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French research minister appointed

Geneviève Fioraso, deputy mayor of Grenoble, and a Socialist member of the National Assembly (the French parliament), representing the Isère constituency, has been appointed minister of higher education and research in the first goverment of French president François Hollande and prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. Fioraso is no stranger to research and innovation issues, which has been her speciality both as a member of parliament, and as deputy mayor of Grenoble, while she is also a member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices. Most recently, she was rapporteur of the office’s February report on the challenges of synthetic biology. She was also part of the group of advisers on innovation in François Hollande’s election campaign team. 

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