Social and discreet profile
Born in Paris in 1961, the daughter of a Jew of Russian origin who took refuge in France and was deported to an extermination camp in 1942, she has maintained a powerful but discreet profile in the Macron government.
She had been responsible for urban planning at the Paris City Council before being appointed government delegate for the departments of Poitou-Charentes and Vienne, where she broke the glass ceiling by becoming the first woman appointed to the post.
There she established links with Royal, who took her to the government, until 2015 when she became president of the Public Transport Network of the Paris region.
From these spheres of socialist power, Borne publicly assumed his support for the young candidate Macron from the first round of the 2017 elections, in what was seen by many in the PS as a betrayal.
But Macron, who tried to form a mixed government mixing leaders from the public and private sectors, was also attracted by his work in companies such as Eiffage.
Upon entering the government, Borne was appointed Minister of Transport, where she faced important challenges such as the imposition of the eco-tax on plane tickets or the promotion of bicycles, but above all the reform of the public railway company that gave rise to a the biggest strike in the sector in decades.