Emmanuel GRÉGOIRE

Bio

Emmanuel Grégoire became Mayor of Paris following his election by the Paris Council on 29 March 2026.

Born on 24 December 1977 in Les Lilas, a town just north of Paris, he grew up in a traditionally progressive family. He spent his childhood in the Paris suburbs and his teenage years in southwestern France. He later studied at the Institute of Political Sciences in Bordeaux and also earned a degree in philosophy, before fulfilling a longheld aspiration: settling in Paris.

He joined the Socialist Party in 2002, determined to oppose the rise of extremism. In 2010, Emmanuel Grégoire became chief of staff to Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and later to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, a position he held until April 2014. Alongside his political work, he served as a partner at the healthcare consulting firm B2Ge Conseil from 2008 to 2016.

Elected in the Parisian 12th arrondissement during the 2014 municipal elections, he served as deputy to Paris’s newly elected mayor, Anne Hidalgo—first for human resources, public services, and administrative modernization (2014–2017), and subsequently responsible for budget and transformation of public policies (2017–2018).

He was appointed First deputy to Anne Hidalgo on 24 September 2018, for urban planning. As such, he rallied the different factions of the municipal majority to support a new “bioclimatic” local urban plan, which sought to balance the creation of green spaces with the need for affordable housing. His career later took on a national dimension when, in the 2024 legislative elections, he won Paris’s seventh electoral district in the first round and became its parliament member. On 19 November 2024, he announced his candidacy for the 2026 Paris municipal election.

Upon taking office, he convened a special session of the Paris Council to outline the main priorities of his term: reforming afterschool programs, combating exclusion, implementing a plan “no child living on the street”, addressing speculation and vacant housing—including through the work of the housing protection brigade—and resuming discussions with Paris SaintGermain soccer team owner regarding the future of the Parc des Princes stadium.