| Guillaume Garot | |
| Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Mayenne's 1st constituency |
| Term Start: | 2 May 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Sylvie Pichot |
| Term Start1: | 17 June 2007 |
| Term End1: | 17 June 2012 |
| Predecessor1: | Henri Houdouin |
| Successor1: | Sylvie Pichot |
| Office2: | French Minister for Food Industry |
| Term Start2: | 2012 |
| Term End2: | 2014 |
| President2: | François Hollande |
| Primeminister2: | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Office3: | Mayor of Laval |
| Term Start3: | 2008 |
| Term End3: | 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | François d'Aubert |
| Successor3: | Jean-Christophe Boyer |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Laval, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
| Alma Mater: | Pantheon-Sorbonne University Sciences Po |
Guillaume Garot (pronounced as /fr/; born 29 May 1966) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and since 2014, representing the Mayenne department.[1] From 2012 until 2014, he was Junior Minister for the Food Industry under minister Stéphane Le Foll in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Garot became a member of the National Assembly in the 2007 French legislative election. During his first term in parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009) and the Defence Committee (2009-2012) before his appointment to the government.[2] In addition to his activities in national politics, he was the mayor of Laval from 2008 until 2012.[3]
At the Socialist Party's Reims Congress in 2008, Garot supported Ségolène Royal's candidacy as party leader; she eventually lost against Martine Aubry. From 2011, he also worked as spokesperson for Royal's campaign to become the party's candidate for the 2012 French presidential election.[4]
While in government, Garot oversaw the French government's response to the 2013 horse meat scandal.[5]
After leaving government in 2014, Garot was part of the Finance Committee (2014-2015) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2014-2017). Since 2017, he has been serving on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning.[6] In 2015, he was the parliament's rapporteur on legislation obliging supermarkets to hand over unused food to charity and not destroy leftover products.[7] [8]
In addition to his committee assignments, Garot is part of the French-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Tunisian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[9]
In July 2019, Garot voted against the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[10]
In 2023, Garot publicly endorsed the re-election of the Socialist Party's chairman Olivier Faure.[11]