Ian Brossat
French politician (born 1980)
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Ian Brossat (French pronunciation: [jan bʁɔsa]; born 23 April 1980) is a French politician and since September 2023 a member of the Senate representing the Communist Party, sitting with the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group.[1][2]
Ian Brossat | |
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 Ian Brossat in 2023. | |
| French senator | |
| Assumed office 2 October 2023 | |
| Parliamentary group | CRCE-K |
| Constituency | Paris |
| Member of the Council of Paris | |
| Assumed office 21 March 2008 | |
| Mayor | Bertrand Delanoë Anne Hidalgo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 April 1980 |
| Party | French Communist Party |
| Spouse |
Brice (m. 2013) |
| Education | Lycée Henri-IV |
| École normale supérieure de Lyon | |
Biography
Ian Brossat is the son of Alain Brossat, a philosopher and professor at University of Paris VIII, and Swedish-born Sylvia Klingberg. Brossat's grandfather Marcus Klingberg was a Polish-born Israeli epidemiologist, veteran of the Red Army and Soviet spy.[3] His maternal grandmother, Adjia Eisman (also known as Wanda Yashinskaya), was a Holocaust survivor all of whose family perished.[4]
From 2008 he was a member of the Paris Council, representing the 18th arrondissement, elected as a Communist.[5] He stood for election to the National Assembly in 2012, losing to Daniel Vaillant.[6]
Brossat graduated from the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Ian Brossat is gay; he married his husband Brice in 2013.[7][8]
