Claude Blanchemaison

Claude Blanchemaison, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Claude Blanchemaison (born March 16, 1944 in Touraine ) is a former French ambassador .

Life

Claude Blanchemaison studied law ; He holds degrees from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales , the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . He received his doctorate in 1973 on François Rabelais from the École nationale d'administration .

He joined the foreign service on June 1, 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he worked for the French government in Brussels , where he was promoted from first class secretary to second class advisor in 1978.

From 1982 to 1985 he was Deputy Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee on European Economic Cooperation. On February 15, 1985 he was accepted into the French Order of Merit. From 1985 to 1986 he worked in the Asia and Oceania department and from 1987 to 1989 in the Far East department as department head. On December 31, 1992 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor . From February to October 1993 he headed the Europe department and from 1993 to 1996 the Asia and Oceania department at the Quai d'Orsay . On July 21, 2003, Claude Blanchemaison was appointed head of the Direction générale de la coopération internationale et du développement (DGCID), a development cooperation agency subordinate to the French Foreign Ministry .

Claude Blanchemaison was appointed Secretary General of the French Presidency of the European Union on June 27, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://etranger.sgencfdt.free.fr/actu/blanchemaison.htm

predecessor	Office	successor
Pierre Boyer	French Chargé d'affaires in Pretoria September 1985 - May 1986	Pierre Boyer
	French ambassador in Hanoi 1989–1992
Philippe Petit	French ambassador in New Delhi 1996–2000	Bernard de Faubournet de Montferrand
Hubert Colin de Verdière	French ambassador in Moscow 2000–2003	Jean Cadet
Olivier Schrameck	French ambassador in Madrid January 2005 - June 27, 2007	Bruno Delaye