Bernard de Faubournet de Montferrand

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Bernard Vincent Pierre de Faubournet de Montferrand (born August 6, 1945 ) is a French diplomat. From October 2007 to February 2011 he was ambassador of the French Republic to Germany. Since December 2010 he has been President of the Platform of the Regional Art Contemporain Fund (FRAC).

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He studied at the ENA and at the Institut d'études politiques and was accepted into the diplomatic service in 1974. First he worked on economic and financial matters. From 1979 to 1982 he worked for the French military government in West Berlin .

In 1989, Michel Rocard made his appointment as Ambassador of the French Republic in Singapore . From 1993 to 1995 he acted as foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Édouard Balladur . Montferrand then became the French ambassador to the Netherlands ( The Hague ), India ( New Delhi ) and from 2003 to 2005 in Japan ( Tokyo ). He then worked as an advisor to the government and was a member of the Council for Foreign Affairs. In 2007, after Nicolas Sarkozy's election victory , he was sent to Berlin as the successor to Claude Martin as ambassador . In March 2011, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne replaced him as ambassador in Berlin.

De Faubournet de Montferrand speaks German, English and Spanish and is married.

Montferrand also wrote several books on French foreign policy and diplomacy.

Works

  • La France et l'étranger (1988)
  • La vertu des nations (1997)
  • Défendre l'Europe (1999)
  • Diplomacy, des volontés françaises (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Office: List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF; 391 kB)
  2. ^ France today, September 12, 2007
  3. ↑ Foreign Office: List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF; 391 kB)
  4. ↑ Diplomatic Depeche, October 2007, p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Montferrand, Bernard de Faubournet de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montferrand, Bernard Vincent Pierre de Faubournet de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ambassador to Germany
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1945