Emmanuel Macron was born in rural France in 1977 and graduated from France’s elite university École nationale d’administration in 2004. Appointed Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in 2014, he resigned and founded a new centrist party, En Marche! He won the presidential election in a landslide in May 2017.
Jonathan Goldberg is a Los Angeles-based, South African-born translator and retired lawyer who describes himself as ‘an avid Francophile’, with a ‘passion for French politics, culture, and the French language’.
Jonathan has a diploma in Civilisation française from the Sorbonne. He runs a blog, Le-mot-juste-en-anglais.com, which addresses subjects at the interface of English and French, as well as related cultural matters.
Juliette Scott has been a translation and language specialist for over 25 years. She has a PhD in translation studies from Bristol University, runs her own translation business in Portsmouth, England, and is an active member of Kiva, a micro-loan organisation that supports entrepreneurship and self-help in developing countries and those affected by war and poverty.