Olivia Grégoire


Olivia Grégoire is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the twelfth constituency of Paris since 2017. A member of La République En Marche!, she defeated incumbent Philippe Goujon by 56.4% to 43.6%.

Early life and career

Grégoire gained a bachelor's degree in history from Paris-Nanterre University. She then graduated from Sciences Po in 2001, the same year as Emmanuel Macron, and completed a master's degree in marketing at ESSEC Business School in 2002.
From 2002-5 Grégoire worked for the press office of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and from 2005-7 as an adviser and strategist for Health Minister Xavier Bertrand. Between 2007 and 2014 she worked in communications and marketing for the multinational companies DDB Worldwide, Havas and Saint-Gobain, and for the government communications agency Etalab. She founded Olicare, a communications and strategy consultancy, in 2014.

Political career

Grégoire joined Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! movement in March 2016, a month before it was publicly launched, and was involved in designing the movement’s policies on health-care. In the 2017 legislative elections she was elected with 56.36% of the vote, defeating Philippe Goujon of The Republicans.
Grégoire is currently a spokesperson for the parliamentary group of En Marche! and is a member of the Finance Commission, a parliamentary committee that scrutinizes public spending. At the beginning of the term, Grégoire and Valérie Oppelt launched an informal group of around 50 LREM members in support of strengthening entrepreneurship.

Political positions

In July 2019, Grégoire voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada.