Mounir Mahjoubi

Mahjoubi announced on March 6, 2019 his candidacy as LREM candidate for the 2020 Paris municipal election. To be able to devote himself to this candidacy, he left the government on March 27 and thus reinstated the National Assembly .

A former President of the French Digital Council until his resignation in January 2017 to join the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron, Mahjoubi also served as a member of the National Assembly from June to July 2017. He worked as digital manager of Macron's campaign team.

On 6 April 2017, Mahjoubi was selected as candidate for the 16th constituency of Paris for the legislative elections, running under La République en marche! label. He ran against Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, who had represented the district as lawmaker for 20 straight years. Mahjoubi later won the seat with 51% of the vote in the second round.

Mahjoubi was nominated Secretary of State for Digital Affairs by Édouard Philippe on 17 May 2017. In a 2018 reshuffle of Philippe's government, Mahjoubi's department has been restructured; he now reports to Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.

Mahjoubi was nominated by François Hollande as Chairman of the Conseil national du numérique in 2016, succeeding Benoît Thieulin. The priority projects of the council under his guidance were the digital transformation of Small and medium-sized enterprises and universities. In 2017, he resigned from the council and joined En Marche! serving as digital manager of Macron's campaign team.

In 2015, Mahjoubi became a qualified cook after completing a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle cuisine course.. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (17 May) 2018, Mahjoubi came out as gay via Twitter.

Mahjoubi was Deputy General Manager for BETC Digital from 2013 to 2016. In September 2016, he founded the "French Bureau", a start-up company that aims to accompany major groups in their innovation process.

Mahjoubi founded Equanum along with Guilhem Chéron and Marc-David Choukroun in 2010, a company which develops and gives farmers and artisans a dedicated Internet platform to sell their product. Mahjoubi left the company in 2012 to work on the Hollande campaign.

Mahjoubi obtained a master's degree in finance and strategy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 2009. He was a member of the Olivaint Conference, one of the oldest and private student societies in French history.

Mahjoubi joined the Socialist Party when he was 18. In 2006, he helped create the "Segosphere" movement to assist 2007 Presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal. He supported Francois Hollande's campaign for the 2012 presidential elections and even worked on it, assisting with the digital aspect.

Mounir Mahjoubi (born 1 March 1984) is a French entrepreneur and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs in the Second Philippe government since June 2017. He previously held the position in the First Philippe government, starting May 2017.

Mounir Mahjoubi was born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to working class Moroccan parents who emigrated in the 1970s from Afourar, Beni Mellal. His father was a decorator and his mother a housekeeper.