Thomas Gassilloud

Thomas Gassilloud
Gassilloud in 2023
Member of the National Assembly
for Rhône's 10th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byChristophe Guilloteau
Mayor of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise
In office
30 March 2014 – 17 July 2017
Preceded byRoger Peillon
Succeeded byJérôme Banino
Personal details
Born (1981-05-21) 21 May 1981 (age 43)
Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, France
Political partyRenaissance (2017–2020; 2020–present)
Other political
affiliations
Miscellaneous right (until 2017)
Agir (2020–2022)

Thomas Gassilloud (French pronunciation: [tɔma ɡasiju]; born 21 May 1981) is a French politician who has represented the 10th constituency of the Rhône department in the National Assembly since 2017.[1][2] First elected to Parliament as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM), he joined Agir in 2020 and sat with the Agir ensemble group in the National Assembly until 2022, when the group was disbanded.[3] Following the 2022 legislative election, he joined the Renaissance group, after Agir was merged into Renaissance (formerly LREM).

Early life and education

A native of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, Gassilloud studied at Lumière University Lyon 2 and Emlyon Business School.

Political career

In Parliament, Gassilloud serves on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces, which he presided over from 30 June 2022 to 9 June 2024 in the 16th National Assembly. He succeeded Françoise Dumas who lost her seat in the 2022 legislative election.[4] He also served in the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) from 2017 to 2022.[5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Gassilloud is part of a number of parliamentary friendship groups, including with the Central African Republic, Chad and Mali.[4] He served in the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) from 2017 to 2022, before he was part of the French delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2022 to 2024, where he served on the Political Committee, the Subcommittee on NATO Partnerships, as well as the Subcommittee on Transatlantic Relations.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Qui est mon député ? Notre moteur de recherche pour mieux connaître votre représentant à l'Assemblée nationale". Le Monde.fr (in French). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Le député LREM du Rhône Thomas Gassilloud rejoint le groupe "Agir Ensemble" à l'Assemblée nationale". france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr (in French). 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b Thomas Gassilloud, National Assembly (in French).
  5. ^ Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST), Senate (in French).
  6. ^ Thomas Gassilloud, NATO Parliamentary Assembly.