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Édith Cresson
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Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
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Édith Cresson, born Édith Campion in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1934, is a French politician, diplomat, and economist. A member of the Socialist Party, she has held the position of Prime Minister of France, served as a member of the French National Assembly, and acted as a European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science. She has also been a Member of the European Parliament. Her professional work has been located in Strasbourg and Brussels.
Cresson is an alumnus of HEC and was educated at the Haut Enseignement Commercial pour les jeunes filles. She has received the Officer of the Legion of Honour, the Knight of the Legion of Honour, and an honorary doctorate. She is the mother of two children and speaks French as her native language.
As an author, Cresson has published works including *Aeronautics and space = Aéronautique et espace*, *Science in tomorrow's Europe*, *Avec le soleil*, *Europe needs research, research needs Europe*, and *Histoires françaises*.
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Improvement of Episodic Memory in Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Older Adults: Evidence from a Cognitive Intervention Program
· 2006 · cited 310x
- Novel Assay Reveals Multiple Pathways Regulating Stress-Induced Accumulations of Inorganic Polyphosphate in
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
· 1998 · cited 279x
- Orfeo ToolBox: open source processing of remote sensing images
· 2017 · cited 233x
- Fast 3D reconstruction of the lower limb using a parametric model and statistical inferences and clinical measurements calculation from biplanar X-rays
· 2012 · cited 208x
- Targeted polyphosphatase expression alters mitochondrial metabolism and inhibits calcium-dependent cell death
· 2007 · cited 206x
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Encyclopedic overview
Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson ( French: [edit kʁɛsɔ̃]; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022. Her political career ended in scandal as a result of corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology.
French Prime Minister
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