Julien Bargeton

A 2000 graduate of the École nationale d'administration, Bargeton joined the Court of Audit as a financial magistrate prior to his involvement in politics.

On 29 March 2008, shortly after his election to the Council of Paris for the Socialist Party, he assumed the first deputy mayorship of the 20th arrondissement, a position he held until 5 April 2014. On 9 July 2012, he was named Deputy Mayor of Paris for Transport by Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, succeeding Annick Lepetit. On 5 April 2014, he was named Deputy Mayor of Paris for Finance by newly-elected Mayor Anne Hidalgo, a position he held until his resignation on 6 October 2017 following him taking a seat in the Senate, to which he was elected for La République En Marche!, which he had joined that year. The list he headed placed third, with 11.3% of the vote.

Bargeton subsequently returned to the Council of Paris as president of a new group for La République En Marche!, Democrats and Progressists, on 20 November 2017. Elected to the Regional Council of Île-de-France in 2021, he left the Council of Paris on 28 June 2020 following the 2020 municipal election.

In 2023, he lost his Senate seat, as the list he led placed fourth with 6% of the vote. In 2024, he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to preside over the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, an établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial under the Ministry of Culture.