Margie Sudre

Before her election to the European Parliament (UMP-"les républicains"), she held several political mandates, both local and national: chairwoman of the Réunion Island regional Council (1993–1998, member since 1998), Secretary of State for the French-Speaking World (1995–1997). She worked to make French the second official language of the Atlanta Olympic Games. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Regional Development. She is a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and, as Head of the French UMP MEP delegation, a member of the EPP-ED bureau. ==Career==

• Specialisation in anaesthesia and resuscitation (1976) • Doctor of medicine (1977) • Replacement anaesthetist (including resuscitation) (1971–1977) • Anaesthetist (including resuscitation) at the Joan of Arc Clinic (La Réunion) (1977–1995) • Chairman of the Réunion Island Regional Council (1993–1998) • State Secretary for the French-Speaking World (1995–1997) • Member of the European Parliament (elected 1999, 2004). She did not candidate in 2009 elections. • Knight of the Legion of Honour (1999) • Officer of the Legion of Honour (2010) == References ==