predecessor birth_place nationality party office birth_date term_start image article_title alma_mater
philippe duron nogent-le-rotrou , france french socialist party president of the regional council of lower normandy 24 june 1952 3 april 2008 laurent beauvais-2010 . jpg laurent beauvais
 university university of caen , sciences po , paris dauphine
laurent beauvais

laurent beauvais -lrb- born 24 june 1952 -rrb- is a french politician and the incumbent president of the regional council of basse-normandie .
he is a member of the socialist party .
born in nogent-le-rotrou , eure-et-loir , he grew up in Évreux then mortrée near argentan -lrb- orne -rrb- .
he joined the socialist party at age 21 and he was elected to the mortrée municipal council in 1977 .
he worked in the cabinets of various socialist research ministers , and was a member of the french national centre for scientific research -lrb- cnrs -rrb- .
he did not run for re-election in mortrée in 1989 , choosing to run on the list of françois doubin -lrb- mrg -rrb- in argentan .
following doubin 's election , be became deputy mayor .
elected opposition regional councillor in 1998 , elected to lead the `` communauté de communes '' of argentan in 2001 , he finally became vice-president of the basse-normandie regional council ; responsible for education , higher education and research under socialist president philippe duron .
following philippe duron 's election as mayor of caen , he succeeded him as president of the regional council .
he will run for a full term in his own right as the ps ' top candidate in the region in the 2010 regional elections .
