Astrid Panosyan
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet (born 13 August 1971) is a French politician and corporate director who has been Minister of Labour since September 2024 (first in the Barnier government, now in the Bayrou government). She served as a member of the National Assembly for Paris's 4th constituency from 2022 to 2024
Born to an Armenian father and a Norwegian mother, Panosyan-Bouvet is a graduate of HEC Paris, Sciences Po and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Panosyan-Bouvet held senior positions at two of the main insurance groups in France, AXA and Groupama.
As a member of Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet when he was France’s economy minister, Panosyan-Bouvet advised him on international investments and the attractiveness of France’s economy. In 2016, she co-founded the En Marche movement and was later part of a trio (together with Arnaud Leroy and Bariza Khiari) who led the movement for several months before Christophe Castaner took over the position as party leader. As the movement’s head of international relations, she negotiated its coalition with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election.
In parliament, Panosyan-Bouvet served on the Committee on Social Affairs from 2022 to 2024. In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the French-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-American Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2022 to 2024.