Sarah El Haïry

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Sarah El Haïry
Official portrait, 2023
Minister Delegate for Youth, Childhood and Family
In office 8 February 2024 – 21 September 2024
Prime Minister	Gabriel Attal
Preceded by	Prisca Thevenot
Succeeded by	Agnès Canayer
Secretary of State for Youth
In office 4 July 2022 – 20 July 2023
Prime Minister	Élisabeth Borne
Preceded by	Herself
Succeeded by	Prisca Thevenot
In office 27 July 2020 – 20 May 2022
Prime Minister	Jean Castex
Preceded by	Gabriel Attal
Succeeded by	Herself
Member of the National Assembly for Loire-Atlantique's 5th constituency
In office 21 June 2017 – 26 August 2020
Preceded by	Michel Ménard
Succeeded by	Luc Geismar
Member of the Municipal council of Nantes
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 July 2020
Mayor	Johanna Rolland
Personal details
Born	(1989-03-16) 16 March 1989 (age 35) Romorantin-Lanthenay, France
Political party	MoDem (since 2010)
Other political affiliations	UMP (until 2010)
Children	1
Education	Nantes University
Profession	Sales Executive

Sarah El Haïry (born 16 March 1989) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as Secretary of State for Biodiversity in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since 2023.^[1]

El Haïry previously served as State Secretary for Youth at the Ministry of National Education in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex from (2020–2022) and Borne (2022–2023).^[2][3] She was previously a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 until 2020, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.^[4]

Born to Franco-Moroccan parents,^[5] El Haïry attended school in Metz and graduated from Lycée Lyautey high school in Casablanca in Morocco.^[6]

El Haïry studied law in Nantes and stayed in Canada before becoming a trader in a cooperative.^[7]

Initially active within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), El Haïry left the party and joined Democratic Movement (MoDem) in 2010.^[8]

In parliament, El Haïry served as member of the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2020 and on the Committee on Legal Affairs from 2018 until 2019. In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on a 2018 bill aimed at improving the financial situation of associations and authored a 2019 report on philanthropy in France.^[9] In addition to her committee assignments, she was part of the French-Cypriot Parliamentary Friendship Group.^[10]

Since February 2018, El Haïry has been serving as MoDem's spokesperson, alongside Jean-Noël Barrot.^[11]

In July 2020, El Haïry was appointed Secretary of State for the Youth to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports Jean-Michel Blanquer.^[12]

El Haïry opposed the Aéroport du Grand Ouest project.^[13]

In April 2023, El Haïry outed herself in an interview as a lesbian woman, making her the first cabinet member in French history to do so.^[14]