| Olivier Dussopt | |
| Office: | Minister of Labour, Employment and Economic Inclusion |
| Primeminister: | Élisabeth Borne |
| Term Start: | 20 May 2022 |
| Term End: | 11 January 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Élisabeth Borne |
| Successor: | Catherine Vautrin |
| Office1: | Minister of Public Action and Accounts |
| Term Start1: | 24 November 2017 |
| Term End1: | 20 May 2022 |
| Primeminister1: | Édouard Philippe Jean Castex |
| Predecessor1: | Gérald Darmanin |
| Successor1: | Gabriel Attal |
| Office2: | Member of the National Assembly for Ardèche's 2nd constituency |
| Term Start2: | 12 February 2024 |
| Term End2: | 9 June 2024 |
| Predecessor2: | Laurence Heydel Grillere |
| Successor2: | Vincent Trébuchet |
| Term Start3: | 22 June 2022 |
| Term End3: | 22 July 2022 |
| Predecessor3: | Michèle Victory |
| Successor3: | Laurence Heydel Grillere |
| Term Start4: | 20 June 2007 |
| Term End4: | 24 December 2017 |
| Predecessor4: | Gérard Weber |
| Successor4: | Michèle Victory |
| Office5: | Mayor of Annonay |
| Term Start5: | 16 March 2008 |
| Term End5: | 10 July 2017 |
| Predecessor5: | Gérard Weber |
| Successor5: | Antoinette Scherer |
| Office6: | Member of the Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes |
| Term Start6: | 10 July 2006 |
| Term End6: | 17 March 2008 |
| Birth Date: | 16 August 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Annonay, France |
| Alma Mater: | Grenoble Institute of Political Studies |
| Party: | Renaissance (2022–present) |
| Otherparty: | Socialist Party (2000–2017) Independent (2017–2020) Territories of Progress (2020–2022) |
Olivier Dussopt (pronounced as /fr/; born 16 August 1978) is a French politician who served as minister of labour, employment and integration in the government of prime minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.[1] [2] He previously served as minister of public action and accounts in the governments of successive prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022.[3] Dussopt was a member of the National Assembly for Ardèche from 2007 to 2017, and again in 2022 and 2024.
Dussopt was a member of the Socialist Party from 2000 to 2017. From 2007 until 2017, he was a member of the National Assembly. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2009-2017).[4]
In addition to his parliamentary activities, Dussopt worked on Manuel Valls’ campaign team in the Socialist Party's primaries for the 2017 presidential election.[5] Following the 2017 French legislative election, he was among a minority that voted against the Philippe government's proposal for the 2018 national budget.[6] [7]
On 27 November 2017, Dussopt was appointed by President Macron to the position of Secretary of State to the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts, under the leadership of minister Gérald Darmanin. Soon after that, he was expelled from the Socialist Party.[8] On 24 December 2017 he resigned from the National Assembly.
In 2020, he created the new movement Territories of Progress with fellow minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.[9]
On 20 May 2020, French online investigative and opinion newspaper Mediapart revealed that the French utility company Saur gave him a present of lithographs by Gérard Garouste for a value of 2,000 euros in January 2017, just a few days before he announced a contract for a hydroelectric turbine with the same company in his town of Annonay.[10] [11]
After the revelations, he initially answered that it was "A gift from a friend", but later he recognized that it was a gift from the company, and he promised to give back the lithographs. Additionally, the Saur employee who gave him the gift declared that he was not a friend of Dussopt, but that Dussopt was just a client.
In March 2023, Dussopt outed himself as a gay man in an interview with french magazine Têtu.[12]