Doctor in economics, doctor in management and agrégé in management sciences, Dominique Roux is a father who has always been proud of his daughter. This was evident on the show An intimate ambition of M6. “My father was there. He kicked me in the buttocks, but he mostly appealed to my pride as a girl, telling me: ‘girls can be as successful as boys. You got it in you, you can do it“, had then confided Valérie Pécresse, who was a shy child.
In a father-daughter interview at Marie ClaireValérie Pécresse confessed in front of her dad: “He bled himself so that as a teenager, I went to England, to Russia… With a teacher’s salary, it was not easy.” Appointed Minister of Higher Education and Research by this same Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2007, at the age of 39, her father could not hold back his tears. Today, the situation is less glorious but her father is always present, as are her three children and her husband Jérôme who offered her a luxurious stay to perk up.