1. Benjamin Griveaux's father is a notary and his mother is a barrister.
20 Facts About Benjamin Griveaux
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Benjamin Griveaux studied at Sciences Po, where he was vice-president of the student union and founded a student magazine called L'Autodafe.
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Benjamin Griveaux graduated in 1999 and continued his studies at HEC Paris, earning a master's degree in 2001.
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Benjamin Griveaux failed to gain admission to the Ecole nationale d'administration.
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Between 2003 and 2008 Benjamin Griveaux began working for A Gauche en Europe, a think-tank founded by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and directed by Michel Rocard.
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Benjamin Griveaux worked as an adviser to Strauss-Kahn and supported his unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Socialist Party in 2006.
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Benjamin Griveaux founded Mediane Conseil, a recruitment consultancy, the same year.
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In 2008, Benjamin Griveaux stood as a Socialist in both the municipal and departmental elections in Chalon-sur-Saone, which took place simultaneously that year.
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Benjamin Griveaux succeeded in winning a seat as both a municipal councilor for Chalon-sur-Saone and a departmental councilor for Saone-et-Loire.
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Benjamin Griveaux later became vice-president of the Departmental Council, which was then led by Arnaud Montebourg.
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In 2014 Benjamin Griveaux renounced his mandates in order to take up a post with the commercial real estate company Unibail, prompting criticism from a local official.
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Benjamin Griveaux met Emmanuel Macron in December 2015 through their mutual contact with Ismael Emelien.
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Benjamin Griveaux has frequently been described in media as one of Macron's closest political allies.
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On 21 June 2017, Benjamin Griveaux was appointed to the second Philippe government as a secretary of state at the Finance and Economy Ministry, a newly created role.
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The Huffington Post reported the extent of Benjamin Griveaux's remit is unclear, and that he will serve as deputy or assistant to Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
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In March 2019, Benjamin Griveaux resigned from the office of spokesman in order to run in the Paris mayor's election.
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In February 2020 Benjamin Griveaux abandoned his bid to become mayor of Paris after it was alleged that he had "exchanged intimate mobile phone messages with a young woman and sent her an explicit video of himself masturbating", which was later posted online by Petr Pavlensky.
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Pavlensky said that Benjamin Griveaux was "only the first politician that he would target: he had only just begun".
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In May 2021, Benjamin Griveaux resigned his parliamentary seat and instead announced leaving active politics.
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In January 2019, Benjamin Griveaux had to escape his office after protesters broke into the compound and smashed up vehicles during the broader Yellow vests movement.