
Frédéric Petit has been Deputy Secretary General of European Democratic Party since 2021. In 2017, he was elected to the French National Assembly by French citizens living abroad in Germany, Central Europe, and the Balkans. He is also a mediator and a foreign trade adviser for France. Mr Petit has also served since 2017 on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a vice-chair of the European Affairs committee, and as president of the France-Poland Friendship Group. Before being a politician, he spent 11 years as director of a community project for young people in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Lorraine. An engineer by training, he successively held management positions in energy companies. He has lived in Cameroon, many Eastern European countries and Egypt. He speaks five languages and lives between Krakow and Paris.