page_title: Cédric Villani
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Cédric Villani / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Wearing his usual lavallière tie and spider accessory, plus a seemingly new blue pin, not sure what its meaning is? Notice the EU flag in the background, which was one of the topics of the meeting. Picture taken towards the beginning of the speech, to which he arrived late due to a previous visit to a French school.
context_page_description: Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 to 2017.
  Villani has given two lectures at the Royal Institution, the first titled 'Birth of a Theorem'. The English translation of his book Théorème vivant has the same title. His second lecture at the Royal Institution is titled 'The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash'.
  Villani was elected as the deputy for Essonne's 5th constituency in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, during the 2017 legislative election. He was elected as a member of La République En Marche!, but in May 2020 left the party to form a new party, Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity. He was elected Vice President of the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices in July 2017.
context_section_description: In 2017, it was announced that Villani had been selected as a candidate for En Marche! (LREM) in the 2017 French legislative election, for Essonne's 5th constituency. In the first round of voting, Villani obtained 47% of the vote and was thus strongly placed for the second round which he won with 69.36% of the vote.
  In 2019, Villani applied to be selected to lead the LREM candidate slate for the 2020 Paris election. By July 2019, he was one of three LREM candidates, all deputies in the National Assembly, still seeking the position; the other two were Benjamin Griveaux (who had been the government spokesperson) and Hugues Renson (who had been the vice-president of the National Assembly). On 10 July, the nomination committee picked Griveaux. On September 4th, Villani officially announced his candidacy for the municipal election.
caption: Cédric Villani at a public meeting of En Marche in Tokyo
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