Gabriel Attal

Gabriel Attal (born 16 March 1989) is a French politician of the Renaissance party who has served as Minister of National Education and Youth in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since July 2023. He was the government spokesperson from 2020 to 2022 and Minister of Public Action and Accounts between 2022 and 2023 under President Emmanuel Macron. Early life and education Attal was born on 16 March 1989 in Clamart. He grew up in the 13th and 14th arrondissements (districts) of Paris with three sisters. His father, Yves Attal, was a lawyer and film producer of half Alsatian Jewish and half Tunisian Jewish descent, and his mother, Marie de Couriss, was of French and Greek-Russian ancestry and worked as an employee of a film production company. Attal attended a private school, the École alsacienne, in the 6th arrondissement. His political activity started when he participated in the 2006 youth protests in France. Taking up a place at Sciences Po in 2007, he created a committee for the support of Íngrid Betancourt, the Franco-Colombian hostage held by the FARC. He graduated from Sciences Po in 2012 with a Master of Public Affairs, having studied law at Panthéon-Assas University from 2008 to 2011, with a year (2009-2010) spent working with Éric de Chassey, director of the French Academy at Rome. After an internship at the French National Assembly with Marisol Touraine during the presidential campaign, Gabriel Attal worked for five years as an advisor to the Minister of Health, a role which involved parliamentary liaison and speechwriting.