90 minutes with Jean-David Levitte

Special conference by Jean-David LEVITTE, Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President Nicolas SARKOZY.

Discussion moderated by Pr. Ghassan SALAME, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po.

 

Ambassador LEVITTE has had a distinguished and outstanding career, serving on the staff of three French Presidents and holding various senior positions in the French Foreign Service. He is the incumbent Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President SARKOZY. From 2003 to 2007 he served as Ambassador to the United States, and was the French Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2000 to 2002. Jean-David LEVITTE also served as Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa of President CHIRAC from 1995 to 2000. Since 1990, he held senior positions in the French Foreign Ministry, first as Assistant Secretary for Asia and then as Undersecretary for Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. In 1988, he was designated to his first position as Ambassador and served as the French Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva from 1988 to 1990.

Jean-David LEVITTE joined the Foreign Service in 1970. He was first posted in Hong Kong and Beijing in the early 1970’s. Born in 1946 in the south of France, he received Law degree and is a graduate of Sciences Po and of the National School of Oriental Languages, where he studied Chinese and Indonesian.