Damien Abad (born 5 April 1980 in Nîmes, Gard) is a French politician, member of the French National Assembly representing Ain. He was a member of the European Parliament, representing South-East France.
His father was a buyer for Perrier, from a family that had fled Franco's Spain, his mother was a social worker, both were rather left-wing, still when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981. He likes to say in interviews that one of his grandfathers was a miner in Saint-Étienne.
Former student of high school Alphonse-Daudet, major Sciences Po Bordeaux, graduated from Sciences Po Paris (2004), he fails twice at the grand oral ÉNA.. He became in charge of studies on budgetary and fiscal issues at the UDF group in March 2006 and then at the New Center group at the National Assembly. From 2008 to 2009, he is also a Docent in Public Finance at Sciences Po Paris President of the Young Centrists until his election, Abad worked for the New Centre group in the National Assembly on fiscal and budget issues.