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Ian Brossat
Ian Brossat in 2017
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
23 September 2023
ConstituencyIle-de-France
Member of the Council of Paris
In office
16 March 2008 – 23 September 2023
MayorBertrand Delanoë
Anne Hidalgo
Personal details
Born (1980-04-23) 23 April 1980 (age 43)
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Political partyFrench Communist Party
Spouse
Brice
(m. 2013)
EducationLycée Henri-IV
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure de Lyon

Ian Brossat (French pronunciation: [jan bʁɔsa]; born 23 April 1980) is a French politician and since September 2023 a member of the Senate representing the Communist Party, sitting with the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group.[1][2]

Biography

Ian Brossat is the son of Alain Brossat, a philosopher and professor at University of Paris VIII, and Swedish-born Sylvia Klingberg. Brossat's grandfather Marcus Klingberg was a Polish-born Israeli epidemiologist, veteran of the Red Army and Soviet spy.[3] His maternal grandmother, Adjia Eisman (also known as Wanda Yashinskaya), was a Holocaust survivor all of whose family perished.[4]

From 2008 he was a member of the Paris Council, representing the 18th arrondissement, elected as a Communist.[5] He stood for election to the National Assembly in 2012, losing to Daniel Vaillant.[6]

Brossat graduated from the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Ian Brossat is gay; he married his husband Brice in 2013.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Élections sénatoriales 2023 : le communiste Ian Brossat élu au Sénat". leparisien.fr (in French). 24 September 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ "M. Ian BROSSAT, sénateur de Paris (Ile-de-France)". Sénat (in French). 23 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Tia (1 December 2015). "Marcus Klingberg, Israeli Who Spied for Soviets, Dies". ABC News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
  4. ^ Aderet, Ofer (28 October 2019). "This Revolutionary Israeli Woman Married a Spy – Only to Learn That Her Father Is One, Too". Haaretz. ProQuest 2309235663.
  5. ^ "Ces jeunes politiques qui jouent déjà un rôle capital à Paris". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 24 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Résultats des élections législatives 2012 / Législatives / Les résultats / Elections - Ministère de l'Intérieur". interieur.gouv.fr. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Ian Brossat the leader of the French Communist Party is photographed..." Getty Images. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Ian Brossat : " J'ai pas choisi d'être gay, ni juif, j'ai juste choisi d'être communiste "". L'Obs (in French). 14 July 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2022.