Loïc Bouvard


Loïc Bouvard was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Morbihan department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Personal.
Loic Bouvard married Elizabeth Bouvard in 1969 in Resding. They have 5 children and 15 grand children. Loic Bouvard's father, Michel Bouvard, was a 4-Star General in the French Air Force, who liberated Toulon during WWII and led the Air Force's Secret Services. Loic Bouvard's mother was Andrée Caron. He spent his childhood between Rio in Brazil where his father was assigned, Britany where his father's family came from, and both Massillon in Central France and Paris where he studied after WWII.
After graduating from the Sciences Po and getting a Law degree from the Sorbonne University, Loic Bouvard received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Princeton University where he received a PhD in just 2 years.
Career.
Loic Bouvard's career included:
- Working at Air France in New York as a special Assistant to the CEO for the Americas
- Cofounding the office of McKinsey in Paris
- Founding his own consulting firm, Loic Bouvard, Inc.
- Being elected 9 consecutive times to the French Parliament over 39 years from 1973 to 2012
- Being the Vice President of the French Parliament,
- Presiding the Assembly of the NATO from 1992 to 1994. Loïc Bouvard joined the Assembly in 1978. He was one of the leading figures who steered the Assembly through the transformative years of the end of the Cold War. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the NATO PA partnerships at the end of the Cold War, in 2012 the Assembly created the “Loïc Bouvard” scholarship. https://www.nato-pa.int/news/nato-pa-mourns-loss-its-former-president-loic-bouvard.
He died on November 27th 2017, aged 88.