Ian Brossat is the son of
Alain Brossat, a philosopher and professor at
University of Paris VIII, and
Swedish-born Sylvia Klingberg. Brossat's grandfather
Marcus Klingberg was a
Polish-born
Israeli
epidemiologist, veteran of the
Red Army and
Soviet spy. His maternal grandmother, Adjia Eisman (also known as Wanda Yashinskaya), was a
Holocaust survivor all of whose family perished. From 2008 he was a member of the
Paris Council, representing the
18th arrondissement, elected as a
Communist. He stood for election to the
National Assembly in
2012, losing to
Daniel Vaillant. Brossat graduated from the
École normale supérieure de Lyon. Ian Brossat is gay; he married his husband Brice in 2013. ==References==