Alain Juppé was born on August 15, 1945 in Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes region of France, and after obtaining an agrégation in Classics at the ENS, he entered the IEP in 1964 and graduated from the Ena in 1972. He first established himself politically in the capital alongside Jacques Chirac, of whom he was Minister of Budget, then Prime Minister.
In 2006, he was re-elected as mayor of Bordeaux (re-elected in the first round of the last municipal elections in March 2014). At the same time, he served in the Fillon government as head of several important ministries: Ecology (2007), Defense (2010-2011) and Foreign Affairs (2011-2012).
