Sylvia Pinel

Sylvia Pinel
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Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (French: Ministre de l'Egalité des Territoires et du Logement)
In office 2 April 2014 – 11 February 2016
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Manuel Valls
Preceded by	Cécile Duflot
Succeeded by	Emmanuelle Cosse
Personal details
Born	(1977-09-28) 28 September 1977 L'Union, Haute-Garonne
Alma mater	Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Sylvia Pinel (born 28 September 1977 in L'Union, Haute-Garonne) is a politician and Radical Party of the Left member of the National Assembly of France, where she represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department.

Family and Education

The daughter of cattlemen, Pinel attended Michelet of Montauban, and received a DESS focusing on litigation and arbitration and a DEA in European law at Toulouse at the Toulouse 1 University Capitole, she studied her first year of law school at the university center of Montauban.

Her mother was Deputy Mayor of Fabas, worked with Senator-Mayor radical Pierre Tajan. Her father, Michel Pinel, who died in 2011, was an alderman in Gargas.

Cabinet position

On 16 May 2012 she was appointed Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, and Tourism at the French Ministry of Productive Recovery by President François Hollande. On 2 April 2014 she was appointed Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing