André Parant
André Parant is a graduate of IEP Paris and ENA. He successively held several diplomatic posts from the beginning of his career. He was posted to Morocco and the Central African Republic before joining the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995 and being appointed Consul General in San Francisco in 1996. In 2002, he became technical advisor to the diplomatic unit of the Presidency of the Republic.
In 2005, he was appointed French ambassador to Dakar, then to Lebanon in 2007. After serving as Africa advisor to the President of the Republic for three years (2009-2012), he became French ambassador to Algeria in May 2012. He then held the post of French ambassador to Egypt from 2014 to 2017 and then to Tunisia from 2020 to 2023. In October 2023, André Parant joined ESL Rivington and the Adit group as senior advisor.
