He embodied the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Became Minister of Health in 2020, replacing Agnès Buzyn, Olivier Véran was at the heart of the news and government action during the health crisis. Mask, social distancing, vaccination… He spoke very regularly to inform the French of the latest measures or the latest data on the epidemic.
Now spokesperson for the government, the former doctor remains on the front of the stage, but he maintains a certain secrecy around his private life. Discreet with regard to his relationships and his family, Olivier Véran has never hidden that he had two children, born from his first marriage. He had mentioned them in particular during confinement, explaining in the Daily program that they were “in another city than the one in which I am”.
Originally from Isère, the neurologist married in 2008 Camille Lesne, gynecologist-obstetrician with whom he had his two children, Romain (12 years old) and Nina (9 years old). If he talks very little about his offspring, Olivier Véran still shared a rare photo of them at the end of 2022, on his Instagram account. We see him from behind, hugging his son and daughter in front of a painting representing prehistory. He adds, in the caption of the photo: “The discoveries are even more beautiful when they are made with the family. From prehistoric art to street art, to the Chauvet cave”.
On the front line during the Covid-19 pandemic, Olivier Véran agreed to be part of the Borne government during this second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. Asked about this decision last October by the magazine Gala, the forty-year-old then explained that he had asked his two children for their opinion: “They gave me the green light. Otherwise, I would not have gone there”.
