Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand (born 28 June 1973) is a French-born Romanian politician and businesswoman. Since October 2020, she is Mayor of Bucharest's Sector 1.

Armand first ran for Mayor of Sector 1 in the 2016 Romanian local elections on behalf of Save Bucharest Union (USB), a local party she had co-founded in 2015, eventually losing narrowly after having been announced as winner by the exit polls. From July 2019 until November 2020 she was a Member of the European Parliament.

Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand^[1] was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, France, where her father was undergoing alternative military service as a mathematics teacher.^[2] Her family was from Vichy,^[3] where she also attended primary and secondary school. She studied at the École Centrale Paris and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Sergiu Moroianu,^[2] a Romanian mathematician.^[4] She married Moroianu in 1997 and moved to Bucharest in 1999.^[5] In the following years, she lived some years in France and Germany, before settling in Bucharest again in 2003.^[1]

In 2002, Armand worked for Airbus in France and Germany, managing part of the A380^[4] project management team.^[2] In 2005, she became IT Director of Distrigaz Sud, the Romanian branch of gas distribution giant GDF Suez, later moving to Paris as Innovation Director for GDF Suez Europe.^[2] Between September 2013 and March 2017, Armand was the head of the Romanian and Bulgarian branches of French engineering company Egis.^[4]

She acquired Romanian citizenship in 2015.^[6]

Immediately after entering politics in 2016, Armand was accused that, in her capacity of director of Egis Romania, she personally profited from a motorway building contract gone awry between the Romanian state company CNAIR and Bechtel Corporation. Armand denies vigorously any involvement in the Bechtel affair.^[22] She responded that she started working for Egis only in September 2013, months after CNAIR's contract with Bechtel ended (in March 2013); that Egis verified the quality of the works of Bechtel, was not bound by contractual links to Bechtel, and defended the interests of its client CNAIR;^[23] that moreover she was not a stakeholder in Egis. In spite of her explanations, Armand is frequently depicted in some media venues as having "cashed 50 million dollars from Bechtel".^{[citation needed]}

Armand argues that Romania needs a change of the political class.^[24] She wrote an open letter to President Klaus Iohannis in which she asked the two main parties of Romania (the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party, both of which have roots in the National Salvation Front) to apologize for their involvement in the June 1990 Mineriad and to remove former president Ion Iliescu and former Prime Minister Petre Roman from public life.^[25]

Armand says she does not believe in the left–right politics paradigm, arguing that, in Romania, the money wasted due to corruption is far higher than the differences between standard left and right policies.^[26] Nevertheless, she considers herself, within the French political context, a person that is naturally right-wing, but that Romania currently has many people who need the help of the state and that these people, who did not adapt to the changes and are no longer useful to society, should be re-integrated.^[27]