Christine Lavarde
Christine Lavarde is a French engineer, civil servant and politician. A member of The Republicans, she has been a Senator for Hauts-de-Seine since 2017 French [Senate election|2017]. From 2014 to 2017, she served as a deputy mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt under Mayor Pierre-Christophe Baguet. Lavarde was first elected a municipal councillor of Boulogne-Billancourt in 2008.
Upon her election to the Senate at age 32, she became the youngest French senator in office. She holds "unanimously praised expertise, to the point of becoming essential on budgetary issues".