Dominique Riquet is a French politician from the UMP group and Mayor of Valenciennes in Northern France. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, where he is a member of the EPP (European People's Party) group and sits on the Committee on Budgets and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He is also a substitute on and Vice Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a substitute on the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Mr. Riquet is a surgeon specialising in Urology and, prior to becoming a Mayor of Valenciennes, he served as Deputy Mayor under Jean-Louis Borloo between 1989 and 1995, becoming his First Deputy between 1995 and 2001. Mr. Riquet was appointed as Mayor in 2002, when Mr. Borloo joined the French government.

Mr. Riquet is also a member of the regional council in the North-West Constituency of France and the head of the UMP group within the Council. He headed the list in his constituency in the 2009 European elections and was elected to the European Parliament along with three other colleagues: Tokia Saïfi, Jean-Paul Gauzès and Pascale Gruny.