Education
After attending preparatory classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from Higher Education Commission Paris and Sciences Po in 2011.
After attending preparatory classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from Higher Education Commission Paris and Sciences Po in 2011.
Vincent Chauvet was first educated in Dijon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the Paris-Sorbonne University. He worked as a reporter to the editorial board of Louisiana Tribune in Paris and Reuters in Brussels and hosted political talk shows on the Christian radio Fréquence protestante.
He also interned in of the French Army administration and in the Ministry of Budget.
After working in Brussels as a political communication advisor, Vincent Chauvet was recruited in 2013 by New York University School of Law to run the joint European Union Regulatory Policy Legal Clinic with Higher Education Commission Paris and to help launch the first Massive open online course of a French business school, focusing on European affairs and citizens" empowerment. Public interest litigation In 2010, he sued the French Prime minister for failing to enact anonymous CV legislation and brought the case before the Constitutional Council of France under the newly established ex post judicial review, arguing that the doctrine of standing in French administrative law was unconstitutional and pleading in favor of the introduction of public-interest litigation.
On July 9, 2014, the Conseil d"Etat gave reason to Chauvet"s claim that the French government had a constitutional obligation to execute the legislation. Foreign students" rights In 2011, Vincent Chauvet headed the student protest movement against a new policy enforced by Interior Minister Claude Guéant to massively reject work visa applications for foreign students forcing them to leave France after graduation.
This movement led to a softening of work-visa restrictions measures in 2012.
European Citizens" Initiative In April 2012, Vincent Chauvet founded the first ever submitted but only second registered European Citizens" Initiative One Single Tariff. The initiative supported the immediate end off all roaming fees and the creation of a unified digital market in the European Union. The signature gathering campaign led the European Parliament to back the proposal ahead of the European 2014 elections.
As youth branch leader of the Union for French Democracy Vincent Chauvet stood on the centrist ballot for the 2010 regional elections.
Foreign the presidential elections of 2012, Vincent Chauvet was part of the team of economic advisors to the Democratic candidate François Bayrou, proposing pooling European sovereign debts and passing a rule precluding unbalanced budgets. In the run-off he took sides against Nicolas Sarkozy warning in an op-ed in Libération with Dan Franck, Françoise Héritier, Jean de Kervasdoué and Michel Broué against growing popular support for Marine Le Pen.
In late 2012, he was picked by the business magazine L"Expansion as the most promising centrist politician in Burgundy. He is since 2014 Municipal councillor of Autun and Councillor of Greater Autun - Morvan Communauté de communes.