Sarah El Haïry is Minister of State with responsibility for Biodiversity, attached to the Minister for the Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion. In that role since 2023, before then she was from 2020 to 2022, Minister of State for Youth and Engagement, attached to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sport and from 2022 to 2023, Minister of State for Youth and General National Service, attached to the Minister of Armed Forces and of National Education and Youth. An Institute of European Democrats board member since 2019, she has been since 2018 a spokesperson for the Mouvement Démocrate, an EDP member political party. She also served from 2017 to 2020 as a member of French parliament representing the 5th constituency of the Loire Atlantique and a member of the assembly’s Finance Committee. Before then, she was from 2015 to 2017 a regional delegate to the UP group and prior to that a business manager at Sagemcom from 2013 – 2014. At local level, she was elected in 2020 as a Community Councillor in the Nantes Métropole as well as a municipal councillor in Nantes. Since 2019: Colonel in the Citizen Reserve of the National Gendarmerie. From 2015 to 2017 she was a delegate for the Fondation chèque déjeuner, and from 2016 until 2017 an administrator of occupational medicine at SSTRN, or Service de santé au travail de la région Nantaise – the occupational health service of the Nantes region. During that time, she was engaged in the European Trade Union Confederation for Young People within CFTC – a French employees union. She studied at the Institut des hautes études de Défense nationale (IHEDN) and the University of Nantes, faculty of law and political science. She was born in 1989 in the city of Romorantin-Lanthenay, in the Loir-et-Cher department situated in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.