Laurence Auer

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Laurence Auer (born August 26, 1959 in Geneva ) is a French diplomat . She has been the French ambassador to North Macedonia since 2013 .

Life

She studied at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and with a Fulbright scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley . She has degrees in Political Science , Arabic Language and English Literature and postgraduate studies in Middle East Studies.

Diplomatic career

In 1984 she started at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication , and in 1985 she moved to the Development Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development . In 1986 she was employed at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development , and in 1988 in the cabinet of the State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment at the time of Environment Minister Brice Lalonde ( PSU ). From 1991 to 1995 she was Counselor in the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations under the Permanent Representative Jean-Bernard Mérimée , and from 1995 to 1999 Chief Administrator of the Union for the Mediterranean Department of the European Commission . There she was responsible for the follow-up of the Barcelona Process, for example. From June 1999 to September 2000 she was press spokesperson for local politics and the Conference of Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Union (IGC) at the European Commission in Brussels , from September 2000 to May 2002 she was deputy press spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry under Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine ( PS ) and from June 2002 to August 2003 technical advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin ( UMP ). From June 2003 to September 2006 she was deputy press spokeswoman for French President Jacques Chirac (first under the then press spokeswoman Catherine Colonna , later under Jérôme Bonnafont ).

From September 2006 to September 2010 she was director of the Institut français in London and cultural embassy councilor at the French embassy there. She was General Secretary of the entire cultural institute from September 2010 to January 2013 in Paris .

In November 2012 she was appointed French ambassador to Skopje . She took up the position in January 2013 as the successor to Jean-Claude Schlumberger .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Laurence Auers ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on seeita.net (English)
  2. ^ Annette Jünemann : The Mediterranean policy of the European Union: Democratization programs between normal goal setting and realpolitical pragmatism . In: France Yearbook 1997 . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1997, ISBN 978-3-322-95117-5 , page 95.
  3. ↑ Appointment decree of November 29, 2012 (French)
personal data
SURNAME Auer, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva