Sylvie Goulard

Sylvie Goulard
Sylvie Goulard in 2019
Deputy Governor of the Banque de France
In office
17 January 2018 – 2 December 2022
GovernorFrançois Villeroy de Galhau
Preceded byDenis Beau
Succeeded byAgnès Bénassy-Quéré
Minister of the Armed Forces
In office
17 May 2017 – 21 June 2017
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byJean-Yves Le Drian
Succeeded byFlorence Parly
Member of the European Parliament
In office
7 June 2009 – 17 May 2017
ConstituencyWest France (2009–2014)
South-East France (2014–2017)
Personal details
Born
Sylvie Grassi

(1964-12-06) 6 December 1964 (age 59)
Marseille, France
Political partyLa République En Marche! (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic Movement (2007–2017)
SpouseGuillaume Goulard
Children3
EducationAix-Marseille University
Sciences Po
École nationale d'administration

Sylvie Goulard (French pronunciation: [silvi ɡulaʁ]; born 6 December 1964) is a French politician and civil servant who served as Deputy Governor of the Banque de France from 2018 to 2022.[1][2]

Prior to this, Goulard briefly served as Minister of the Armed Forces from 17 May to 21 June 2017 in the First Philippe government.

A native of Marseille, Goulard served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for West France from 2009 until 2014. She was reelected in the 2014 election for South-East France. As an MEP she was a member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs and an ALDE group coordinator, as well as a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development between 2009 and 2014 and Committee on Constitutional Affairs between 2014 and 2017. In 2010 she participated in the creation of the Euro-federalist interparliamentarian Spinelli Group. She served as a foreign affairs advisor; Goulard also is a former president of the Mouvement européen-France, the oldest pluralist association defending the European ideal. In 2017, Goulard joined the newly formed En Marche! party.[3]

  1. ^ "Sylvie Goulard appointed deputy governor at Banque de France". Politico Europe. 17 January 2018. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  2. ^ Thibaut Madelin and Édouard Lederer (2 December 2022), Sylvie Goulard démissionne de la Banque de France Les Echos.
  3. ^ "8th parliamentary term – Sylvie GOULARD – MEPs". European Parliament. 6 December 1964. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.