New Permanent Representative of France Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Céline Jurgensen, the new Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Jurgensen served as the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in Rome, including to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, since 2020. She was also posted at the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York from 2010 to 2012.

From 2016 to 2020, Ms. Jurgensen was the Director for Strategy and Policy at the Military Applications Division of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, a French scientific and research organization.  From 2014 to 2016, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, International Organizations, Human Rights and Francophonie Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2012, she joined the Ministry of Defence as Deputy Director for Strategic Affairs.

Ms. Jurgensen joined the French Foreign Ministry in 2003 and was assigned to the Legal Affairs Directorate.  She graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the National School of Public Administration, class of 2003.  In addition to her professional activities, Ms. Jurgensen has lectured at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and at the Aix-Marseille University. 

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