Michel Duclos

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Michel Duclos

Michel Raymond Jean Duclos (born August 20, 1949 in Lisieux , Département Calvados ) is a French diplomat and ambassador a. D. Duclos works as a political advisor and author. He is married to the author and lawyer Isabelle Hausser -Duclos.

career

Michel Raymond Jean Duclos is the son of Jeanne Larue and Pierre Duclos, an employee of the French embassy in Moscow .

He began his diplomatic career in 1970 as an attaché at the Tunis embassy . From 1971 to 1974 he worked at the La Valletta embassy . He attended the Grande Ecole Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Paris , where he met with the dissertation on Pierre Mendes France in 1978 to the doctor doctorate was. From 1978 to 1981 he worked for the French Ministry of Defense . From 1982 to 1987 he was employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Center d'analyse et prévison (Center for Analysis and Forecasting), from 1984 as Deputy Director. From 1987 to 1991 he was a consultant at the embassy in Moscow and from 1991 to 1994 he spent the same position in Bonn . From 1995 to 1998 he worked in the Foreign Ministry in the “Strategy, Security and Disarmament” department. From 1998 to 2000 Duclos was the permanent representative of France to the Western European Union and from 2000 to 2002 French representative of the Political and Security Committee of the EU .

From October 19, 2006 to September 13, 2009, Duclos was ambassador to Damascus . Subsequently, until May 2012, he was diplomatic advisor for the French overseas territories ( Outre-mer et des collectivités locales ) in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior . After the election of François Hollande as French President and the appointment of the Ayrault government , Michel Duclos was sent as ambassador to Bern , Switzerland.

In his book "La longue nuit syrienne" ("The Long Syrian Night"), published in France in 2019, Duclos takes stock of numerous unsuccessful attempts by the West to influence Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and to work towards an end to the Syrian war . Duclos is special advisor to the French think tank Institut Montaigne and a founding member of the Baghdad Policy Club , an initiative for multilateral political solutions in the Middle East.

predecessor Office successor
Jean-François Girault French Ambassador to Syria
October 19, 2006 to September 13, 2009 		Eric Chevallier
Alain Catta French ambassador in Bern from
August 2012 to 2016 		René Roudaut

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jacques Lafitte, Stephen Taylor Qui est qui en France 2000–1975, p. 644
  2. ↑ Michel Duclos Ambassadeur de France. L'Hebdo , September 13, 2013, accessed October 17, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Son Excellence M. Michel Duclos - La France en Suisse on ambafrance-ch.org
  4. ^ Michel Duclos: La longue nuit syrienne. Dix années de diplomatie impuissante . L'observatoire, Paris 2019.
  5. ^ Livre international - "La longue nuit syrienne" by Michel Duclos. August 10, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 (French).
  6. ^ Baghdad Policy Club. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Duclos, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duclos, Michel Raymond Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisieux