Gavin knows prominent women !

Val says    Gavin Porter is keeping Doreen company in hospital and kindly volunteered  [ is that the way it went Gavin?] to research  the prominent women in France list for TAG Hi Val Here's Gavin's research on the women on your list. Doreen x  FRANCE’S PROMINENT WOMEN CHRISTINE LAGARDE: President of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.  Former Minister of Finance in  the Sarkozy Government and top lawyer in Chicago. ELIZABETH BADINTER: Author, historian and professor of philosophy at the Ecole  Polytechnique in Paris. France’s  most influential intellectual on the basis of books on feminism and motherhood. CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA: Garde de Sceaux (France’s Minister of Justice). Has just  successfully piloted the bill  allowing same-sex marriage through the French Parliament. ANNE-SOPHIE LAPIX: Journalist and television presenter. Will present the daily programme “C a vous” on TV Channel France 5 from 2nd September. MARTINE AUBRY: Mayor of Lille and senior member of the socialist party, of  which she was Leader until recently. ANNE HIDALGO: Deputy Mayor of Paris and Socialist Party Candidate for the  Paris Mayoral Election of 2014. ESTHER DUFLO: Economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif  Jamal   Poverty Action Lab. The Lab aims  to reduce poverty by ensuring policy to do so is based on scientific evidence. MARINE LE PEN: Leader of Le Front National. Seeks to present this extreme  right wing party as respectable and  in touch with the ordinary French person. ANNE LAUVERGEON: Heads the French nuclear industry. One of the most  prominent women in the top  management of French industry. NAJAD VALLAUD-BELKACEM: Spokesperson (Porte-parole) of the French  Government and Minister  for Equality of Women. FRANCOISE BARRE-SINOUSSI: Researcher in virology. She discovered  HIV (virus of immunodeficiency)  at the Paris Pasteur Institute with Luc Montaigne. They received the Nobel Prize for  Medicine in October 2008. MARILLON COTILLARD: One of the highest paid French film actresses. Has also  starred in Hollywood films. MERCEDES ERRA: French business woman. Executive President of the  advertising agency Havas Worldwide  and Co-Founder of the advertising agency BETC. NATALIE NOUGAYAREDE: Director of Le Monde. Journalist specialising in  international affairs particularly  Eastern Europe, Russia and countries formerly part of Russia. CAROLINE FOUREST: Essayist, journalist and militant feminist. Editor-in-chief of  the Review ProChoix  which defends individual liberties against all ideology of a dogmatic, racist,  fundamentalist or freedom  threatening nature. Gives courses at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques at Paris. NATACHA POLONY: Journalist and essayist specialising in education. ALESSANDRA SUBLET: Radio personality and TV presenter. Former presenter of  the daily programme  “C a vous” on TV Channel France 5. CATHERINE NAYL: Journalist. News Director at the television channel TF1.