Francis Szpiner (born 22 March 1954) is a French lawyer, writer and politician of The Republicans who serves as the mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris between 2020 and 2023.

[3] After he attended high school at the Lycée Jacques-Decour,[4] he studied law and then joined, in the early 1970s, the Institute of Criminology in Paris of the Panthéon-Assas University.

[5] Throughout his career as a lawyer he represented several prominent clients before court and was a legal counselor to Jacques Chirac, Madame Claude or Bernard Tapie.

[19] The mayor of Dakar was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for corruption charges in 2018 but pardoned by the Senegalese president Macky Sall in September 2019.

[21] In 1990, he was appointed chief of staff to Alexandre Léontieff, then president of the government of French Polynesia;[4] in 2002, he ran against Arnaud Montebourg in the sixth district of Saône-et-Loire.