Édouard Geffray

Édouard Jean Gabriel Geffray is a French senior civil servant and politician who has served as minister of national education in the second government of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu since 2025. From 2019 to 2024, he served as director general of school education.

Career

In 2017, Geffray was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of Justice, François Bayrou. He was subsequently appointed Director-General of Human Resources at the Ministry of National Education and then, from 2019 onward, Director-General for School Education. In this position, he worked, under the authority of the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, on the implementation of a reform of French high school degrees and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in schools and, under that of Gabriel Attal, on the introduction of "needs-based groups" in lower secondary schools.
In 2021, Geffray was a candidate for the directorship of the Paris Institute of Political Studies ; the post eventually went to Mathias Vicherat.
Having left the position of DGESCO in July 2024, Geffray returned to the Council of State in September 2024. In this capacity, he submitted to the government a report on film education in schools in September 2025.
In October 2025, he was appointed Minister of National Education.