Bruno Joubert

Bruno Joubert (born July 29, 1950 ) is a French ambassador .

Life

With Rémy Maréchaux he was involved in a key position in the French Foreign Ministry in the French involvement in the Ivory Coast . From 1997 to 2001 he was employed as a director at Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE). From 2003 to 2006 he was deputy to Frédéric Salat-Baroux, Head of the Africa and Indian Ocean Department in the French Foreign Ministry.

Bruno Joubert landed with Nathalie Delapalme in Abidjan on April 16, 2004 , when the journalist Guy-André Kieffer was kidnapped in a parking lot. Guy-André Kieffer researched the corrupt conditions in the cocoa and chocolate industry, child labor and slavery on cocoa plantations and the arms trade . Kieffer was kidnapped and has disappeared to this day. Two years later, his Canadian colleague Carol Off took up the search and published the book Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet for her award-winning research . President Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivory Coast stated that in wartime, the death of a man is a " detail ".

In 2007, after the Jacques Chirac era , Bruno Joubert was replaced by Jean de Gliniasty. Bruno Joubert was a member of Nicolas Sarkozy's advisory board for the Cellule africaine de l'Élysée, whose members are called Monsieur Afrique . Bruno Joubert worked for Jean-David Levitte, Nicolas Sarkozy's Sherpa .

In 2009 he left this position and became ambassador to Morocco in the same year ; from 2012 to 2015 he was ambassador to the Holy See .

Web links

• Fanny Dassié: Ambassadeur de France au Vatican: Qui est Bruno Joubert? allgov.com, March 17, 2014, accessed January 16, 2018 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.rue89.com/2008/04/16/le-journaliste-guy-andre-kieffer-disparu-depuis-quatre-ans
2. ↑ Short biography , accessed on January 16, 2018 (French)

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-François Thibault	French ambassador in discount 2009