Élisabeth Borne

French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from May 2022 to January 2024, becoming the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister and the first in 30 years. Since December 2024, she has served as Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research in the Bayrou government. She is a member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance.

She was born to a father of Russian Jewish descent who died when she was 11 years old.

She served as the Minister in charge of Transport in the Philippe Government from 2017 to 2019, then as Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition from 2019 to 2020.

She was the CEO of RATP Group, a state-owned enterprise providing services in the field of public transport, from 2015 to 2017.

On 14 March 2021 she tested positive to COVID-19, and she was hospitalized on 22 March.

On 16 May 2022, she was named Prime Minister by President Macron, succeeding Jean Castex.

In December 2024, she returned to the cabinet as Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research

Borne is of Jewish descent. She married Olivier Allix, a lecturer and also an engineer, on 30 June 1989 with whom she later had a son, Nathan. The couple has since divorced.