14 Facts About Pap Ndiaye

Pap Ndiaye served as Minister of National Education and Youth in the government of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne between May 2022 and July 2023.

Pap Ndiaye was born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, south of Paris, to a Senegalese father and a French mother.

Pap Ndiaye's sister is the writer Marie NDiaye, winner of the 2009 Prix Goncourt.

Pap Ndiaye graduated from the in 1986, and obtained the Agregation in history.

Pap Ndiaye obtained his PhD in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

From 1991 to 1996, Pap Ndiaye conducted research in the United States as preparation for a thesis about the history of the petrochemical corporation DuPont.

Pap Ndiaye was one of the first researchers in France to compare the history of the African diaspora in France and in the United States.

Together with Patrick Lozes, the future president of the Representative Council of France's Black Associations, Pap Ndiaye co-founded the Action Committee for the Promotion of Diversity in France.

In 2012, Pap Ndiaye became a faculty member at Sciences Po.

Pap Ndiaye has been a member of the Centre d'etudes nord-americaines and has been an editor of the journal L'Histoire.

In February 2021, Pap Ndiaye was made director of the French national museum of immigration.

In May 2022, Pap Ndiaye was designated the new Minister of National Education and Youth by President Emmanuel Macron in Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's government.

Pap Ndiaye had previously been a critic of Macron, stating in 2019: "it is difficult to discern a policy, or even a consistent point of view".

In 2017, Pap Ndiaye had comments on structural racism in France, explaining that according to him there is racism in the State, which can be found in some institutions like police, but it's not a racism from the State In a 2021 interview with Le Monde, Pap Ndiaye stated he did not experience racism growing up in France and only "realised that [he] was black" when he was 25 while studying in the United States.