Gérard Araud
| Gérard Araud | |
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| Ambassador of France to the United States | |
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Assumed office September 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Preceded by | François Delattre |
| Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| President |
Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande |
| Secretary-General | Ban Ki-moon |
| Preceded by | Jean-Maurice Ripert |
| Succeeded by | François Delattre |
| Ambassador of France to Israel | |
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In office 2003–2006 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Preceded by | Jacques Gabriel Huntzinger |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Michel Casa |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 20, 1953 Marseille, France |
| Alma mater |
École polytechnique École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique Institut d'études politiques de Paris École nationale d'administration |
| Profession | diplomat |
Gérard Araud (born February 20, 1953) is a French diplomat and the current ambassador of France to the United States. He has also served as France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations as well as Director General for Political and Security Affairs of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Gérard Araud was born in Marseille. He holds engineering degrees from the École polytechnique and the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique. Araud graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and is also an alumnus of the École nationale d'administration (class of 1982).
Araud's first posting was at the embassy of France in Tel Aviv as First Secretary, from 1982 to 1984. He was then assigned to Paris, at the Analysis and Policy Planning Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for Middle East issues. From 1987 to 1991 he was Counselor at the Embassy of France in Washington, where he was also responsible for Middle East issues. He was Assistant Director of European Community Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1993 and became Diplomatic Advisor to the French Minister of Defense François Léotard in 1993.
Araud joined the French delegation to the North Atlantic Council (NATO) in Brussels in 1995 as Deputy Permanent Representative. He became Director for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000. He was Ambassador of France to Israel from 2003 to 2006.
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