Alain Briottet – CV – Translated into English (French version available upon request)

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BRIOTTET, Alain Marcel, Diplomat, Former Ambassador, Minister Plenipotentiary (E.R.), born January 28, 1939 in Paris, son of Marcel Briottet, Professor, and of Mrs., born Marie-José Murat.

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AUTHOR:  « Boston, un hiver si court », Editions du Rocher, Paris (2007)

            « Sine Die » Les Editions Illador, Versailles, France, March 2016

« L’esprit des lois et la constitution américaine, discours prononce a la Boston Public Library, Editions Bilingue, Société Historique Franco-Américaine, 1988

 

EDUCATION:

• High School of the Francs-Bourgeois, Paris

• Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris

• Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Paris

• Diploma, graduate studies in Public Law

• Laureate from the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Paris

 

CAREER:

• Attaché to the Executive Management of Cultural and Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris (1964-1968)

• Secretary of the Embassy in Turkey in charge of Press and Information (1968-70)

• Ambassador to theRepublic of the French Presidency (1970-73)

• Technical Consultant to the offices of the following successive Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Michel Jobert (1973-74), Jean Sauvagnargues (1974-76), Louis de Guiringaud (1976-78), Louis de Guiringaud (1976-78.

• Chief of Staff for Olivier Stirn, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1978-81)

• Assistant Director of the Pacific Management of Asia and Oceania ((1981-85)

• Consul General of France in Boston, MA USA (1985-90)

• Ambassador of France in Burma (1990-94)

• Ambassador of France in Finland (1994-98)

• Executive Director to the Director of the Americas and the Caribbeans (1998-99)

• Ambassador of France in Bangladesh (1999-2000)

• Coordinator for the Mission of Parliamentary Information on Srebrenica (2001)

• Ambassador Delegate to the Regional Cooperation in the Antilles-Guyana Zone (2001-03)

• Ambassador of France for the Organization of the Caribbean States (2002-03)

 

ACTIVITIES SINCE RETIREMENT:

• Administrator for the French Library in Boston, MA, USA (2003)

• Member of the International Richelieu Foundation in Ottawa, Canada

• Member of the Foreign Missions in Paris

• Vice President of the Association of Franciscan Missions (2004-07)

• Member of the Society of Diplomatic History

• Secretary General of the Georges Pompidou Association (2005-2011)

 

AWARDS: 

• Commander in the Legion of Honor and several other Foreign Orders

• Honorary Doctorate, Assumption College, Worcester, MA, USA