He will form a pair with Geneviève Darrieussecq, appointed Minister Delegate to Disableds. Member of the Modem, she was Minister of Veterans Affairs during the first five-year term.
Le Monde
He takes ministerial functions for the first time. Jean-Christophe Combe, director general of the Red Cross, was appointed Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities in the second Borne government on Monday, July 4. He takes over from Damien Abad, targeted by a preliminary investigation for attempted rape and ousted from the government after several weeks of controversy.
m. Combe will form a pair with Geneviève Darrieussecq, member of the Modem and former Minister of Veterans During the first five-year term, who is appointed Minister Delegate to the Disableds.
“I am a magnitude of the task, he declared when the powers are passed on Monday at midday. We are here at the Ministry of Vulnerabilities, I believe for my part that these vulnerabilities are A chance for our company. “
“Nothing can be done without relying on those concerned,” he said, as a promise of listening and dialogue with all the players in the sector, after having listed the “challenges to be met “:
Better reconcile family and professional life, supporting isolated parents, fighting the poverty of children, allowing the elderly to age better and stay as long as possible at home.
no stranger to the world political
With the academic Pap Ndiaye in national education and the emergency artist François Braun in Health, Jean-Christophe Combe, 40, is the third big figure in civil society within the Borne government. However, he is no stranger to the political world. He began his career as a technical advisor to the Senate Union centrist group. After a brief passage within the Deloitte audit firm, he also worked for several years with UMP elected officials and then the Republicans (LR). A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, he was notably director of the cabinet of Bruno Bourg-Broc between 2007 and 2009, when the latter was a deputy for the Marne and mayor of Châlons-en-Champagne.
From 2009 to 2011, he was Director of Cabinet of Emmanuel Lamy, LR mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, before joining the cabinet of the president of the French Red Cross, Jean-François Mattéi, in 2011 . He held several functions there, including the Directorate of Commitment and Associative Life, before becoming the Director General, in 2017, of this mastodon of the humanitarian aid which has more than 62,000 volunteers and 17,000 employees.
“I have always been interested in the public and political thing”, he declared to Le Figaro of his appointment. The forties says he is interested in history and politics. In 2021, he published an essay, humanity was not negotiated, prefaced by the Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus. Written in terms of his experience in the management of the COVID Crisis, Jean-Christophe Combe pleads for “a society of social ties”, “a local society”, “a society of care”, “a prepared company” , “a human society”.