Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris and president of UCLG(France)
Bertrand Delanoé was born 30 May 1950 in Tunis. He has been involved in politics since the age of twenty-three as the secretary of the Socialist federation in Aveyron. He was first elected to the Paris city council in 1977. In 1993, he became the head of the city's Socialist Party. In 1995, he was elected to the French Senate, where he was secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense. Delanoë has been mayor of Paris since March 18, 2001. He is also the current president of UCLG.