Seybah Dagoma (born 9 June 1978) is a French lawyer and politician of the

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who served as a member of the

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on 17 June 2012, representing the department of Paris.

Early life and education

Born to immigrants from

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in 1978, Dagoma grew up in a low-income housing project in

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. She studied

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at the

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Career

In parliament, Dagoma served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs. She was also her parliamentary group’s

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on foreign trade. In her addition to her committee assignments, Dagoma was part of the National Assembly’s friendship groups with India, South Africa and Turkey. During her time in parliament, Dagoma was the only member of

sub-Saharan Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...

immigrant background. Since 2016, Dagoma has been serving as president of

Business France Business France is a French '' établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial'' created on 1 January 2015 through a merger between Unifrance and the French Agency for International Investment (InvestInFrance). It has the status of a ...

Other activities

* Terra Nova, Member of the Board of DirectorsGovernance
Terra Nova.

References

1978 births Living people French people of Chadian descent Politicians from Nantes Socialist Party (France) politicians Black French politicians Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians {{France-politician-Socialist-stub