Xavier BERTRAND, French Minister for Labour, Employment and Health, September, 26th 2011
«I think that this meeting of the Ministers for labour and employment in Paris, as part of the G20, will allow us to make a real step forward in terms of employment, social protection, the respect of rights and consistency of economic and social policy. »
Xavier Bertrand is the Mayor of Saint Quentin (France) since 2010. He has been elected Member of Parliament several times. After having been minister for Health then Labour, Xavier Bertrand has been appointed minister for employment, labour and health in November 2010.
Chris GRAYLING, British Minister of Employment, September, 26th 2011
« It's not just about economics, it's also about people. When President Sarkozy talks about the social challenges that we face, that's how I take his comments. We must not forget that we are dealing not with statistics, not with theories, but actual people's lives. »
Born in 1662, Chris Grayling is a Member of Parliament since 2001. He has held different offices within the Shadow Cabinet between 2003 and 2009. He is Minister for Employment since May 2010.
Julián Andrés DOMINGUEZ, Argentine Minister of Agriculture, June, 22nd 2011
« Each day one billion human beings do not have enough to eat; that is a major challenge. And today, we are here to commit ourselves, we, the agricultural producing countries, to building a new international order and seeking the right responses to that major problem. »
Aged 47, Julian Andrés Dominguez has been appointed Minister of Agriculture in 2009. He has also held different positions within the Argentine government, and has been elected as Mayor and Deputy several times. Julian Andrés Dominguez is a member of the Argentine Justicialist Party.
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Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Agriculture, June, 22nd 2011
« We can't accept agricultural product markets being the least regulated in the world. We can't accept speculation on agricultural markets. Because speculating on agricultural markets means speculating on global hunger. »
Bruno Le Maire is a graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure and the Ecole nationale d'administration. Born in 1969, he has held several elective, ministerial and political offices. He is the French Minister of Agriculture since June 2009, and was before Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs.
Claude GUEANT, French Minister of the Interior, May, 9th 2011
« It's only if we work together that we will be more efficient in stopping drug trafficking »
Graduate of the Ecole nationale d'administration, Prefect, Claude Guéant was appointed chief of staff of President Sarkozy in 2007, after a carreer within the French Ministry of the Interior. He is Minister of the Interior, Overseas France, Local and Regional Authorities and Immigration since February 2011.
Ousmane NGOM, Senegalese Minister of the Interior, May, 9th 2011
« It is important for Africa, and also for other countries, to fight and destroy drug trafficking, which is an international plague »
William HAGUE, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, March, 14th 2011
« The positive use of the internet -- to share information with people, between governments and societies, between different societies and different governments -- and very importantly how to protect people on the internet, and have a shared understanding of freedom on the internet but responsibilities as well... These are very important themes for governments in the coming years, and so I welcome the initiative France has taken by putting this on the agenda »
William Hague is a Member of Parliament since 1989. Beside that, he has been Minister of State for Social Security and Disabled People, Secretary of State for Wales, and Leader of the Conservative Party. He has been Shadow Foreign Secretary before he was appointed First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in May 2010.
Laurent STEFANINI, Secretary General of the French Presidency of the G20 and G8, March, 9th 2011
« We are pretty accustomed to organize such events, because we have had -- for about 40 years now -- presidencies of the European Union, presidencies of the African-French Summit, of the Francophone Movement... So we are accustomed to have huge events like that in our country »
Laurent Stefanini is Ambassador, Chief of Protocol of the French Republic since May 2010, and secretary general of the G20 and G8 French presidencies since November 2010. He was before Ambassador for the environment, in charge of various negotiations in that field and reporting to the French Minister of foreign affairs and the Minister for ecology and sustainable development.
Christine LAGARDE, French Minister of Economy, Industry and Finance, February, 18th 2011
« I am in charge of presiding over the meetings of the Ministers of Finance and the Central Banks Governors. For the Summit, I have as a mission to prepare a certain number of accords and modifications that concern the main priorities of the G20 »
After having worked for the international law firm of Baker and McKenzie, notably as Chairman of the Global Executive Committee, Christine Lagarde joined the government in june 2005 as Minister for Foreign Trade. She then was Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, and became in June 2007 the first woman to hold the post of Finance and Economy Minister of a G7 country. Christine Lagarde is Managing Director of the IMF since July 2011.
Pravin J. GORDHAN, South African Minister of Finance, February, 18th 2011
« We look forward to the French Presidency, and to Nicolas Sarkozy's leadership and Christine Lagarde's leadership as we go forward. »
Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan is an active political figure of South Africa. He was imprisoned on three occasions under the apartheid regime, before being elected as member of Parliament in 1994. He is Chairman of the OECD Forum on tax administration since 2008, and Minister of Finance since 2009.
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