Ădouard Geffray
Ădouard Geffray | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Minister of National Education | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | SĂ©bastien Lecornu |
| Preceded by | Ălisabeth Borne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ădouard Jean Gabriel Geffray 2 October 1978 Ăpinay-sur-Seine, France |
| Party | Independent |
| Education | Paris-Sorbonne University Sciences Po Ăcole nationale d'administration |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
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Ădouard Jean Gabriel Geffray (French pronunciation: [edwaÊ ÊefÊÉ]; born 2 October 1978) is a French senior civil servant and politician who has served as Minister of National Education in the second government of Prime Minister SĂ©bastien Lecornu since 2025.[1] From 2019 to 2024, he served as director general of school education.[2]
Career
[edit]In 2017, Geffray was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of Justice, François Bayrou. He was subsequently appointed Director-General of Human Resources at the Ministry of National Education and then, from 2019 onward, Director-General for School Education (DGESCO).[3] In this position, he worked, under the authority of the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, on the implementation of a reform of French high-school degrees and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in schools and, under that of Gabriel Attal, on the introduction of "needs-based groups" in lower secondary schools.
In 2021, Geffray was a candidate for the directorship of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po); the post eventually went to Mathias Vicherat.[4] Having left the position of DGESCO in July 2024, Geffray returned to the Council of State in September 2024.[4] In this capacity, he submitted to the government a report on film education in schools in September 2025.
Minister of National Education
[edit]In October 2025, he was appointed Minister of National Education in the second government of Prime Minister SĂ©bastien Lecornu. In office, he has faced the 2026 French student protests.
Honours
[edit]- Knight of the Legion of Honour (2023)[5]
- Knight of the Ordre national du MĂ©rite (2016)[6]
- Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (2019)
References
[edit]- â "Gouvernement de SĂ©bastien Lecornu: Ădouard Geffray, directeur gĂ©nĂ©ral de l'Enseignement scolaire, est pressenti pour le poste de ministre de l'Ăducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supĂ©rieur et de la Recherche" (in French). BFM TV. 12 October 2025.
- â "Gouvernement Lecornu IIÂ : voici qui est Ădouard Geffray, le nouveau ministre de l'Ăducation nationale". Actu.fr (in French). 12 October 2025.
- â Violaine Morin and Mattea Battaglia (25 July 2019), Edouard Geffray, de la DRH au poste de numĂ©ro 2 de lâĂ©ducation nationale Le Monde (in French).
- 1 2 Caroline Beyer (13 October 2025), Ănarque, n°2 rue de Grenelle pendant cinq ans... Qui est Ădouard Geffray, le nouveau ministre de lâĂducation nationale ? Le Figaro (in French).
- â "DĂ©cret du 29 dĂ©cembre 2023 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la LĂ©gion d'honneur". LĂ©gifrance (in French).
- â "DĂ©cret du 14 novembre 2016 portant promotion et nomination". LĂ©gifrance (in French).
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Ministers of national education of France
- Members of the second Lecornu government
- 21st-century French civil servants
- 21st-century French politicians
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- French recipients of the Legion of Honour
- Knights of the Ordre national du MĂ©rite
- Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
- Sciences Po alumni
- Ăcole nationale d'administration alumni
