François-Xavier Bellamy

François-Xavier Bellamy (born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist, high-school teacher and politician.

François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.

Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles.

After two-years preparatory classes (A/L) in the Lycée Henri-IV, he got into the École normale supérieure, from which he graduated in 2005.

He is a former Deputy Mayor of Versailles (2008–2019) and now a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), having led The Republicans (LR) list in the 2019 election.

Since 2023, he has been The Republicans executive vice president.

He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.

Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008.

In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir in Asnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan in Rambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier in Guyancourt.

Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for the preparatory classes at the Lycée Blomet in Paris.

Bellamy is the author of four books.

He won the Prix d'Aumale from the Académie Française in 2014 for his first book, Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre.

In this essay, he analyses the failure of French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creating disinherited.

Bellamy has been deputy mayor in Versailles for employment, youth and higher education.

He was a candidate for the National Assembly elections in Yvelines's 1st constituency in 2017, invested by The Republicans, but he lost in the second round against the candidate of En Marche!, Didier Baichère with 48.9% vs 51.1% of the votes.

Since May 2019, Bellamy has been a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP.

In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

In addition to his committee assignments, Bellamy is part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

Ahead of the Republicans' 2022 convention, Bellamy endorsed Bruno Retailleau as the party's chairman.

In a joint letter initiated by Norbert Röttgen and Anthony Gonzalez ahead of the 47th G7 summit in 2021, Bellamy joined some 70 legislators from Europe and the US in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology including artificial intelligence and 5G.