Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron is the 25th President of France. Macron grew up in a family of doctors, attended the Jesuit college in Amiens and the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, and studied at the University of Paris-Nanterre and Sciences Po. As an editorial assistant, Macron helped Paul Ricoeur with La Mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli (2000), one of his most important books, and he graduated on Machiavelli and Hegel. He was author and member of the editorial board at the intellectual journal Esprit. Macron began his political career in the Parti Socialiste and was Minister of Economics under President François Hollande. In 2016, he launched his own political movement En Marche! – now ‘Renaissance’ – and wrote the book Révolution, which sold almost 200,000 copies. Macron ran in the 2017 presidential election, defeating Marine Le Pen, with 66.1% of the votes, to become the youngest ever French president. At the start of his presidency, Macron delivered two major speeches – one at the foot of the Acropolis and one at the Sorbonne – in which he stressed the importance of European humanism, referring to George Steiner’s famous 2003 Nexus Lecture, The Idea of Europe. In 2022, as the first French president since 2002 and with 58.55% of the votes, he was re-elected. As head of state of France, President Macron remains committed to a sovereign, united and democratic Europe.