Anne-Marie Descôtes
Anne-Marie Descôtes (born December 5, 1959 in Lyon ) is a French diplomat who has been France's ambassador to Germany since June 2017 .
biography
Anne-Marie Descôtes is the younger daughter of a teacher from France who placed great importance on acquiring language skills at an early age. At the age of 12 she took part in a school exchange with a German host family who lived in a settlement near Frankfurt-Höchst that was built by war refugees . She made this first international experience for a few years.
Anne-Marie Descôtes studied German in Hamburg and Berlin (at the FU in Dahlem ), but lived in Berlin-Neukölln on Herrfurthplatz during this time . Her studies ended with a master’s degree , and she completed her degree in art history with a bachelor’s degree . After completing her studies, Anne-Marie Descôtes worked as a German teacher for two years and used every opportunity to get to know both East and West Germany . During this time she visited Erfurt , Leipzig , Torgau (where she took part in a three-week summer camp in a youth hostel ) and East Berlin several times . She also worked for three years as a cultural attachée in the French embassy in Bonn (1987–1990). During this time Descôtes saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and visited Berlin a week later. In the summer of 1990 she toured the GDR with a friend and visited the city of Weimar in order to “physically experience the awakening at that time”.
She later graduated from the French elite universities ENS and ENA (graduation year 1994 Saint-Exupéry ).
Anne-Marie Descôtes is married and has one daughter (* 2002 in Brussels).
Political career
After studying at ENA, Anne-Marie Descôtes was appointed to the French Foreign Ministry , where she was primarily responsible for EU external relations from 1994 to 1997 and then in the European Cooperation Department for EU internal affairs, before becoming a specialist advisor in the minister’s personal advisory team for European Affairs, Pierre Moscovici , was (1997-2001). From 2001 to 2005 she worked as a specialist advisor for the EU expansion, Central and Southeastern Europe in the permanent representation of France to the European Union in Brussels . She was then advisor to the French ambassador in Washington, DC for European and former USSR affairs (2005–2008) and then, from 2008 to 2013, director of the Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger (Agency for French Schools Abroad , AEFE). As Head of the General Department for Globalization, Culture, Education and International Development in the French Foreign Ministry, 2013-2017 she was responsible for the Directorate-General's network, its actors and partners and for their work in the service of economic and influence diplomacy, the environment and sustainable development.
On June 6, 2017, Anne-Marie Descôtes was appointed Ambassador of France to Germany. The official apartment is located in the embassy building on Pariser Platz in Berlin.
Awards
She has been a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite since 2009 and a Knight in the Legion of Honor since 2014 .
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the French Embassy in Berlin
- IE Anne-Marie Descôtes , Diplomatic Magazine of November 23, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Anne-Marie Descôtes new ambassador of France in Germany , message from the French Embassy Berlin dated September 7, 2017 (requested January 1, 2018).
- ↑ a b c d An old love . In: Berliner Zeitung , 5./6. May 2018, pp. 10/11.
- ↑ See the biography of Ambassador Anne-Marie Descôtes , communication from the French Embassy in Berlin of July 20, 2017 (requested January 1, 2018).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Philippe Etienne |
French Ambassador in Berlin 2017– |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Descôtes, Anne-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ambassador to Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |