Former Prime Minister of France

Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN was born in 1948 in Poitiers. He graduated from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), he has been a senior lecturer at the Institut d’Études Politiques of Paris. Since 2007, he is a lecturer at ESCP Europe. Responsibilities at national level :Since 1988, youngest President of region, he spent 18 years at the head of the regional executive of Poitou-Charentes. He was European Parliamentary, Quaestors, and President of Association of French Regions. From 1995 to 1997, he was Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Craft. Prime minister of Jacques Chirac from May 2002 to May 2005. He was Senator of Vienne from 1995 to 2017. He was Vice-President of Senate from March 2011 to September 2014. He was also Chairman of the Senate’s foreign affairs, defence and armed forces commission from October 2014 to July 2017. Since the beginning of his political involvement, he is a member of governing bodies of Center-Right political family. International activities :Board member of the BOAO Forum (Asia); Chairman of Foundation Prospective and Innovation; Chairman of France—China Committee Annual Forum; Chairman of the organisation “Leaders for Peace” ; Board member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai; Board member of the “Praemium Imperial” – Tokyo; President of the Republic’s personal representative for Francophony from 2009 to 2012; Several presidential missions, including the one related to economic relations with Algeria. French Special Representative for China (since January 2018). Latest publications :Ce que la Chine nous a appris, book in chinese written with Anne-Marie Raffarin, 2010; Je marcherai toujours à l’affectif, Flammarion 2012