The Urban Community's President

Jacques Bigot, President of the Urban Community of Strasbourg

A short biography

Born on 31 July 1952 in Strasbourg.
In 1970, he gained a higher degree in private law at the Faculty of Law in Strasbourg. After being called to the Strasbourg Bar in 1975, he specialized in economic law and the rights of individuals. In the same year, he joined the Socialist Party.




Between 1978 and 1983, he was a member of the Strasbourg Bar Council and chaired the local section of the French barrister’s union.

In 1983, he stood for the first time in a municipal election on a socialist list in the town of Illkirch-Graffenstaden, near Strasbourg. He was elected and became a member of the municipal opposition.

From the 1980s on, consumer rights became one of his main causes:

> from 1986 to 1993, he chaired the Chambre de la Consommation in Alsace, a body which grouped together the region’s 13 consumer associations.
He also sat on the national consumer council

> from 1993 to 1996, he chaired Euro-Info Consommateurs (EIC), a bi-national body based in Kehl in Germany, which coordinates the activities of the border regions of Alsace and Baden- Württemberg

> at the same time, he was appointed Vice- President of the European Interregional Institute for Consumer Affairs (EICA) based in Lille, where he initiated a cooperation project, backed by the European Union, dealing with the right of access to the law and the settlement of cross-border disputes.

In 1995, he won the municipal elections and became Mayor of Illkirch-Graffenstaden. He was re-elected a first time in 2001, then for a third term in 2008, in the first round, with almost 70% of the vote.

Between 1995 and 2001, he was Vice-President of the Urban Community of Strasbourg in charge of economic development.

In 1998, he headed a “Socialists and Greens” list in the regional elections and was elected to the Alsace Regional Council, where he now chairs the Socialist group.

The 2004 elections confirmed this position once more. Following his victory in the 2008 municipal elections, he was elected President of the Urban Community of Strasbourg and at the same time became President of the Association of Urban Communities in France.