Pierre Mansat

Pierre Mansat, born in 1954, worked for 15 years in a sorting office for the French post office, La Poste. As a member of the CGT trade union and later a key figure within the French Communist Party, he was elected a Paris city councillor, in the 20th arrondissement, in 1995. From 2001 to 2014, he was deputy mayor of Paris under Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, and in charge of Paris Métropole and relations with local authorities in the wider Île-de-France region. He was president of the Atelier International du Grand Paris from 2011 to 2017, and is today delegate-general of the association La Ville en Commun.