| Bernard Carayon | |
| Office: | Mayor of Lavaur |
| Term Start: | 19 June 1995 |
| Office2: | Member of the French National Assembly for Tarn |
| Term Start2: | 1993 |
| Term End2: | 2012 |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Party: | The Republicans |
| Alma Mater: | Panthéon-Assas University |
Bernard Carayon (born 1 October 1957, in Paris) was a member of the French parliament.[1] First elected in Tarn in 1993; he has been then reelected in 2002 and 2007. He is also mayor of Lavaur, a historic city near Toulouse, since 1995.He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at SciencesPo Paris in the department of public affairs.With a focus on the questions of globalization, he has written two books entitled "Patriotisme économique" and "Changeons le monde" ("Let's change the world"). Together with a socialist MP he started a foundation called "Prometheus". Supported by a dozen prominent French companies, Prometheus tries to bridge the gap between the private and the public reflexions about globalization in order to build a genuine economic strategy for France and Europe.