Apolline de Malherbe

Apolline de Malherbe (born 2 June 1980) is a French broadcast journalist who is a presenter on the 24-hour rolling news and weather channel BFM TV.

Biography Education

After studying the humanities, de Malherbe completed a MAS in social politics at Sciences Po, During this campaign, Apolline de Malherbe was a member of the pôle républicain group, which worked to criticise republican policy, and included people of various political parties and viewpoints who all supported the candidacy of Jean-Pierre Chevènement. The group was chaired by writer Max Gallo, and had the following notable members: Natacha Polony, Karim Zéribi, Paul-Marie Couteaux, Élisabeth Lévy, Rémy Auchedé and Bertrand Renouvin, who founded the French political movement Nouvelle Action Royaliste. which won the Edgar Faure political work prize. She then joined the NextRadioTV group, subsequently becoming a producer for BFM radio. In the same year, she joined BFM TV as chief editor, alongside Ruth Elkrief, Olivier Mazerolle and Hedwige Chevrillon.

From 2008 to 2011, she was an on-the-scene reporter for BFM TV in Washington.

In 2012, on returning to France, she started working for TV channel Canal+.

She returned in to BFM TV in 2013 as political editor and interviewer for the show à la maison. At present, she presents BFM Politique, and has appeared on the French political and economic TV show Bourdin Direct, presented by Jean-Jacques Bourdin.

Personal life Apolline de Malherbe is the great-granddaughter of Dolorès de Malherbe, who was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding a Jewish child in Marçon during the occupation. and has two sons, born in 2007 and 2010. In January 2017, de Malherbe was heavily pregnant with a third child.

In 2015, Apolline de Malherbe became a sponsor of the 6th delegation of descendants of the Righteous Among the Nations, which was organised by the France-Israel Foundation.