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Place of Birth: Monaco
About Sophie Thevenoux
- Sophie Thevenoux (née Solamito) is a Monegasque politician and diplomat. Thevenoux was named to the Council of Government in 2009, taking up her position as Counsellor of Finance and Economy on March 26 of that year; she became the first woman to be named to a ministerial post in the government of Monaco.
- She presided over the ministry during a difficult period, during which revenue declined a considerable amount due to a variety of factors.
- She had previously served as director general of the Department of Finances, to which position she had been named in 2005.
- Thevenoux remained in charge of the ministry until 2011, when she was replaced by Marco Piccinini; Marie-Pierre Gramaglia entered the cabinet at the same time, becoming the second woman in Monaco's history to be appointed to such a position.
- In 2015 she was named Head of the Principality of Monaco's Mission to the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, presenting her credentials to Donald Tusk on May 7; at the same time she became Monaco's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, as well as Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
- She previously served as Monaco's ambassador to France.
- In 2016 she was named a Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite in a ceremony in Brussels.
- She is married.
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