Anne Genetet, Minister of National Education and former cooking teacher for expatriate servants in Singapore – Libération

Considered inexperienced in the educational field, Michel Barnier’s new minister, a doctor by training, had set up a business providing cooking and first aid courses for domestic workers.

Among the “unknowns” who have joined the Barnier government since this weekend, Anne Genetet, 61, until now deputy for French people abroad (constituency of Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and the ‘Oceania), won the Ministry of National Education. An appointment which propels her to the head of an administration of more than a million public agents. And which does not fail to make the unions cringe, sorry for the profile of their new supervision, considered as a “casting error” and accused of not “know nothing, either closely or remotely, about school and the education system.”

The CV of the new minister is indeed somewhat confusing. After a first half of her career linked to her medical training, she devoted nearly ten years, before the deputation, to cooking and first aid courses for domestic workers.

Quickly after her appointment to Education, Internet users circulated, on social networks, screenshots of a Facebook group for French expatriates in Singapore, the city-state where she resides. Excerpts from posts – dating from 2013 to 2015 – where Anne Genetet goes over for advice