Sylvie Guillaume is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Guillaume has been serving on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) since 2009, where she is in charge of human rights. She is also a substitute member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO). In addition to her committee assignments, Guillaume is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability, the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime) and the MEP Alliance for Mental Health.
Between January 2012 and 2014, Guillaume served as Vice President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group in charge of Citizens’ Europe. From 2014 until 2019, Guillaume served as one of the Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, under the leadership of President Antonio Tajani. In this capacity, she was in charge of the parliament’s transparency register and served as Vice Chairwoman of the Working Group on Information and Communication Policy.