Pierre Cohen (born 20 March 1950) is a member of the National Assembly of France.
He represents the Haute-Garonne department,[1] and is a member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group.
Cohen was born in Bizerte, a town in North Tunisia to a Tunisian Jewish father and French Catholic mother.
[2] In the 2008 French municipal elections, Cohen became mayor of Toulouse when he narrowly defeated UMP incumbent Jean-Luc Moudenc.
However, at the next elections in 2014, Moudenc defeated Cohen in a rematch to re-take the job.