Delphine O

Delphine O (born 25 December 1985) is a French politician and a former member of the French National Assembly, who represented Paris. She is the Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum 2021.

Early life and education

Born to a French mother and a Korean father, Delphine O grew up in Lyon. She graduated from the rue d'Ulm École normale supérieure, in the Letters section in 2004. She also holds a diploma from the New Sorbonne University and she specialized in Franco-German relations and European politics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She was an intern at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the French embassy in South Korea between 2007 and 2008 and then worked at the consulate general of France in New York from 2010 to 2012.

Graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School's Master in Public Policy (living in Iran for one year to write her master's degree: "Iranian Politics in Afghanistan"), she graduated in geopolitics of the Middle East. She works with ActionAid in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Afghan women's participation in local democratic life and on women's rights. After several stays in Iran, she moved to Tehran for a few months in 2015.

Back in France, she co-founded an online media, Lettres Persanes, which aims to better inform the French public on the news of politics, the economy, society and culture of Iran and sells services of counseling and training.