Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 to August 2014. Between April 2014 and August 2014, as a member of the short-lived first Valls government, Montebourg held additional ministerial responsibilities whereby his overall brief encompassed the Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology. He was succeed by former investment banker Emmanuel Macron. Previously he served as Deputy for the sixth district of Sa�ne-et-Loire in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012, and he was President of the General Council of Sa�ne et Loire from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Socialist Party, Montebourg was a candidate in the Socialist presidential primary of 2011. He is identified with the left wing of the Socialist Party. Montebourg has conspicuously failed to quell reports that in 2017 he will again seek election to the French presidency [More at Wikipedia]

October 30th, 1962 in Clamecy (Age 61)