Benjamin Haddad

Training and career

Benjamin Haddad is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and HEC School of Management. He is a researcher in international relations, which he has taught at Sciences Po. After his studies, he worked for seven years in think tanks in Washington, including as Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center from 2019 to 2022.

He is the author of Le Paradis perdu : L’Amérique de Trump et la fin des illusions européennes (Paradise Lost: Trump’s America and the End of European Illusions, Grasset, 2019), in which he advocated for European strategic autonomy and sovereignty in the face of new geopolitical threats and US withdrawal. He won the 2019 L’Express-BFM Best Essay prize.

Political career

He was first National Secretary of the UMP party from 2011 to 2014.
In 2017, he represented the La République en Marche party in Washington, DC.
He was elected to the National Assembly in June 2022 (14th constituency of Paris) and became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the European Affairs Committee, as well as coordinator of the Renaissance group’s spokespeople.

During this first term, he:

• Drafted a resolution calling for France and the European Union to add the Wagner private military company to the list of terrorist organizations;
• Was rapporteur of the joint committee of the two parliamentary chambers for the bill on the prevention of the dissemination of terrorist content online;
• Chaired the commission of inquiry on the Uber Files revelations: uberization, lobbying and their consequences;
• Was co-rapporteur of the study report on the European Union and the migration challenge;
• Chaired the France-Ukraine friendship group at the National Assembly and was Deputy Chair of the France-Poland friendship group;
• Was a member of study groups on antisemitism, Kurds, Eastern Christians, Francophonie and the conditions experienced by migrants and unaccompanied minors.

On 7 July 2024, he was re-elected in the 14th constituency of Paris in the early legislative elections.

On 21 September 2024, he was appointed Minister Delegate for Europe.