Early life Born in South Korea, Son-Forget was
adopted by a French family as a child and grew up in
Langres, before studying in
Dijon,
Paris and
Lausanne. In 2005, she received a
Master 2 in
cognitive science from CogMaster (co-accredited by
Paris Descartes University,
EHESS and
ENS Ulm) with cognitive psychologist
Stanislas Dehaene. In 2008 she graduated at the end of the second cycle (Master 2) of medical studies at the
University of Burgundy. In 2015, she obtained a doctorate MD-PhD in medicine and
cognitive neuroscience. The subject of her
thesis was "Visuo-vestibular mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness".
Political career Son-Forget supported Socialist candidate
François Hollande during the
2012 French presidential election. She was secretary of the
Geneva section of the
French Socialist Party within the Federation of French Abroad, and chairman of the committee of activists of the
Party of European Socialists in
Switzerland, before taking leave in 2014. In 2017, she joined then-presidential candidate
Emmanuel Macron's political movement, "En Marche!" which later became
La République En Marche (LREM).
2017 French legislative election Son-Forget was the LREM candidate in the
2017 French legislative election for the
sixth constituency for French residents overseas, which covers Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She progressed to the second round and defeated
Republican candidate Claudine Schmid with 74.94% of the vote and 18.78% turnout.
Member of the National Assembly As a member of the National Assembly, Son-Forget sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee and served as president of the France-South Korea relations group and vice-president of the France-Kosovo relations group. With
La France Insoumise (LFI) member
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, she co-wrote a report on France's strategy on seas and oceans. In October 2018, she was a candidate in an internal election for Executive Officer of LREM, opposing fellow Member of Parliament
Stanislas Guerini. She was defeated with 18% of the vote. She declared she was still supporting President Macron. In January 2019, Son-Forget joined center-right parliamentary group
UDI, Agir and Independents and left in December of that year. She sat as a
Non-Attached member of the National Assembly for the remainder of her mandate.
2022 French elections In February 2020, invited on
talk show Touche pas à mon poste !, Son-Forget announced she would run for the
2022 French presidential election, introducing
Alexandre Benalla (former deputy chief of staff to Emmanuel Macron) as one of her supporters. Previously, Son-Forget had attempted to have Benalla hired as her parliamentary assistant, but her application was rejected by the National Assembly. In 2021, Son-Forget began assisting and actively gathering support for far-right presidential candidate
Éric Zemmour early in Zemmour's campaign. She eventually ran for re-election in her
constituency as an independent candidate and was defeated in the first round with 4.5% of the vote. In December 2022, Son-Forget announced she had joined the
Democratic Union of the Centre (also known as Swiss People's Party or SVP), a
national-conservative party in Switzerland. It was later reported that Son-Forget would temporarily join the local branch of the SVP in
Yverdon-les-Bains. ==Controversies==