Sylvia Pinel

Sylvia Pinel
Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (French: Ministre de l'Egalité des Territoires et du Logement)[1]
In office 2 April 2014 – 11 February 2016
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Manuel Valls
Preceded by	Cécile Duflot
Succeeded by	Emmanuelle Cosse
Personal details
Born	(1977-09-28) 28 September 1977 L'Union, Haute-Garonne
Alma mater	Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Sylvia Pinel (born 28 September 1977 in L'Union, Haute-Garonne) is a politician, member of the National Assembly of France, where she represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department.^[2] Since 3 September 2016, she is the leader of the moderate and social-liberal center-left Radical Party of the Left.

Family and Education

The daughter of cattlemen, Pinel attended Michelet of Montauban, and received a DESS focusing on litigation and arbitration and a DEA in European law at Toulouse at the Toulouse 1 University Capitole, she studied her first year of law school at the university center of Montauban.

Her mother was Deputy Mayor of Fabas, worked with Senator-Mayor radical Pierre Tajan. Her father, Michel Pinel, who died in 2011, was an alderman in Gargas.

Cabinet position

• On 16 May 2012 she was appointed Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, and Tourism at the French Ministry of Productive Recovery by President François Hollande.
• On 18 June 2012 she was appointed Minister for Crafts, Trade, and Tourism at the French Ministry of Productive Recovery.
• On 2 April 2014 she was appointed Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing in the First Valls Government.

References