Benjamin Dirx

Benjamin Dirx (born 25 January 1979) is a French entrepreneur and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Saône-et-Loire.[1]

Benjamin Dirx
Member of the National Assembly
for Saône-et-Loire's 1st constituency
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byThomas Thévenoud
Personal details
Born (1979-01-25) 25 January 1979
Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materUniversity of Burgundy

Political career

In parliament, Dirx has been a member of the Finance Committee since 2018. He has also been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2017-2018) and the Committee on European Affairs (2017-2020).[2] On the Finance Committee, Dirx is the parliament's rapporteur on the national budget for higher education[3] and on shareholder activism.[4]

Since 2020, Dirx has been part of his parliamentary group's leadership under chair Christophe Castaner.[5]

Political positions

Together with Éric Woerth, Dirx published a non-legally binding report in 2019 which garnered international attention for its recommendations on preventing short-sellers and activists from unfairly destabilising French corporates. These included widening the disclosures of short positions to derivatives instruments, pushing for more transparency around the borrowing and lending of stock, and investigating whether market functions are jeopardised once short selling reaches a certain volume of shares.[6][7]

In July 2019, Dirx decided to abstain from a vote on the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Benjamin Dirx French National Assembly.
  3. Marie-Christine Corbier (19 July 2019), Budget 2020 : pour les universités et la recherche, une hausse limitée en attendant mieux Les Échos.
  4. Laurence Boisseau (6 June 2019), La place de Paris se mobilise face à l'offensive des fonds activistes Les Échos.
  5. Députés LREM: Aurore Bergé, ex-rivale de Castaner, nommée "présidente déléguée" Le Point, 29 September 2020.
  6. David Keohane and Harriet Agnew (2 October 2019), France seeks crackdown on short sellers and activist investors Financial Times.
  7. Laurence Boisseau (3 December 2019), L'activiste Muddy Waters défend les vertus de la vente à découvert Les Échos.
  8. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
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