Marcel Escure

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Marcel Escure (born October 6, 1963 in Bordeaux ) is a French diplomat .

Life

Marcel Escure attended the universities of Bordeaux and completed his studies there with a Maîtrise de Lettres Classiques . In 1988 he finished his training at the École nationale d'administration .

In the same year Escure became secretary of the French embassy in Lima , Peru . In 1991 he moved to the French Foreign Ministry in Paris , where he worked in the field of North-South economic cooperation, namely the African Development Bank and the CFA Franc Zone . From 1994 to 1996 he was counselor in Phnom Penh in Cambodia and from 1997 to 1998 counselor in Beirut in Lebanon . He then worked again at the Foreign Ministry in Paris, now as a sub-director in the Directorate for Strategic Affairs. Escure became Counselor in Dakar in Senegal in 2002 . In 2003 he was one of the founders of the Center Europe-Afrique pour la prévention des conflits , a European-African center for conflict prevention. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as counselor in Abidjan , Ivory Coast .

Subsequently, he was initially deputy chief of protocol until in 2008 he became head of department for Francophone Affairs in the General Directorate for Political Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Paris. In this role he was responsible, among other things, for summits and activities of the organization of the Francophonie in Africa, as well as for the transition process after the coup by the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy in Niger .

In 2011, Manuel Escure became the French ambassador to Tanzania . In this position he succeeded Jacques Champagne de Labriolle . Escure was also involved in think tanks in France and in meetings of the French-speaking world in Royaumont during this time . In 2014 Malika Berak succeeded him as ambassador to Tanzania. Escure was then involved in diplomatic missions in Niger and Lagos in Nigeria . In 2015 he succeeded Antoine Anfré as the French ambassador to Niger . In this capacity he was followed in 2019 Alexandre Garcia after.

Marcel Escure has been married since 1994 and has three children.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Biography of M. Marcel Escure. Ambassade de France à Niamey, September 29, 2015, archived from the original on December 17, 2018 ; accessed on October 24, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ List chronologique des ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, ministres plénipoteniaires et chargés d'affaires de France à l'étranger depuis 1945. (PDF) In: France Diplomatie. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development , p. 101 , accessed December 10, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Ambassadeurs de France en Tanzanie depuis 1961. Ambassade de France à Dar es Salam, September 29, 2014, accessed on December 10, 2016 (French).
  4. ↑ Marcel Escure, new ambassadeur de France au Niger par défaut. In: ActuNiger. August 24, 2015, accessed December 10, 2016 (French).
  5. ^ Diplomacy: Alexandre Garcia, le nouvel ambassadeur de France au Niger, entre en fonction. In: ActuNiger. January 16, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Mahamane Chékaré Ismaël: remise de distinction à l'ambassadeur de France en fin de mission au Niger: SE Marcel Escure, Commandeur dans l'ordre du Mérite du Niger. In: Niger Diaspora. December 24, 2018, accessed January 20, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Escure, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux