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Pierre SELLAL

  • President
  • Fondation de France

Bio


Pierre Sellal is a French Ambassador. He has devoted a large part of his career to European affairs, holding several successive positions in Brussels and serving for over ten years as France’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Union (until the end of 2017). He also held the two highest positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chief of Staff to the Minister from 1997 to 2002, then Secretary-General of the Ministry from 2009 to 2014). He was elevated to the rank of Ambassador of France in 2008. Elected President of the Fondation de France in 2017, his mandate was renewed in 2021 and again in 2025. He chaired the association Le Siècle from 2021 to 2024. Since 2018, he has been serving as Senior Counsel at the law firm August-Debouzy.