2012–2022: Politics During his studies at the
University of Poitiers, Person volunteered as the local chairman of the left-wing
National Union of Students of France (UNEF). He was also a member of the
Socialist Party until 2012. Ahead of the
2012 French presidential election, he worked for the campaign of Socialist candidate
Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In 2015, Person co-founded "Les Jeunes avec Macron" (JAM) with three friends –
Sacha Houlié, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit – which had more than 22,000 members by September 2017. He later joined Macron's campaign staff ahead of the
2017 presidential elections. Person has been a member of the
National Assembly since the
2017 elections. In parliament, he first served on the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2018, where he was the
rapporteur on the
Ministry of Culture's annual budget. Since 2019, he has been a member of both the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning. In November 2018, following the resignation of
Christophe Castaner from the position as chairman of LREM, Person briefly considered a candidacy to succeed him but later withdrew from the race for the party leadership; instead,
Stanislas Guerini was elected. Person later became Guerini's deputy. In September 2020, he stepped down from that role because of disagreements over the direction of the party; he remained an LREM member. Person was not seeking re-election in the
2022 French legislative election.
2022–present: Usual Money In 2022,
Politico Europe reported that Person had been in talks with potential partners and investors to create a European
stablecoin with
Carrefour-owned fintech company Market Pay after having been at the forefront of efforts to draft France's cryptocurrency legislation. In 2024, Usual Labs launched Usual Money, a
decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on
Ethereum. Usual Money issues two tokens: USD0++, a liquid bond, and US$0, a
stablecoin backed by
treasury bills. ==Political positions==