Jérôme Bonnafont took up his post as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York on 17 March 2025. Prior to this appointment, he served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Office in Geneva and international organizations in Switzerland from September 2021. Concurrently, he acted as rapporteur-general of the
États généraux de la diplomatie, a national consultation launched by President
Emmanuel Macron and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Catherine Colonna, which led to the March 2023 reform plan aimed at strengthening France’s diplomatic network. His previous assignments include serving as advisor to Prime Minister
Édouard Philippe in 2020, Director of the North Africa and Middle East Department at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2015–2019), Ambassador to Spain (2012–2015), Chief of Staff to Minister for Foreign Affairs
Alain Juppé (2011–2012), and Ambassador to India (2007–2011). Between 1997 and 2007, he was advisor for global affairs and spokesperson for the Presidency under President
Jacques Chirac. A graduate of the
Denis Diderot class of the
École nationale d’administration (ENA, 1986), Bonnafont has held numerous diplomatic and administrative posts, including assignments in New Delhi, Kuwait, the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York, the Department of Legal Affairs, and the Ministry of the Environment. ==Officeholders==