Manon Aubry (French pronunciation: ​[manɔn obʁi]; born 22 December 1989) is a French politician representing la France Insoumise. A former Oxfam France spokeswoman, she won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament election and is co-chair of The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) parliamentary grouping with Martin Schirdewan since 2019.
Aubry was born in Fréjus and studied at Saint-Exupéry High School in Saint-Raphaël in the département of Var. She is the daughter of Catherine Poggi-Aubry and Bruno Aubry, journalist, writer and teacher; she is unrelated to the Mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry. In 2005, she campaigned for the "no" in the referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty, and opposed the François Fillon reform of education during the same time. In 2006 she joined the movement against the "first job contract" (Contrat première embauche, similar to a UK zero-hour contract) and she organized the protest and blocked her high school.
She has a degree in international affairs and human rights from the faculty of "Sciences Po Paris" and was a student at the Columbia University. At Sciences Po, she presides in 2009 the local section of the National Union of Students of France (UNEF). She joined the humanitarian sector at "Doctors of the World" in Liberia. She has lived for nearly two years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she worked for an NGO about the violation of human rights.

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