| Jean-Baptiste Djebbari | |
| Office: | Minister of Transport |
| Predecessor: | Élisabeth Borne |
| Successor: | Position abolished |
| President: | Emmanuel Macron |
| Termstart: | 3 September 2019 |
| Termend: | 16 May 2022 |
| Office2: | Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Vienne's 2nd constituency |
| Term Start2: | 21 June 2017 |
| Predecessor2: | Daniel Boisserie |
| Successor2: | Pierre Venteau |
| Primeminister: | Édouard Philippe Jean Castex |
| Term End2: | 3 October 2019 |
| Birth Date: | 26 February 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Melun, France |
| Party: | La République En Marche! (since 2016) Territories of Progress (since 2021) |
| Alma Mater: | École nationale de l'aviation civile |
Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (in French pronounced as /ʒɑ̃ batist dʒɛbaʁi/; or Djebbari-Bonnet; born 26 February 1982) is a French aircraft pilot and politician[1] of La République En Marche! (LREM).
Djebarri was appointed as Secretary of State for Transport on 3 September 2019 under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.[2] His rank was elevated to Minister Delegate under the leadership of Ecology Minister Barbara Pompili on 6 June 2020, when newly-appointed Prime Minister Jean Castex presented his government. From 2017 until 2019, Djebbari was a member of the National Assembly, where he represented the 2nd constituency of the Haute-Vienne department.[3]
Djebbari was born in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, the son of a father of Algerian origin and a housewife.[4] He graduated from the École nationale de l'aviation civile in 2005, Technicien supérieur des études et de l'exploitation de l'aviation civile training course.[5]
In parliament, Djebbari served as the LREM group's coordinator on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning from 2017 until 2019.[6] In this capacity, he was the rapporteur on a 2018 bill on the reform of the SNCF. From January until September 2019, he later served as one of his parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its chairman Gilles Le Gendre.[7]
In September 2019, Djebbari joined the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and was appointed Secretary of State for Transport in the Ministry of Ecology, led by Élisabeth Borne.[8] Early in his tenure, he led unsuccessful efforts to rescue French airline Aigle Azur until a commercial court rejected financial rescue offers.[9] He later led efforts on introducing a 2021 national law prohibiting domestic flights that can be replaced by a rail journey of less than two-and-a-half hours.[10]
Within his LREM party, Djebarri was in charge of advising chairman Stanislas Guerini on campaign financing ahead of the 2022 French presidential election.[11]
In July 2019, Djebbari voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[12]
Following the murder of Samuel Paty in 2020, Djebbari said he was "largely in favor" of using artificial intelligence to fight terrorism on public transport networks if individuals' privacy rights were respected.[13] [14]
In 2022, Djebbari was appointed to the board of directors of hydrogen carmaker Hopium.[15]