12 Facts About Sylvie Guillaume

Sylvie Guillaume was born on 11 June 1962 and is a French politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2024.

Sylvie Guillaume is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Sylvie Guillaume has held various responsibilities within the party, including that of president of the Socialists' national council between 2000 and 2003.

Sylvie Guillaume was reelected in 2004 and held her seat until her resignation in 2009 following her election to the European Parliament.

Sylvie Guillaume was reelected at the same position in 2014.

Sylvie Guillaume has been serving on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs since 2009, where she is in charge of human rights.

Sylvie Guillaume is a substitute member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Between January 2012 and 2014, Sylvie Guillaume served as Vice President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group in charge of Citizens' Europe, along with Veronique De Keyser, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Stephen Hughes, Rovana Plumb, Bernhard Rapkay, Libor Roucek, Patrizia Toia and Marita Ulvskog.

In 2012 Sylvie Guillaume was responsible for immigration issues in the presidential campaign of Francois Hollande.

From 2014 until 2019, Sylvie Guillaume served as one of the Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, under the leadership of President Antonio Tajani.

In 2020, Sylvie Guillaume joined Mounir Satouri, Frederique Dumas and Hubert Julien-Laferriere in visiting several refugee camps in northern Syria that hold individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including al-Hawl and Roj.

Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Sylvie Guillaume publicly declared her support for Anne Hidalgo as the Socialists' candidate and joined her campaign team as diplomatic adviser.