1. Pascal Canfin previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012.
13 Facts About Pascal Canfin
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From July 2014 to December 2015, Pascal Canfin was the Senior Advisor on Climate at World Resources Institute, ranked the most influential think tank in the world on environmental issues, on the preparation of the International climate summit to be held in Paris in December 2015.
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Pascal Canfin graduated initially from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies and then from Newcastle University.
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Between 2003 and 2009, Pascal Canfin worked as journalist for the monthly magazine Alternatives economiques and a specialist for questions linked to the environment, social economy as well as corporate social responsibility.
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Alongside his journalistic work, Pascal Canfin got politically involved with the Greens in France.
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Pascal Canfin was responsible for the party's Economic, Social and Public Services Committee between 2005 and 2009.
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At the 2009 European elections, Pascal Canfin was third candidate on the list put up by Europe Ecologie, an electoral alliance of which the Greens were part, in Ile-de-France, behind Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly.
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Pascal Canfin was a Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee for the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis, a member of the Special Committee on Organised Crime in the EU, and a Vice-Chairman of the Public Services Intergroup.
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Pascal Canfin was the rapporteur on the regulation of short selling and credit default swaps.
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Pascal Canfin's report was discussed in the Economic Affairs Committee in January 2011, and voted as such in the Plenary Session in July 2011.
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Pascal Canfin was joined by about one hundred European, national and regional elected representatives within the European Union.
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On 16 May 2012, Pascal Canfin left the European Parliament and was nominated by President Francois Hollande as Delegated Minister in charge of development with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under minister Laurent Fabius.
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Pascal Canfin considers development policy as closely tied up with sustainable development aims.