Jacques Boutault (born 4 January 1961) is a French politician member of Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) and the mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2020.

After a graduate diploma at the School of Advanced Studies in Information and Communication (Celsa Paris IV-Sorbonne), he worked for ten years as a journalist (L'Usine nouvelle, Challenges, Liaisons sociales, Rebondir…)).

In 1996, with Jean-Paul Maurel, he created the association "Bien vivre dans le 2e arrondissement", which brings together residents committed to improving the quality of life in their neighborhood in terms of transport, housing and education.

Jacques Boutault is running for municipal elections in the second arrondissement of Paris in 2001 with a program focused on improving traffic, social housing, setting up organic and vegetarian menus in school canteens, working with associations .

He focuses its policy on strengthening solidarity actions with the most deprived, organic meals in canteens, improving living conditions and the environment and developing citizen participation through participatory democracy.

At the end of 2007, Jacques Boutault published a column in the daily Le Monde where he challenged the posture of the mayor of Paris which consisted in overaking the municipal achievements of environmentalists while criticizing them harshly.

Its list is notably supported by the inhabitants or professionals working in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris like: Gérard Depardieu, Sapho, Guy Bedos, Sanseverino, Martine Billard and also by Raphaël Mezrahi, Renaud, Dominique Belpomme, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Albert Jacquard, etc.

He participated on Saturday, 19 July 2014 in a demonstration of support for the Palestinian people of Gaza, banned by the police headquarters "because of the risk of disturbing public order".

[6] Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemns the elected officials who participated in these illegal demonstrations, at the National Assembly by making explicit reference to Jacques Boutault.

While denouncing "the massacre of a population by the army of a State", he declares that he has "always mobilized to defend Jewish memory and the right for Israel to live in peace".

Jacques Boutault has affirmed his support for the Free Syrian Army (ASL) which is fighting both Daesh and the forces of Bashar Al Assad.

Short circuits are preferred, and the municipality prohibits food from GMO crops, palm oil and fish caught in deep water.

[10] Convinced that homeopathy works, he is criticized by scientific skeptics for his support for pseudo-medicines, especially after he organized a debate entitled "Complementary medicine: myth or reality?"