Jonathan Lacôte (born 15 September 1972) is a French

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who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to

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from 2017 to 2021.

Biography

Jonathan Lacôte attended school in

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(United Kingdom), Treillières,

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and

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. A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Hungarian and

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...

, he entered the

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through the competition of foreign affairs adviser in 1997. He has taught as a lecturer at IEP Paris and at INALCO. After serving in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), he was appointed an adviser to the French Embassy in

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(then in the

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) in 2001 before becoming the head of the office of the French Embassy in

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, before the country's accession to independence, in 2003. A first Secretary at the French Embassy in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

in 2005, he became technical advisor in charge of European Union external relations and Franco-German cooperation in the office of the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Jean-Pierre Toy, in 2007 . He kept these functions with his successor,

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, before becoming deputy director in June 2009 and then in July 2009 - a Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for European Affairs,

Pierre Lellouche Pierre Lellouche (; born on 3 May 1951), is a lawyer and geopolitics specialist, recognized as a right-wing political figure in France. He is also known for his work as a columnist and author. Elected as a deputy in Sarcelles in 1993, he subseq ...

. Deputy Director of Personnel at the Human Resources Department of the

from 2011, he was Minister-Counselor (Deputy Head of Mission) at the French Embassy in London from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, he was appointed Ambassador of France to Armenia until August 2021 when he was replaced by Anne Louyot.

References

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