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Yaël Braun-Pivet, born on December 7, 1970, in Nancy, is a lawyer, associative activist and french politician.

Member of La République en marche !, she is elected in the fifth constituency of Yvelines in the 2017 French legislative election. She is the president of the Law Committee, one of the eight standing committees of the National Assembly.

Professional career and family
Yaël Braun-Pivet started her career as a lawyer at the Paris Bar in the firm of Hervé Temime, before opening her own firm with two partners in Neuilly-sur-Seine. After seven years, she left France with her husband, a senior manager at L'Oréal, for an expatriation in Asia (Taiwan, Japan) then in Portugal and gave birth to five children. On her return to France in 2012, she obtained a Master 2 in "Business Law and Corporate Lawyer" and then created a startup specializing in short stays in bed and breakfast before reorienting towards charity.

Charity
Residing in Yvelines since 2012, she has been involved since 2014 in the French charity les Restos du cœur. After heading the departmental cell for access to rights and justice in November 2014, she headed the Chanteloup-les-Vignes branch in 2015 before piloting the creation of the new branch in Sartrouville. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Yvelines, and in September 2016 took in charge the deployment of the "access to justice" activity of Les Restos du Cœur at national level. She resigned from her volunteer duties after her election as a Member of Parliament.

Political career
She was treasurer of the Socialist Party (PS) section in Tokyo in the 2000s. In the automn of 2016, she joined En marche !, a party that embodies "all her ideas in terms of overcoming political divisions and acting with pragmatism".

Member of the 15th National Assembly
She was elected a Member of Parliament on June 18, 2017, winning over the outgoing deputy Jacques Myard with 58,99 % of votes  in the second round of French legislative elections. On June 29, she was elected President of the 15th Law Committee, one of the eight standing committees of the National Assembly, and was the second woman to become president of the committee under the Fifth Republic, twenty years after Catherine Tasca, although the position is usually devoted to seasoned deputies.

In July 2017, she acts as rapporteur for the organic law reestablishing confindence in public action, "a text which she strongly defended even before she became president of the Law Committee". The newspaper Journal du Dimanche then named her among "the 10 deputies who will count in the legislature".