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Catherine Chabaud
MEP
Minister Delegate for the Sea and Fishery
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 October 2025
Prime MinisterSébastien Lecornu
MinisterMonique Barbut
Preceded byAgnès Pannier-Runacher (as Minister)
Member of the European Parliament
for France
In office
2 July 2019[1][2] – 15 July 2024
Personal details
Born (1962-11-29) 29 November 1962 (age 63)
Bron, France
PartyDemocratic Movement
European Union:
European Democratic Party

Catherine Chabaud (born 29 November 1962) is a French navigator, journalist and politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as Minister Delegate for the Sea and Fishery in the government of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu since 2025. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.[3]

Career in sports

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In 1997 Chabaud became the first woman to complete the Vendee Globe yacht race a solo round the World non-stop race finishing 6th in 3rd edition.[4] She is the only female to have skippered the winning entry on corrected time in the Fastnet Race, doing so in 1999.[5]

Political career

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After Chabaud returned from her circumnavigation, she began working as a campaigner and adviser to the French government on oceans and marine protection.[6]

As Member of the European Parliament, Chabaud served on the Committee on Development. In this capacity, she authored a 2021 report on marine plastic.[7]

In addition to her committee assignments, Chabaud was part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,[8] the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas[9] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ CAZENAVE, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Solo yachtswoman and journalist Catherine Chabaud wins Woman of the Year award". Euronews. 14 May 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. ^ Boyd, James. "Women in the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race". Sail-World. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  6. ^ Eline Schaart (March 25, 2021), How an around-the-world sailor became an MEP fighting ocean trash Politico Europe.
  7. ^ Eline Schaart (March 25, 2021), How an around-the-world sailor became an MEP fighting ocean trash Politico Europe.
  8. ^ Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development European Parliament.
  9. ^ Members 2019-2024 Archived 26 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas.
  10. ^ MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature Archived 2 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine MEPs Against Cancer.


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