Loïc Bouvard
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Member of the National Assembly for Morbihan's 4th constituency | |
In office 1988–2012 | |
Succeeded by | Paul Molac |
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Born | Tours, France | 20 January 1929
Died | 27 November 2017 Saint-Marcel, France | (aged 88)
Alma mater | Sciences Po Princeton University |
Loïc Bouvard (20 January 1929 – 27 November 2017) was a member of the National Assembly of France.[1] He represented the Morbihan department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.[1]
Personal. Loic Bouvard married Elizabeth Bouvard in 1969 in Reading. They have 5 children and 15 grand children. Loic Bouvard's father, Michel Bouvard, was a 4-Star General in the French Air Force, who liberated Toulon during World War II, and led the Air Force's Secret Services. Loic Bouvard's mother was Andrée Caron. He spent his childhood between Rio in Brazil where his father was assigned, Brittany where his father's family came from, and both Massillon in Central France and Paris where he studied after WWII.
After graduating from the Sciences Po and getting a law degree from the Sorbonne University, Loic Bouvard received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Princeton University where he received a PhD in just 2 years.
Career
Loic Bouvard's career included:
- Working at Air France in New York as a special Assistant to the CEO for the Americas
- Cofounding the office of McKinsey in Paris
- Founding his own consulting firm, Loic Bouvard, Inc.
- Being elected 9 consecutive times to the French Parliament over 39 years from 1973 to 2012
- Being the Vice President of the French Parliament. Here is a video of Loic Bouvard opening the French National Assembly
- Presiding the Assembly of the NATO from 1992 to 1994. Loïc Bouvard joined the Assembly in 1978. He was one of the leading figures who steered the Assembly through the transformative years of the end of the Cold War. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the NATO PA partnerships at the end of the Cold War, in 2012 the Assembly created the “Loïc Bouvard” scholarship.[2]
Death
He died on 27 November 2017, aged 88.
References
- ^ a b Office of the Secretary General (2012). "Loïc Bouvard". Assemblee-nationale.fr (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "NATO PA". The NATO PA mourns the loss of its former President Loïc Bouvard | NATO PA. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
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