Jeanne Barseghian
French politician
Jeanne Barseghian (French pronunciation: [ʒan baʁseɡjɑ̃]; born 6 December 1980) is a French politician who was the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after she successfully led the EELV list in the 2020 municipal election there.
Early life
Barseghian was born in Suresnes to a French family of Armenian descent. Her great-grandfather was the Armenian intellectual Sarkis Barseghian, and her great-grandmother was the writer and Member of the Armenian Parliament Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan.
Barseghian studied law at Paris Nanterre University, specializing first in Franco-German law. She then studied environmental law at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, and trained as an ecological advisor at the Institut Eco-Conseil in Strasbourg.
Career
Barseghian moved to Strasbourg in 2002, to study environmental law. There she became involved in environmental and ecological activism with groups like Alsace Nature (fr).
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