Jeanne Barseghian

Jeanne Barseghian is a French politician who is the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after she successfully led the EELV list in the 2020 municipal election there. Early life Barseghian was born in Suresnes to a French family of Armenian descent. Her great-grandfather was the Armenian intellectual , and her great-grandmother was the writer and Member of the Armenian Parliament Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan. Barseghian studied law at Paris Nanterre University, specializing first in Franco-German law. She then studied environmental law at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, and trained as an ecological advisor at the Institut Eco-Conseil in Strasbourg. Career Barseghian moved to Strasbourg in 2002, to study environmental law. There she became involved in environmental and ecological activism with groups like Alsace Nature (fr). After she completed her legal studies, she advised companies, communities and local groups on economic, social and environmental issues. She worked on topics like the development of sustainable tourism around the Rhine, including for the Alsace Regional Council.