Alain Holleville

Alain André Aurélien Holleville (born December 9, 1953 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme ) is a French diplomat, most recently with the rank of ambassador .

Life

Holleville studied new literature, has a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and is a graduate of the ENS . From 1978 to 1979 Holleville worked in the education sector, from 1979 to 1980 for the French state. In 1980 he was trained for admission to the ENA , which he attended from 1981 to 1983. His graduating class (French: doctorate ) 1983 is called Solidarité .

On June 1, 1983, he became head of the Ministry of Transport, Urban Development and Housing. From 1983 to 1987 he worked in the Maritime Ministry and was seconded to the Foreign Ministry on October 1, 1987 , where he worked in the Economics and Finance Department until 1989. From 1989 to 1989 he was an employee of French President François Mitterrand . From 1990 to 1992 he headed the Office of the Minister for European Affairs. From 1992 to 1995 he was second counselor in Washington , from 1995 to 1998 first counselor in Budapest . From 1998 to 2000 he was cultural attaché in Rabat , from August 2000 to October 2002 Council Minister. From October 2002 to March 2003 he was Secretary General of the 22nd Conference of Heads of State of Africa and France.

During Holleville's tenure as France's ambassador to Togo from October 2003 to October 2007, civil war raged in Ivory Coast . Relations between the two governments were temporarily tarnished when it became known that weapons for the Ivory Coast government had landed in Togo, bombing French positions in Bouaké on November 6, 2004 and killing nine French soldiers. On July 17, 2004, two Belarusian Mil Mi-8 attack helicopters and two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s were flown over Lomé Airport to Ivory Coast. The government of the dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma rejected this allegation and Holleville announced in mid-November that the fighter planes destroyed in the French counter-attack would not be replaced.

From November 2007 to October 2011 he was ambassador to Niger .

Alain Holleville is married and has four children. In 2003 he became a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite and in 2006 a knight of the Legion of Honor .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography de Son Excellence M. Alain Holleville. In: Website of the French Embassy in Niger. Archived from the original on July 22, 2009 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 (French). 
2. ^ Andreas Mehler , Henning Melber , Klaas Van Walraven: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara , Africa yearbook. Brill, 2005 - 495 pp.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-François Valette	French Ambassador in Lomé September 19, 2003 to November 20, 2007	Dominique Renaux
François Ponge	French Ambassador in Niamey November 8, 2007 to October 17, 2011	Christophe Bouchard