Rima Abdul Malak, cultural adviser to Emmanuel Macron since 2019, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot. Little known to the general public, this great 44-year-old theater lover has been working in the shadows since her arrival at the Élysée.
Born in Lebanon in the midst of the civil war in 1978, she moved to France with her family ten years later and settled in Lyon in 1989. Rima Abdul Malak then studied at the Lycée International before joining the Institute of Political Studies (Science-Po Lyon) of which she chairs the theater association. She then continued her studies in the capital of Gaul at the Lumière Lyon 2 University where she obtained a university degree in the contemporary Arab world.
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Back to the war zone
Holder of a DESS in Development and International Cooperation obtained in 2000 at the Sorbonne, she began her career in the humanitarian sector by becoming president of the Clowns sans frontières association, which organizes shows for children in war zones, particularly in Palestine, from 2001 to 2006.
She then turned to a career in politics by taking the reins of the music department of the French Institute. Before becoming chief of staff to Christophe Girard, cultural assistant to the mayor of Paris, then cultural adviser to Bertrand Delanöe and being appointed cultural attaché in New York.
Culture and communication adviser to Emmanuel Macron since 2019, the one who overshadowed Roselyne Bachelot when she was Minister of Culture, according to an article from L’OBS dating from the beginning of the yearfinally took Rue-de-Valois this Friday, May 20.
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