Jean-François Valette

Jean-François Valette (born July 5, 1952 ) is a French ambassador .

Life

Jean-François Valette majored in history at the École normal supérieure de Lyon , attended the École nationale d'administration from 1980 to 1982 and received his doctorate in 1982 on the subject of Henri François d'Aguesseau .

He joined the field service in 1973 and was an attaché from 1973 to 1979. From 1982 to 1986 at the Embassy of Antananarivo in Madagascar , where he was promoted to first Embassy Secretary in 1983. From 1986 to 1988 he was employed at the Quai d'Orsay in the Economics and Finance Department. From 1988 to 1991 he was employed as a cultural attaché at the Consulate General in Hong Kong. From 1992 to 1994 he was Deputy Head of Human Resources at the Quai d'Orsay. From 1994 to 1999 he was accredited in Ottawa , where he was promoted through the second to the first embassy secretary. From July 1999 to September 2003 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Lome inGnassingbé Eyadéma . Jean-François Valette knew that the Togolese military were recruited from the president's ethnic group . In order to prevent the development cooperation with France from being blatantly used for repression , he recommended the delivery of two patrol boats for the navy to monitor the port of Lomé. From 2003 to 2006 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Yaoundé to the government of Peter Mafany Musonge in Cameroon . From 2007 to 2009 he was prefect in the Ariège department . Jean-François Valette was accredited to the government in Congo by Denis Sassou-Nguesso on December 14, 2009 with the rank of Envoy Plenipotentiary 2 Class . He held this office until 2014. In 2015 he became ambassador of the European Union in Ivory Coast .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Monde diplomatique , Mars 2003, DE LA MANIPULATION DES IDENTITÉS ETHNIQUES, Au Togo, le dinosaure et le syndrome ivoirien
2. ↑ La France au Cameroun, List chronologique des ambassadeurs ( Memento of the original of June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ La France au Congo, M. Jean-François VALETTE, ambassadeur extraordinaire et plénipotentiaire à Brazzaville  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Chronology of the Ambassadeurs de France au Congo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .    
4. ^ Diplomacy: Jean-François Valette quitte le Congo. European Commission , February 14, 2014, accessed June 20, 2016 (French). 
5. ↑ Presentation of the lettres de créance de Jean-François Valette, ambassadeur de l'Union européenne en Côte d'Ivoire (13/01/2015). Agence d'information d'Afrique Centrale, January 13, 2015, accessed June 20, 2016 (French). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Regis Koetschet	French ambassador in Lomé from July 1999 to September 2003	Alain Holleville
Jean-Paul Veziant	French ambassador to Yaoundé from 2003 to 2006	Georges Serre
Nicolas Normand	French ambassador in Brazzaville from 2009 to 2014
	Ambassador of the European Union in Ivory Coast since 2015