Hervé Ladsous (born 1950) is the former
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for
Peacekeeping Operations. He was appointed to this position by the
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister ...
on 2 September 2011, following
Alain Le Roy.
Ladsous has a degree in law and a diploma in Chinese and
Indonesian Malay from the
National School of Oriental Studies in
Paris.
[
In 1971 he joined the Foreign Ministry of France and was stationed in Hong Kong, ]Canberra
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, Beijing, and Geneva. He also acted as Deputy-Director General of the Department for the Americas and served in Haiti
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as ad interim Chargé d'affaires. Afterwards, he was appointed as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City.[
Ladsous's posts in France’s Foreign Service include Chief of Staff to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, ambassador to ]China
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, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry and Director General for Asia and Oceania, as well as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.[
He is married and has three children.
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References
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French diplomats
Ambassadors of France to Indonesia
Ambassadors of France to East Timor
Ambassadors of France to China
United Nations officials
Under-Secretaries-General of the United Nations
Living people
1950 births