François-Philippe Champagne Net Worth 2022, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

François-Philippe Champagne is a Canadian politician who has been Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry s ince 2021. Champagne was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. He was elected to represent the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain in the House of Commons in the 2015 election for the Liberal Party. He became Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry on January 12, 2021, after a cabinet reshuffle.

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Early life

Name	François-Philippe Champagne
Net Worth	$4 million
Occupation	Politician
Age	52 years
Height	1.75m

François-Philippe Champagne net worth

François-Philippe Champagne PC MP was born on June 25, 1970 (age 52 years) in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. He studied law at the Université de Montréal and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. After several years working as a senior attorney for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, he joined ABB Group in 1999, eventually rising to group vice president and senior counsel. In 2008 he joined Amec PLC as a strategic development director and was designated a “young global leader” by the World Economic Forum. Following his return to Canada, he became involved in a variety of business and non-profit ventures.

Political career

François-Philippe Champagne expressed his desire in an interview with The Globe and Mail in 2009 to eventually return to Canada and enter politics, citing fellow Shawinigan resident Jean Chrétien as an inspiration. Ahead of the 2015 Canadian federal election, he was nominated as the Liberal candidate in Saint-Maurice—Champlain, a riding represented at the time by New Democratic-turned-Liberal MP Lise St-Denis.

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Champagne was elected to Parliament on October 19, 2015. After his election in 2015, Champagne was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Finance until 2017, when he was appointed Minister of International Trade. In November 2019, Champagne became Minister of Foreign Affairs, taking the helm of Trudeau’s foreign policy. In June 2020, it was reported that Champagne had two more mortgages with the state-owned Bank of China, raising questions of potential vulnerability to foreign influence.

He has stated he is trilingual, speaking English, French and Italian. François-Philippe Champagne welcomed Trump’s peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a positive and historic step towards a peaceful and secure Middle East, adding Canada was gladdened by the suspension of Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.

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Wife

François-Philippe Champagne is married to his wife Anne-Marie, and they had their wedding in Canada. His wife is a private person and hasn’t disclosed information related to their children’s life. The couple first met at high school. In the 2021 Canadian cabinet reshuffle, François-Philippe Champagne was moved out of the Foreign Affairs portfolio and became Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. He stands at an appealing height of 1.75m and has a good body weight which suits his personality. As of mid-2022, François-Philippe Champagne and his wife Anne-Marie are still married.

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