Etienne Schneider

Etienne Schneider
Schneider in 2017
11th First Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg
In office 4 December 2013 – 4 February 2020 Serving with Félix Braz (2018–20)
Prime Minister	Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Jean Asselborn
Succeeded by	Dan Kersch
Minister of Health
In office 5 December 2018 – 4 February 2020
Prime Minister	Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Lydia Mutsch
Succeeded by	Paulette Lenert
Minister for the Economy and Foreign Trade
In office 1 February 2012 – 4 February 2020
Prime Minister	Jean-Claude Juncker Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Jeannot Krecké
Succeeded by	Franz Fayot
Minister for Defence
In office 4 December 2013 – 5 December 2018
Prime Minister	Xavier Bettel
Preceded by	Jean-Marie Halsdorf
Succeeded by	François Bausch
Personal details
Born	(1971-01-29) 29 January 1971 (age 53) Dudelange, Luxembourg
Political party	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse	Jérôme Domange ​ (m. 2016)​
Alma mater	ICHEC Brussels Management School University of Greenwich

Etienne Schneider (Luxembourgish pronunciation: [ˈʃnɑɪdɐ]; born 29 January 1971) is a Luxembourgish politician and economist who served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2020. He is a member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP).

Schneider was a municipal councillor in Kayl from 1995 to 2005, and from 1997 to 2004, he was secretary general of the parliamentary group of the LSAP in Parliament.^[1] He was elected first alderman of the municipality of Kayl in 2005, a mandate he held until May 2010.^[1]

Schneider was appointed Minister for the Economy and Foreign Trade on 1 February 2012.^[1] In the government formed following the 2013 general election, he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy. He continued to hold these offices following the 2018 general election, where he became the health minister as well. From 2013 to 2018, Schneider served as Minister for Defence. Following the 2018 general election, he became the first openly gay politician to be reelected for the office of deputy prime minister.

After stepping down as first deputy prime minister on 4 February 2020, Schneider entered the business world on the board of directors of both ArcelorMittal and the Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yevgeny Novitsky associated Russian firm Sistema.