Ian Brossat | |
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![]() Ian Brossat in 2017 | |
Member of the Senate | |
Assumed office 23 September 2023 | |
Constituency | Ile-de-France |
Member of the Council of Paris | |
In office 16 March 2008 – 23 September 2023 | |
Mayor | Bertrand Delanoë Anne Hidalgo |
Personal details | |
Born | Fontenay-aux-Roses, France | 23 April 1980
Political party | French Communist Party |
Spouse |
Brice (m. 2013) |
Education | Lycée Henri-IV |
Alma mater | École 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]
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]