Antoine Armand

Antoine Armand
Armand in 2023
Minister of the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 September 2024
Prime Minister	Michel Barnier
Preceded by	Bruno Le Maire
Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Savoie's 2nd constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 June 2022
Preceded by	Jacques Rey
Personal details
Born	(1991-09-10) 10 September 1991 Paris, France
Political party	Renaissance
Relations	Louis Armand (great-grandfather)
Education	Lycée Henri-IV
Alma mater	Paris-Sorbonne University Paris School of Economics École normale supérieure École nationale d'administration
Occupation	Civil servant

Antoine Armand (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan aʁmɑ̃]; born 10 September 1991) is a French civil servant and politician who has served as the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty since 2024. He previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Haute-Savoie department in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024. A member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!), he served as the president of the National Assembly Committee on Economic Affairs from 2022 to 2024.

In September 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Armand as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty. At 33 years old, Armand became one of the youngest ministers to hold this position in recent French history. His appointment came at a time when the government faced economic challenges and the need for fiscal management.

Family

He is the great-grandson of engineer, senior civil servant and French Resistance fighter Louis Armand (1905-1971), former Chairman of the SNCF, France's national state-owned railway company. He would become President of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) from 1958 to 1959. He was elected member of the Académie française in 1963.

Education

Following a high school education at the prestigious Lycée Camille Sée, Antoine Armand studied at the economics and literary Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles ('Higher school preparatory classes' at the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV in Paris (2009-2011).

After a national exam, he read economics at the École normale supérieure de Paris (2011-2015). At the same time, he pursued a 2-year master's degree at the Paris School of Economics, his thesis focusing on German ordoliberalism (2012-2014). He also graduated from the Sorbonne in 2012 with a bachelor degree in philosophy. In 2015, he obtained a research master's degree in international relations at the Sorbonne (2013-2015), on the German responsibility for the Armenian genocide.

After another exam, he entered the École nationale d'administration (class of Georges Clemenceau, 2017-2018), a school training future senior civil cervants (many of them also become ministers, bankers, and Presidents).

Political career

Prior to his political career, Armand worked as a civil servant at the General Inspectorate of Finance.

He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2nd constituency of Haute-Savoie in 2022, after incumbent Jacques Rey chose not to run for a full term. He was reelected in the 2024 snap election. In Parliament, Armand has served on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In 2024, he was elected as its president for the newly-opened 17th legislature of the French Fifth Republic.

In addition to his committee assignments, Armand has been a member of the French delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022. He is also a member of the French-German parliamentary friendship group, the French-Italian parliamentary friendship group and the French-Swiss parliamentary friendship group.

See also

• 2022 French legislative election