Professional Affiliation

Director for Middle East and North Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

 

Expert Bio

Anne Gueguen previously served at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs via the Concours d'Orient exams (Arabic), as a specialist on the Arab World and the United Nations Central Administration, Middle East, and North Africa Directorate from 1994 to 1997. She was also the Second Secretary in Cairo, 1997-2000 and the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York, 2000-2004 Central Administration, Middle East and North Africa Director, 2004-2006. Seconded to the United Nations (Secretariat) in New York as charge de mission (successively at the Al-Qaeda/Taliban monitoring team, at the Private Office of the Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and at the Middle East-Western Asia Division), 2006-2013, First Counsellor ni Tunis, 2013-2016, policy coordinator at the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York, 2016- 2017, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York, 2017-2020, Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs, September 2020 - October 2021, Central Administration, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Directorate, since October 2021.