Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French: [emanɥɛl ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl fʁedeʁik makʁɔ̃];

born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as president of France
since 14 May 2017. Born in Amiens, he studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre
University, later completing a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and
graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. Macron worked as a
senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an
investment banker at Rothschild & Co.

Macron was appointed a deputy secretary general by President François Hollande

shortly after his election in May 2012, making Macron one of Hollande's senior
advisers. He was later appointed to the French cabinet as Minister of the Economy,
Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 by prime minister Manuel Valls. In this
role, Macron championed a number of business-friendly reforms. He resigned from the
cabinet in August 2016, launching a campaign for the 2017 French presidential
election. Although Macron had been a member of the Socialist Party from 2006 to
2009, he ran in the election under the banner of En Marche!, a centrist and pro-
European political movement he founded in April 2016.

Partly thanks to the Fillon affair, Macron topped the ballot in the first round of
voting, and was elected President of France on 7 May 2017 with 66.1% of the vote in
the second round, defeating Marine Le Pen. At the age of 39, Macron became the
youngest president in French history. In the 2017 French legislative election in
June, Macron's party, renamed La République En Marche (LREM), secured a majority in
the National Assembly. He appointed Édouard Philippe as prime minister until his
resignation in 2020, when he appointed Jean Castex. Macron was elected to a second
term in the 2022 presidential election, again defeating Le Pen, thus becoming the
first French presidential candidate to win re-election since 2002.[1] Ex officio,
he is also the Co-Prince of Andorra.

During his presidency, Macron has overseen several reforms to labour laws,
taxation, and pensions, and pursued a renewable energy transition. Opposition to
his domestic reforms, particularly a proposed fuel tax, culminated in the 2018
yellow vests protests and other protests. From 2020, he has led France's ongoing
response to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination rollout. In foreign policy, he
called for reforms to the European Union, and signed bilateral treaties with Italy
and Germany. He also oversaw a dispute with Australia and the United States over
the AUKUS security pact, continued French involvement in the Syrian civil war, and
joined in the international response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.