Christian Cambon

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Christian Cambon
Senator for Val-de-Marne
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2004
Mayor of Saint-Maurice
In office 19 March 1989 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Louis-François Manchon
Succeeded by	Igor Semo
Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
In office 16 March 1986 – 25 September 2004
Personal details
Born	(1948-03-08) 8 March 1948 (age 76) Saint-Mandé, France
Political party	Union for French Democracy (until 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) The Republicans (2015–present)
Alma mater	Panthéon-Assas University Sciences Po

Christian Cambon (French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ kɑ̃bɔ̃]; born 8 March 1948) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has represented the Val-de-Marne department in the Senate since 2004.

Cambon graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and holds a master's degree in Public Law (Panthéon-Assas University).

Cambon held the mayorship of Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne from 1989 until 2017 and was First Vice President of the Syndicat des eaux d'Île-de-France, the public drinking water service for the greater metropolitan Paris area, from 1983 to 2017.

In the Senate, Cambon served as president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces from 2017 to 2023. He also chairs the French-Moroccan parliamentary friendship group and the French delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.^[1]

On 24 April 2018, Cambon was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump in honour of President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.^[2]

• French Development Agency (AFD), Member of the Board of Directors^[1]

Following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état, Cambon joined forces with fellow Senators Roger Karoutchi and Bruno Retailleau on an open letter to President Macron in Le Figaro, critizicing France's Africa policy and arguing that the failure of Operation Barkhane was in great part the reason why France and its economic, political and military presence have been rejected in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and the Central African Republic; the letter was signed by 91 other senators.^[3][4]

• Page on the Senate website