Élisabeth Borne
Élisabeth Borne (born 18 April 1961) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. Career in the public sector. Borne worked as director of urban planning for the City of Paris from 2008 until 2013. In 2013 she was appointed Prefect of Vienne and the Region of Poitou-Charentes, the first woman to occupy that position. From 2014 until 2015, she served as private secretary to Ségolène Royal, then Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and  Energy. Borne subsequently was the chief executive officer of RATP Group, a state-owned enterprise providing services in the field of public transport, from 2015 to 2017. Political career. A long-time member of the Socialist Party (PS), Borne voted for Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 French presidential election and later joined La République En Marche! (LREM). Borne was Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (2019–2020) after serving as Minister of Transport (2017–2019) in the First and Second Philippe government. In 2020, Élisabeth Borne was appointed Minister of Labour, Employment and Economic Inclusion in the government of Prime Minister  Jean Castex, succeeding Muriel Pénicaud. Political positions. In 2019, Borne opposed France's ratification of the European Union–Mercosur free trade agreement.