Philippe Etienne
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Philippe Noël Marie Marc Étienne (born December 24, 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department ) is a French diplomat and since May 2017 diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron . Previously - since August 2014 - he was ambassador to Germany .
Life
Étienne completed a diploma in Serbo-Croatian at the Paris Institute national des langues et civilizations orientales and attended the elite university ENA ( Voltaire graduated in 1980 , together with François Hollande and Ségolène Royal ). He entered the service of the French Foreign Ministry and his first post was in 1981 in Belgrade , then Yugoslavia . From 1985 to 1987 he served at the French embassy in Bonn . In 1987 he worked in the office of the Assistant Minister for Europe. In 1991 he became responsible for questions of culture and science in Moscow . In 1995 he became Deputy Director in the Ministerial Office in Paris.
In 2002 Philippe Étienne was promoted to ambassador and transferred to Bucharest ( Romania ). In 2007 he served in the Paris Foreign Ministry as Cabinet Director under Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner . Since 2009 he has been the permanent representative of his country to the European Union in Brussels as the successor to Pierre Sellal . On August 22, 2014, he became the French ambassador to Germany. On September 2, 2014, he presented Federal President Joachim Gauck with his credentials . His predecessor was Maurice Gourdault-Montagne , who moved to Beijing as ambassador.
He has been a knight since 2003 and an officer of the Legion of Honor since 2013 .
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the French representation to the European Union ( memento of January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), PDF file (French)
- "For Europe as a whole - achieving better policies together" - Interview with Philippe Étienne, intercultural magazine unique (June 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://de.ambafrance.org/Botschafter-Etienne-wird-diplomatischer-Berater-von-Staatsprasident-Macron
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the French Embassy in Berlin , accessed on September 10, 2014
- ↑ Press release on the website of the State of Berlin , accessed on October 1, 2014
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Maurice Gourdault-Montagne |
French ambassador in Berlin 2014–2017 |
Anne-Marie Descôtes |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Étienne, Philippe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Étienne, Philippe Noël Marie Marc (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ambassador to Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department |