Nicole Ameline

Nicole Ameline
Nicole Ameline in 2008
Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Assumed office
2013
Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon
António Guterres
Minister for Parity and Professional Equality
In office
17 June 2002  31 May 2005
PresidentJacques Chirac
Prime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarin
Succeeded byCatherine Vautrin
Member of the National Assembly
for Calvados's 4th constituency
In office
20 June 2007  20 June 2017
Preceded byYves Boisseau
Succeeded byChristophe Blanchet
Personal details
Born (1952-07-04) 4 July 1952
Saint-Vaast-en-Auge, France
Political partyUMP
Alma materUniversity of Caen

Nicole Ameline (born 4 July 1952) is a French politician, lawyer, diplomat and women's rights advocate. She served as a member of the National Assembly of France for several terms between 1991 and 2017, and held various roles in the Government of France from 1995; she was Minister of the Sea in 2002 and Minister of Gender Equality from 2002 to 2005. She has been a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since 2008 and was the committee's chairperson from 2013.

She represented the department of Calvados as a member of The Republicans.

Ameline also currently serves as the chair of the International Institute of Human Rights and Peace, Normandy.