Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe | |
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.jpg')) Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe in 2009 | |
| Member of the French Senate for Pas-de-Calais | |
| Assumed office 23 September 2001 | |
| Mayor of Arras | |
| In office 1995–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Léon Fatous |
| Succeeded by | Frédéric Leturque |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 March 1939 Bully-les-Mines, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | UDI |
| Children | Isabelle Florennes |
| Alma mater | ICAM Lille |
Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe (born 29 March 1939 ) is a French politician.
Vanlerenberghe was born in Bully-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais. He served as mayor of Arras from June 1995 to February 2011, and was elected UDF senator from the Pas-de-Calais at the elections of 2001.
A centrist, Vanlerenberghe joined the MoDem of François Bayrou in 2007, and now sits with a sizeable MoDem contingent at the Palais du Luxembourg.
Vanlerenberghe is an engineer by training, having studied at the Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers in Lille and holding a degree from the Centre des Hautes Études de la Construction. He worked in Arras for the Public Works Commission, also holding jobs from 1964 to 1974 at Rhone-Poulenc-textile and the Centre d'Études Supérieurs Industrielles.
From 1981 to 1986, he led the Fédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel Agricole et Rural in Paris; from 1990 to 1993, he directed the Conseil en Développement d'Entreprises et Ressources Humaines.
Having won reelection as mayor in 2008 with broad cross-party support, he left his post in February 2011 in favor of his successor, fellow Mouvement démocrate politician Frédéric Leturque.
Current mandates
- Vice-President of Mouvement démocrate
- Senator for Pas-de-Calais
- Member of the Municipal Council of Arras
- Member of the Urban Community of Arras
Former mandates
- Mayor of Arras
- President of the Urban Community of Arras
- Deputy to the European Parliament
- Member of the French Parliamentary Delegation for the European Union
- Member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Health Policy
- Regional counsellor for Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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