18 Facts About Mounir Mahjoubi

Mounir Mahjoubi was born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to working class Moroccan parents who emigrated in the 1970s from Afourar, Beni Mellal.

Mounir Mahjoubi's father was a decorator and his mother a housekeeper.

Mounir Mahjoubi was very technological as a child and even won an Young Inventors competition organized by children's science magazine, Science et Vie Junior He was employed by internet provider, Club Internet, when he was 16 and the company eventually training him to be a network technician.

Mounir Mahjoubi was employed as a trade union representative for the union, CFDT.

Mounir Mahjoubi obtained a master's degree in finance and strategy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 2009.

Mounir Mahjoubi was a member of the Olivaint Conference, one of the oldest and private student societies in French history.

Mounir Mahjoubi founded Equanum along with Guilhem Cheron and Marc-David Choukroun in 2010, a company which develops and gives farmers and artisans a dedicated Internet platform to sell their product.

Mounir Mahjoubi left the company in 2012 to work on the Hollande campaign.

Mounir Mahjoubi was Deputy General Manager for BETC Digital from 2013 to 2016.

Mounir Mahjoubi supported Francois Hollande's campaign for the 2012 presidential elections and even worked on it, assisting with the digital aspect.

Mounir Mahjoubi was nominated by President Hollande as Chairman of the Conseil national du numerique in 2016, succeeding Benoit Thieulin.

Mounir Mahjoubi ran against Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, who had represented the district as lawmaker for 20 straight years.

Mounir Mahjoubi was nominated Secretary of State for Digital Affairs by Edouard Philippe on 17 May 2017.

Mounir Mahjoubi announced on 6 March 2019 his candidacy as LREM candidate for the 2020 Paris municipal election.

Mounir Mahjoubi subsequently served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mounir Mahjoubi did not compete in the 2022 legislative election.

At a parliamentary hearing in 2020, Mounir Mahjoubi criticized the head of Amazon's France unit that the latter was "taking the piss" after telling a parliamentary committee that the company paid the French state 420 million euros in 2019 and had sales of 5.7 billion euros.

In 2015, Mounir Mahjoubi became a qualified cook after completing a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle cuisine course.