Françoise Nyssen

Françoise Nyssen (born 9 June 1951) is a French-Belgian publisher and politician and a former director of the Actes Sud publishing house. From 2017 until 2018, she served as Minister of Culture of France in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.

Françoise Nyssen
Minister of Culture
In office
17 May 2017 – 16 October 2018
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byAudrey Azoulay
Succeeded byFranck Riester
Personal details
Born (1951-06-09) 9 June 1951
Etterbeek, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
French
ParentsHubert Nyssen
Christine Le Bœuf
Alma materUniversité libre de Bruxelles

Early life and education

Françoise Nyssen was raised and attended university in Belgium.[1] She has a maîtrise (Master's degree) from the Institut supérieur d’urbanisme et de rénovation urbaine in Brussels.

Career

Early in her career, Nyssen worked first as an urban planner in Paris.[2]

In 1987, Nyssen became an associate and presiding director of Actes Sud publisher, founded by her father Hubert Nyssen,[1] and located in Arles.[3] Françoise Nyssen and her husband founded the school Domaine du possible in 2014, using Steiner-Waldorf paedagogical methods.[4] The school settled in a farm a few kilometers away from the centre of Arles, where a hundred pupils, aged from 3 to 16, were enrolled in September 2016.[4]

On 17 May 2017, Nyssen was appointed as French Minister of Culture, as the successor of Audrey Azoulay.[2] On 13 November 2017, she announced the launch of a new fund to support young designers with €300,000 to be invested in 10 projects annually.[5]

During her time in office, Nyssen was accused of impropriety over renovations done in her previous publishing house’s outpost in Arles in 2011.[6] Shortly after, the public prosecutor’s office in Paris launched a preliminary investigation into Nyssen, after French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reported that she had failed to declare building renovations in her prior career as a publisher.[6] In October 2018, she was replaced by Franck Riester in a cabinet reshuffle.[7]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

References
  1. Mounier, Frédéric (10 October 2014). "Françoise Nyssen, éditrice bienveillante". La Croix (in French).
  2. "Gouvernement : Françoise Nyssen, une éditrice à la Culture". Le Moniteur (in French). 17 May 2017.
  3. Douroux, Philippe (19 February 2016). "Françoise Nyssen, le charme discret de l'éditrice". Libération (in French). Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  4. Floc'h, Benoît (10 October 2014). "Le Domaine du possible, une école pour "faire bouger les lignes"". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2018..
  5. Foreman, Katya (13 November 2017). "France's Minister of Culture Announces Fashion Fund". WWD. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  6. Young, Zachary (24 August 2018). "Paris prosecutor launches probe into French culture minister". Politico Europe. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  7. Bisserbe, Noemie (16 October 2018). "Macron, Under Pressure, Walks Tight Line With Cabinet Appointments". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  8. "Françoise Nyssen nommée ministre de la Culture". Rencontres d'Arles (in French). 17 May 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
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