Patrick Devedjian Politician

Patrick Devedjian (born on 26 August 1944 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years after the global financial crisis of 2008, since December 2008. He is of Armenian descent.