Reshuffle: Aurélien Rousseau, former chief of staff of Élisabeth Borne, appointed Minister of Health

Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP 16:51 p.m., July 20, 2023

Aurélien Rousseau, former chief of staff of Elisabeth Borne at Matignon, will be appointed Minister of Health to replace François Braun, Europe 1 learned from sources close to the file, confirming information from BFMTV. Before joining the Prime Minister's Office last year, the 47-year-old had headed the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency.

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From his experience at the ARS, he had drawn an essay, published in September, ("The wound and the rebound, in the black box of the State facing the crisis", editions Odile Jacob) to tell "how the things of the State are played, the decisions are taken". Coming from the left, he previously worked in the cabinet of former Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, then with Socialist Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.

He was to join the Caisse des dépôts et consignations

A historian by training and an enarque attached to the Council of State, Aurélien Rousseau was appointed Chief of Staff to Elisabeth Borne on May 17, 2022. He had recently asked to leave his post and was due to join the Caisse des dépôts et consignations in July.

He is married to Marguerite Cazeneuve (no relation to Bernard Cazeneuve, editor's note), a pension specialist and former adviser to the Elysee, who became number two (deputy director) of the National Health Insurance Fund. His father-in-law is the deputy Jean-René Cazeneuve, rapporteur of the budget, and his name has circulated to take the Ministry of Public Accounts now orphaned by Gabriel Attal, party to the National Education. It is finally another deputy of the majority, Thomas Cazenave, who will inherit the post.