Career
After a career in the social economy, Sylvie Guillaume joined the Socialist Party (Personal) in 1988 in the Rhône. In 1998, she was elected a regional councillor in the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council and reelected in 2004. In 2001, she was elected deputy mayor of Lyon and was reelected in 2008.
In the 2009 European elections, she was the second candidate on the Personal list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.
She was reelected at the same position in 2014. Immigration and asylum
In 2012 she was responsible for immigration issues in the presidential campaign of François Hollande.
Women"s rights
After being a women"s rights activist, she was appointed National Secretary of the Socialist Party for Gender Equality. Vice-presidency of South&Doctorate Group
In January 2012,she was elected Vice Presidente of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in charge of Citizens" Europe, along with Véronique De Keyser, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Stephen Hughes, Rovana Plumb, Bernhard Rapkay, Libor Rouček, Patrizia Toia and Marita Ulvskog.
