Azouz Begag

Azouz Begag
عزوز بقاق
Azouz Begag in 2007
Delegate minister for equal opportunities
In office
2 June 2005 – 5 April 2007
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterDominique de Villepin
Personal details
Born (1957-02-05) 5 February 1957 (age 67)
Lyon, Rhône, France
Alma materLumière University Lyon 2

Azouz Begag (Arabic: عزوز بقاق) (born 5 February 1957) is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) till 5 April 2007. He resigned to support the moderate centrist candidate François Bayrou, one of the two UMP ministers to do so.

Before becoming minister, Begag was decorated and made Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite and Knight of the Legion of Honor.