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| name = Noelle Lenoir
| image =Noëlle Lenoir 2.jpg
| name = Noëlle Lenoir
| image = Noëlle Lenoir 2.jpg
| office1 = Minister Delegate for European Affairs
| caption = Noëlle Lenoir in 2015
| term_start1 = June 17, 2002
| office = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)|Junior Minister for European Affairs]]
| term_end1 = March 31, 2004
| term_start = 17 June 2002
| successor1 = [[Claudie Haigneré]]
| term_end = 31 March 2004
| predecessor1 = [[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]]
| president = [[Jacques Chirac]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Constitutional Council of France]]
| primeminister = [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]]
| term_start2 = March 11, 1992
| predecessor = [[Claudie Haigneré]]
| term_end2 = March 12, 2001
| successor = [[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]]
| successor2 = [[Pierre Joxe]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Constitutional Council (France)|Constitutional Council]]
| predecessor2 = [[Francis Mollet-Vieville]]
| birth_name = Noelle Lenoir
| term_start2 = 11 March 1992
| term_end2 = 11 March 2001
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1948|4|27}}
| appointer2 = [[Henri Emmanuelli]]
| nationality = {{flag|France|size=20px}}
| president2 = [[Robert Badinter]]<br>[[Roland Dumas]]<br>[[Yves Guéna]]
|
| predecessor2 = [[Francis Mollet-Vieville]]
| successor2 = [[Pierre Joxe]]
| office3 = [[Mayor (France)|Mayor]] of [[Valmondois]]
| term_start3 = 24 March 1989
| term_end3 = 23 June 1995
| successor3 = [[Bruno Huisman]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|04|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], France
| alma_mater = [[Sciences Po]]<br>[[Paris Law Faculty]]
| profession = [[Jurist]]
}}
}}

'''Noëlle Lenoir''' (born 27 April 1948 in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[Hauts-de-Seine]]) is a French [[politician|stateswoman]].
'''Noëlle Lenoir''' (born 27 April 1948) is a French [[lawyer]], former [[judge]], and [[politician]].


==Career==
==Career==


Noelle Lenoir graduated from the [[Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]] and the Paris Law School and has been a professor in each of these institutions. After qualifying as a lawyer and the achievement of the Senate administrator competition, she has been appointed, from 1972 to 1982, at the law Committee of the [[French Senate]] where she was in charge of the follow-up and review of criminal law, immigration law, human rights law in addition to the Justice budget. Following 10 years at the High Assembly, Noelle Lenoir joined the regulation management of the newly formed National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) as Chef Legal Officer, from 1982 until 1984. She has followed the implementation of the French Data processing and Liberty law and she particularly focused on Marketing, Health Data and the applicability of the law in the Scientifics and Statistics domains as well as on transfers of data.
Noëlle Lenoir was born in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]]. She is a graduate of [[Sciences Po]] and the [[Paris Law Faculty]]. She has been a professor in each of these institutions. After qualifying as a lawyer and the achievement of the Senate administrator competition, she was appointed, from 1972 to 1982, at the law Committee of the [[French Senate]]. During her time at the Senate, she was in charge of not only the Justice budget, but also the follow-up and review of criminal law, immigration law, and human rights law. Following 10 years at the High Assembly, Noelle Lenoir joined the regulation management of the newly formed national data protection authority Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) as Chief Legal Officer, from 1982 until 1984. She followed the implementation of the French Data Processing and Liberty Law and she particularly focused on marketing, health data and the applicability of the law in the Scientific and Statistics domains as well as transborder on transfers of data in addition to enquiries by the CNIL.


In 1984, she joined the [[Council of State (France)|Council of State]] (the Conseil d'État is the French administrative Supreme Court) where she was appointed 'Rapporteur Public" (Advocate general). In 1988, she was appointed as Chief of Staff for the [[Ministry of Justice (France)|Ministry of Justice]], where she served until 1990. In 1990, the French government appointed Lenoir to review French [[bioethics]] law. Her report to the Prime Minister, [[Michel Rocard]], titled "Aux Frontières de la Vie: Pour une éthique biomedicale à la Française" provided the foundation and adoption of the first French bioethics law.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guéguen |first=Elodie |date=2020-10-20 |title=Présidentielle 1995 : ces trois mois où le Conseil constitutionnel a manœuvré pour "sauver" le Président |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/presidentielle-1995-ces-trois-mois-ou-le-conseil-constitutionnel-a-manoeuvre-pour-sauver-le-president-3988830 |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=France Inter |language=fr}}</ref>


She was appointed as the first woman and youngest person to the French [[Constitutional Council (France)|Constitutional Council]], where she served the Court's nine-year term from 1992 to 2001.<ref name="Montvalon2008">{{cite journal |last=de Montvalon |first=Dominique |date=3 March 2008 |title=Noëlle Lenoir, en campagne à la campagne |journal=[[Le Parisien]] | url=http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/noelle-lenoir-en-campagne-a-la-campagne-03-03-2008-3296103709.php| accessdate=23 October 2012}}</ref>
In 1984, she joined the [[Council of State (France)|Council of State]] (the Conseil d’état is the French administrative supreme court where she was appointed 'Rapporteur Public" (Advocate general). In 1988, she was appointed as Chief of Staff of the [[Ministry of Justice (France)|Ministry of Justice]], where she served until 1990.
In 1990, the French government appointed Lenoir to review French [[bioethics]] law. Her report to the Prime Minister, [[Michel Rocard]], titled “Aux Frontières de la Vie: Pour une éthique biomedicale à la Française” provided the foundation and adoption of French bioethics law.


Aside from being a constitutional Justice, Noelle Lenoir chaired the [[UNESCO]] International Bioethics Committee and drafted the Human Genome and Human Rights Declaration, which the [[United Nations]] endorsed in 1998 on the 50th anniversary of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. In 1991, she is also appointed by the [[European Commission]] presided by [[Jacques Delors]] as a member of the European Ethics and Science & Technology Group (GEE). Then, in 1994, she is elected as President of this group and reelected by its members twice.
She was appointed as the first woman and youngest person on the [[Conseil Constitutionnel]], (the French Supreme Court for constitutional matters), where she served the Court's nine-year term from 1992 to 2001.<ref name="Montvalon2008">{{cite journal |last=de Montvalon |first=Dominique |date=3 March 2008 |title=Noëlle Lenoir, en campagne à la campagne |journal=[[Le Parisien]] | url=http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/noelle-lenoir-en-campagne-a-la-campagne-03-03-2008-3296103709.php| accessdate=23 October 2012}}</ref>


She left her position at the GEE in 2000 to travel to the United States where she was, an adjunct law professor at the [[Columbia Law School|Law university of Columbia]], [[New York City]] before joining the Paris Bar in 2001, Noëlle Lenoir was appointed in 2002 Junior Minister for European Affairs by Prime Minister [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Crumley|first=Bruce|date=23 June 2002|title=Madame La Ministre|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,265376,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022120843/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,265376,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2010}}</ref> During her tenure she was involved in a number of negotiations with central and oriental European countries on their way to join the [[European Union]] and the follow-up of the constitutional treaty. In addition, she defended [[France]]'s positions on various European proposals and legislation.
Finally, she is the first woman appointed, with her counterpart the German minister of European affairs, to the position of General Secretary for France-German Cooperation (SGFA).


Noëlle Lenoir joined [[Debevoise & Plimpton]] LLP's the Paris office as Of-Counsel in 2004.
Besides being a constitutional Justice, Noelle Lenoir chaired the International Committee on Bioethics of [[UNESCO]] and drafted the Human Genome and Human Rights Declaration, which the [[United Nations]] endorsed in 1998 on the 50th anniversary of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. In 1991, she is also appointed by the [[European Commission]] presided by [[Jacques Delors]] as a member of the European Ethics and Science & Technology Group (GEE). Then, in 1994, she is elected as President of this group and reelected twice, by its members.
In 2006–2007 she was appointed by the French Minister of Justice to conduct an evaluation of the status of the European Company (SE) (report delivered on 19 March 2007).


Noëlle Lenoir joined JeantetAssociés in 2009 as a partner where she headed the European department (competition law, litigation and regulatory).


In January 2012, she joined the Paris office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as a partner where she currently heads the Compliance department, dealing with regulatory and public affairs law at the national level and European level. She also specializes in competition law, and data protection and cyber security law, covering a wide scope of areas in this respect such as data breach prevention and incident response, government and internal investigations, cross-border data transfer and e-discovery, controllers' and processors' liability, global compliance and risk management, privacy policies and EU data counseling, consumer protection and class action litigation defense as well as advertising and internet marketing. She also advises on confidential business information and misappropriation of trade secrets as well as on matters in relation with the blocking statute.<ref>{{cite web|publisher= Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP|date=3 January 2012 | title=Noëlle Lenoir, Former Minister of French Government and Constitutional Court Justice, where she heads the competition and public law department | url=http://www.kramerlevin.com/Noelle-Lenoir-Former-Minister-of-French-Government-and-Constitutional-Court-Justice-Joins-Kramer-Levins-Paris-Office-01-03-2012/| accessdate=25 October 2012}}</ref>
She left her position at the GEE in 2000 to travel to the USA where she was, as visiting professor, a law teacher for several months at the [[Columbia Law School|Law university of Columbia]], [[New York City]] before joining the Paris Bar in 2001, Noelle Lenoir is named in 2002 Minister for European Affairs by Prime Minister [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Crumley|first=Bruce|date=June 23, 2002|title=Madame La Ministre|journal=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,265376,00.html}}</ref> During this period she was involved into a number of negotiations with central and oriental European countries on their way to join the [[European Union]] and the follow-up of the constitutional treaty.
Between 22 May 2017 and 30 April 2020, she was a member of the panel of independent experts or ICRP (along with [[Theo Waigel]], former Finance Minister of Germany, and Lord Gold) designated by Airbus to examine the compliance within the company and monitor the improvements needed.
In addition, she defends [[France]]'s positions on various European proposals and legislations.
Finally, she is the first woman appointed, with her homologue the German minister of European affairs, the position of «General Secretary for France-German Cooperation (SGFA)».


After having been appointed by the French Minister of Justice, she acted as Commissioner under the 1970 Hague Convention on the taking of evidence abroad in civil and commercial matters in charge of ensuring compliance of the discovery process set up in relation with the tragic fire at the [[:fr:Incendie de la tour Grenfell|Grenfell Apartment]] complex in London with the French Blocking Statute and GDPR.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://casetext.com/case/behrens-v-arconic-inc-7|title = Behrens v. Arconic, Inc., 487 F. Supp. 3d 283 &#124; Casetext Search + Citator}}</ref>


In July 2020, she created her own law firm – [https://www.noellelenoir-avocats.com/index.php Noëlle Lenoir Avocats] – and was referenced by [https://www.magazine-decideurs.com/ Décideurs] among the 30 best lawyers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.magazine-decideurs.com/news/l-elite-2020-qui-sont-les-references-parmi-les-avocats-d-affaires|title=L'Elite 2020 : Qui sont les références parmi les avocats d'affaires ?|date=2 December 2020 }}</ref>
Noëlle Lenoir joined the Parisian office of [[Debevoise & Plimpton]] LLP as an Of-Counsel in 2004.
In 2006-2007 she was appointed by the French Minister of Justice to carry out an evaluation of the status of the European Company (SE) (report delivered on 19 March 2007).


==Current educational activities / think tank==
Noelle Lenoir joined JeantetAssociés in 2009 as a partner where she headed the European department (competition law, litigation and regulatory).


Noëlle Lenoir taught at Sciences-Po Paris and the Faculty of law of Paris (apart from Columbia Law School and University College London). She is currently an Associate Professor and President of the European Institute at the [[HEC Paris|Hautes Etudes de Commerce]] in Paris.<ref name="Montvalon2008"/>
In January 2012, she joined the Paris office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as a partner where she heads the department on Competition, Regulatory, Public affairs law at the national level and at the European level. She also specializes in data protection law and cyber security covering a wide scope of areas in this respect such as data breach prevention and incident response, government and internal investigations, cross-border data transfer and e-discover, controllers' and processors' liability, global compliance and risk management, privacy policies and EU data counseling, consumer protection and class action litigation defense as well as advertising and internet marketing. She also advises on confidential business information and misappropriation of trade secrets as well as on matters in relation with he blocking statute.<ref>{{cite web|publisher= Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP|date=3 January 2012 | title=Noëlle Lenoir, Former Minister of French Government and Constitutional Court Justice, where she heads the competition and public law department | url=http://www.kramerlevin.com/Noelle-Lenoir-Former-Minister-of-French-Government-and-Constitutional-Court-Justice-Joins-Kramer-Levins-Paris-Office-01-03-2012/| accessdate=25 October 2012}}</ref>


Furthermore, she is the Founder and President of Cercle des Européens,<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> a think-tank which operates as an ideas exchange group on socioeconomic and political stakes of the 21st century [[Europe]]. Cercle des Européens<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> is known as a place where French and European decision makers can meet for roundtable discussions on different European problems and subjects. Noelle Lenoir is also President of the Comité Droit et Débat Public, which gathers lawyers interested in popularization of legal issues.
==Current educational activities / Think tank==
She was also a member of the EC High Level Experts group on the European company law at the Commission level. She created in 2017 a European network "Ministers For Europe" (MFE) gathering former minister of Foreign or European Affairs to exchange views and publish common op-ed on European issues.

Lenoir used to teach at Sciences-Po Paris and the Faculty of law of Paris (apart from Columbian Law School and UCL). She is currently an Associate Professor and President of the European Institute at the [[HEC Paris|Hautes Etudes de Commerce]] in Paris.<ref name="Montvalon2008"/>

In addition, she is the Founder and President of “Cercle des Européens”,<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> Think Tank which operates as ideas exchange group on socioeconomic and political stakes of the 21st century [[Europe]] and which is deemed as a place where French decision-makers can meet European decision makers for roundtables on different European problems and subjects. She is also a member of the EC High Level Experts group on the European company law at the Commission level.


==Mandates==
==Mandates==


Noëlle Lenoir was administrator of Generali France (2008-2012). She is currently administrator of [[Valeo]] (since 2009) and Compagnie des Alpes (since 2012)
Noëlle Lenoir was administrator of Generali France (2008–2012), Compagnie des Alpes (2012–2018) and [[Valeo]] (2009–2019). She is currently administrator of Sopra-Steria.


Local representative of the City of Valmandois (Val d’Oise) for the first time in 1977, Lenoir was elected [[mayor]] of this town in 1989 until 1995,<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> a mandate she had to abandon in favor of her mandate as a justice on the French Constitutional Court. She stood again for the mayor election in 2008<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> and was elected with her complete list. Lenoir stayed Mayor of Valmondois from 2008 through 2010, where she resigned for personal reasons. In this capacity she was vice-president of the community of cities of the District of "Sausseron", member of the steering Committee of the Association of France Mayors, as well as member of the legal committee of “Concessions – Délégations de service public” of the Delegate Management Institute. She is member of the Board of the Association of French Constitutional lawyers and of the Society for Comparative Law.
She became a local representative of the City of Valmandois (Val d'Oise) for the first time in 1977. By 1989 she was elected [[mayor]] of Valmondois until 1995,<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> a post she had to abandon in favor of her mandate as a justice of the French Constitutional Court. She ran again for the mayor in 2008<ref name="Montvalon2008"/> and was reelected with her complete list. Lenoir stayed Mayor of Valmondois from 2008 through 2010, where she resigned for personal reasons. In this capacity she was vice-president of the Community of Cities of the District of "Sausseron", member of the Steering Committee of the Association of France Mayors, as well as member of the Legal Committee of "Concessions – Délégations de service public" of the Delegate Management Institute. She is member of the Board of the Association of French Constitutional lawyers and of the Society for Comparative Law.


She was appointed by the Bureau of the French National Assembly as Chief Ethics Officer (2012 - 2014)
She was appointed by the Bureau of the French National Assembly as Chief Ethics Officer (2012–2014).


She was appointed as Chairman of the Radio France Ethics Committee (2017–2018).
==Press / Media==


She was appointed as Chairman of the Scientific and Ethics Committee of the [[Parcoursup]] platform by an order issued by the French Minister of Higher Education and Research. This committee is due to deliver an annual report on the functioning of this platform to the Parliament (2018–2019).
Mrs Lenoir is a columnist on European matters for a variety of French newspapers. She was editor for the BFM radio station, France-Culture radio,France 24 TV station in partnership with HEC, and she is responsible for the “Europe” blog of the [[L'Express (France)|L’Express]] weekly magazine. She has made several publications about the caricaturist [[Honoré Daumier]]. She is honorary President of the Society for the Friends of Daumier which she created in 1994.


She is the Vice President of the French Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC France – since 2017).
Among others:


==Other ''pro bono'' functions==
- La Transparence administrative (en coll., 1987) with Bruno Lasserre and Bernard Stirn)


* Member of the American Law Institute
- Aux Frontières de la Vie : une Ethique Biomédicale à la Française.
* Distinguished Fellow of the Hastings Center
* Member of the French Academy of Technology


==Press / media==
- Les Normes Internationales de la Bioéthique (1998)
Lenoir is a columnist on European matters for a variety of French newspapers. She was editor for the BFM radio station, France-Culture radio, France 24 TV station in partnership with HEC. She was responsible for the "Europe" blog of the ''[[L'Express (France)|L'Express]]'' weekly magazine till 2020. She has made several publications about the caricaturist [[Honoré Daumier]]. She is honorary President of the Society for the Friends of Daumier which she created in 1994.


Among others:
- Relever le défi des Biogechnologies (2000)


* La Transparence administrative (en coll., 1987) with Bruno Lasserre and Bernard Stirn)
- La Justice, de Daumier à nos jours (1999)
* Aux Frontières de la Vie : une Ethique Biomédicale à la Française.

* Les Normes Internationales de la Bioéthique (1998)
- La Vie Politique, de Daumier à nos jours (2005)
* Relever le défi des Biogechnologies (2000)

* La Justice, de Daumier à nos jours (1999)
- La Societas Europaea ou SE : Pour une Citoyenneté Européenne de l'Entreprise (2007)
* La Vie Politique, de Daumier à nos jours (2005)
* La Societas Europaea ou SE : Pour une Citoyenneté Européenne de l'Entreprise (2007)
* L'Europe, de Daumier à nos jours (2017)


==Distinctions==
==Distinctions==
- Grand Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (France)


- Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (France)
* Grand Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (France)
* Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (France)
* Grand Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold II (Belgique)
* Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite (Pologne)
* Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (Allemagne)


===Other distinctions===
- Grand Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold II (Belgique)


* Honoris Causa, [[Suffolk University]] (USA);
- Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite (Pologne)
* Honoris Causa, [[University College London]] (UK)


==Teaching==
- Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (Allemagne)


Competition law and European Law at [[Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University]]
'''''Other Distinctions: '''''

- Honoris Causa, Suffolk University (USA);

- University College London (UK)

- Distinguished Fellow of the Hastings Center (États-Unis)

- Member of the American Law Institute

==Teaching==
Competition law and European Law at Pantheon Sorbonne Paris I


==Areas of practice==
==Areas of practice==


* Compliance, Environmental Social Responsibility, Anticorruption and International investigations at National and International level
- Competition Law at National and European level
* Public Business Law and Constitutional Law

* Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Public Business Law and Constitutional Law
* European and Competition Law

* Litigation
- Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity
* Regulatory

- Litigation

- Regulatory


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.ceuropeens.org Le Cercle des Européens]
* [http://www.ceuropeens.org Le Cercle des Européens]
* [http://www.debevoise.com/files/News/50a57d33-f909-48f0-a11f-f7677f6f0231/Presentation/NewsAttachment/00003a12-5e47-4f1b-9211-04c22790ceee/RapportNLenoirenversionanglaise.pdf Report on the European Company statute (SE)commissioned by the French Minister of Justice]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110709215347/http://www.debevoise.com/files/News/50a57d33-f909-48f0-a11f-f7677f6f0231/Presentation/NewsAttachment/00003a12-5e47-4f1b-9211-04c22790ceee/RapportNLenoirenversionanglaise.pdf Report on the European Company statute (SE)commissioned by the French Minister of Justice]
*[http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/377 Noëlle Lenoir's] opinion editorial commentaries for [[Project Syndicate]]
*[http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/377 Noëlle Lenoir's] opinion editorial commentaries for [[Project Syndicate]]


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Latest revision as of 20:36, 14 December 2024

Noëlle Lenoir
Noëlle Lenoir in 2015
Junior Minister for European Affairs
In office
17 June 2002 – 31 March 2004
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarin
Preceded byClaudie Haigneré
Succeeded byRenaud Donnedieu de Vabres
Member of the Constitutional Council
In office
11 March 1992 – 11 March 2001
Appointed byHenri Emmanuelli
PresidentRobert Badinter
Roland Dumas
Yves Guéna
Preceded byFrancis Mollet-Vieville
Succeeded byPierre Joxe
Mayor of Valmondois
In office
24 March 1989 – 23 June 1995
Succeeded byBruno Huisman
Personal details
Born (1948-04-27) 27 April 1948 (age 76)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Alma materSciences Po
Paris Law Faculty
ProfessionJurist

Noëlle Lenoir (born 27 April 1948) is a French lawyer, former judge, and politician.

Career

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Noëlle Lenoir was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She is a graduate of Sciences Po and the Paris Law Faculty. She has been a professor in each of these institutions. After qualifying as a lawyer and the achievement of the Senate administrator competition, she was appointed, from 1972 to 1982, at the law Committee of the French Senate. During her time at the Senate, she was in charge of not only the Justice budget, but also the follow-up and review of criminal law, immigration law, and human rights law. Following 10 years at the High Assembly, Noelle Lenoir joined the regulation management of the newly formed national data protection authority Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) as Chief Legal Officer, from 1982 until 1984. She followed the implementation of the French Data Processing and Liberty Law and she particularly focused on marketing, health data and the applicability of the law in the Scientific and Statistics domains as well as transborder on transfers of data in addition to enquiries by the CNIL.

In 1984, she joined the Council of State (the Conseil d'État is the French administrative Supreme Court) where she was appointed 'Rapporteur Public" (Advocate general). In 1988, she was appointed as Chief of Staff for the Ministry of Justice, where she served until 1990. In 1990, the French government appointed Lenoir to review French bioethics law. Her report to the Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, titled "Aux Frontières de la Vie: Pour une éthique biomedicale à la Française" provided the foundation and adoption of the first French bioethics law.[1]

She was appointed as the first woman and youngest person to the French Constitutional Council, where she served the Court's nine-year term from 1992 to 2001.[2]

Aside from being a constitutional Justice, Noelle Lenoir chaired the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee and drafted the Human Genome and Human Rights Declaration, which the United Nations endorsed in 1998 on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1991, she is also appointed by the European Commission presided by Jacques Delors as a member of the European Ethics and Science & Technology Group (GEE). Then, in 1994, she is elected as President of this group and reelected by its members twice.

She left her position at the GEE in 2000 to travel to the United States where she was, an adjunct law professor at the Law university of Columbia, New York City before joining the Paris Bar in 2001, Noëlle Lenoir was appointed in 2002 Junior Minister for European Affairs by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.[3] During her tenure she was involved in a number of negotiations with central and oriental European countries on their way to join the European Union and the follow-up of the constitutional treaty. In addition, she defended France's positions on various European proposals and legislation. Finally, she is the first woman appointed, with her counterpart the German minister of European affairs, to the position of General Secretary for France-German Cooperation (SGFA).

Noëlle Lenoir joined Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's the Paris office as Of-Counsel in 2004. In 2006–2007 she was appointed by the French Minister of Justice to conduct an evaluation of the status of the European Company (SE) (report delivered on 19 March 2007).

Noëlle Lenoir joined JeantetAssociés in 2009 as a partner where she headed the European department (competition law, litigation and regulatory).

In January 2012, she joined the Paris office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as a partner where she currently heads the Compliance department, dealing with regulatory and public affairs law at the national level and European level. She also specializes in competition law, and data protection and cyber security law, covering a wide scope of areas in this respect such as data breach prevention and incident response, government and internal investigations, cross-border data transfer and e-discovery, controllers' and processors' liability, global compliance and risk management, privacy policies and EU data counseling, consumer protection and class action litigation defense as well as advertising and internet marketing. She also advises on confidential business information and misappropriation of trade secrets as well as on matters in relation with the blocking statute.[4] Between 22 May 2017 and 30 April 2020, she was a member of the panel of independent experts or ICRP (along with Theo Waigel, former Finance Minister of Germany, and Lord Gold) designated by Airbus to examine the compliance within the company and monitor the improvements needed.

After having been appointed by the French Minister of Justice, she acted as Commissioner under the 1970 Hague Convention on the taking of evidence abroad in civil and commercial matters in charge of ensuring compliance of the discovery process set up in relation with the tragic fire at the Grenfell Apartment complex in London with the French Blocking Statute and GDPR.[5]

In July 2020, she created her own law firm – Noëlle Lenoir Avocats – and was referenced by Décideurs among the 30 best lawyers.[6]

Current educational activities / think tank

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Noëlle Lenoir taught at Sciences-Po Paris and the Faculty of law of Paris (apart from Columbia Law School and University College London). She is currently an Associate Professor and President of the European Institute at the Hautes Etudes de Commerce in Paris.[2]

Furthermore, she is the Founder and President of Cercle des Européens,[2] a think-tank which operates as an ideas exchange group on socioeconomic and political stakes of the 21st century Europe. Cercle des Européens[2] is known as a place where French and European decision makers can meet for roundtable discussions on different European problems and subjects. Noelle Lenoir is also President of the Comité Droit et Débat Public, which gathers lawyers interested in popularization of legal issues. She was also a member of the EC High Level Experts group on the European company law at the Commission level. She created in 2017 a European network "Ministers For Europe" (MFE) gathering former minister of Foreign or European Affairs to exchange views and publish common op-ed on European issues.

Mandates

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Noëlle Lenoir was administrator of Generali France (2008–2012), Compagnie des Alpes (2012–2018) and Valeo (2009–2019). She is currently administrator of Sopra-Steria.

She became a local representative of the City of Valmandois (Val d'Oise) for the first time in 1977. By 1989 she was elected mayor of Valmondois until 1995,[2] a post she had to abandon in favor of her mandate as a justice of the French Constitutional Court. She ran again for the mayor in 2008[2] and was reelected with her complete list. Lenoir stayed Mayor of Valmondois from 2008 through 2010, where she resigned for personal reasons. In this capacity she was vice-president of the Community of Cities of the District of "Sausseron", member of the Steering Committee of the Association of France Mayors, as well as member of the Legal Committee of "Concessions – Délégations de service public" of the Delegate Management Institute. She is member of the Board of the Association of French Constitutional lawyers and of the Society for Comparative Law.

She was appointed by the Bureau of the French National Assembly as Chief Ethics Officer (2012–2014).

She was appointed as Chairman of the Radio France Ethics Committee (2017–2018).

She was appointed as Chairman of the Scientific and Ethics Committee of the Parcoursup platform by an order issued by the French Minister of Higher Education and Research. This committee is due to deliver an annual report on the functioning of this platform to the Parliament (2018–2019).

She is the Vice President of the French Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC France – since 2017).

Other pro bono functions

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  • Member of the American Law Institute
  • Distinguished Fellow of the Hastings Center
  • Member of the French Academy of Technology

Press / media

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Lenoir is a columnist on European matters for a variety of French newspapers. She was editor for the BFM radio station, France-Culture radio, France 24 TV station in partnership with HEC. She was responsible for the "Europe" blog of the L'Express weekly magazine till 2020. She has made several publications about the caricaturist Honoré Daumier. She is honorary President of the Society for the Friends of Daumier which she created in 1994.

Among others:

  • La Transparence administrative (en coll., 1987) with Bruno Lasserre and Bernard Stirn)
  • Aux Frontières de la Vie : une Ethique Biomédicale à la Française.
  • Les Normes Internationales de la Bioéthique (1998)
  • Relever le défi des Biogechnologies (2000)
  • La Justice, de Daumier à nos jours (1999)
  • La Vie Politique, de Daumier à nos jours (2005)
  • La Societas Europaea ou SE : Pour une Citoyenneté Européenne de l'Entreprise (2007)
  • L'Europe, de Daumier à nos jours (2017)

Distinctions

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  • Grand Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (France)
  • Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (France)
  • Grand Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold II (Belgique)
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite (Pologne)
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (Allemagne)

Other distinctions

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Teaching

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Competition law and European Law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Areas of practice

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  • Compliance, Environmental Social Responsibility, Anticorruption and International investigations at National and International level
  • Public Business Law and Constitutional Law
  • Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity
  • European and Competition Law
  • Litigation
  • Regulatory

References

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  1. ^ Guéguen, Elodie (20 October 2020). "Présidentielle 1995 : ces trois mois où le Conseil constitutionnel a manœuvré pour "sauver" le Président". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f de Montvalon, Dominique (3 March 2008). "Noëlle Lenoir, en campagne à la campagne". Le Parisien. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  3. ^ Crumley, Bruce (23 June 2002). "Madame La Ministre". Time. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Noëlle Lenoir, Former Minister of French Government and Constitutional Court Justice, where she heads the competition and public law department". Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Behrens v. Arconic, Inc., 487 F. Supp. 3d 283 | Casetext Search + Citator".
  6. ^ "L'Elite 2020 : Qui sont les références parmi les avocats d'affaires ?". 2 December 2020.
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