Thomas Cazenave

Thomas Cazenave (French pronunciation: [tɔma kaznav]; born 6 March 1978) is a French civil servant and politician of the Renaissance (RE) party who is Mayor of Bordeaux. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Public Accounts in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2023 to 2024. As a finance inspector, he was an executive at Orange France and at Pôle emploi before becoming deputy chief of staff for President Emmanuel Macron at the Ministry of the Economy, then chief of staff to the Secretary of State for Industry, Christophe Sirugue. From December 2016 to June 2017, he was Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic and from November 2017 to November 2019, he was the interministerial delegate for public transformation. He was head of the list of La République en Marche in the first round of the 2020 municipal elections in Bordeaux making a joint list in the second round with Nicolas Florian, the outgoing Republican Mayor. His list finished second behind the list of Pierre Hurmic's Greens who became Mayor of Bordeaux. Cazenave then announced the creation of an opposition group, of four elected LREM and autonomous councillors distinct from that from Nicolas Florian's list. In the 2022 French legislative election he was elected Member of Parliament for Gironde's 1st constituency. Within the National Assembly, he was a member of the Finance Committee.