Nom complet
Delphine Borione
Profession
Ambassador for Human Rights
Entreprise
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Biographie

Delphine Borione is the Ambassador for Human Rights responsible for international issues relating to the Holocaust, looted property and remembrance since February 2021. She is a graduate from the French National School of Public Administration (ENA), and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Throughout her career, she held numerous bilateral and multilateral positions in the areas of sustainable development, economic, cultural and educational cooperation. From 2017 to 2020, Delphine Borione was Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Organizations in Rome (FAO, WFP and IFAD). Previously, she has held positions as Senior Deputy Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in charge of social and civil affairs; Director of Cultural Cooperation and French Language Promotion at the French Foreign Ministry; Ambassador of France to Kosovo; Cultural Counsellor and head of the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the French Embassy in Italy. She was tasked with preparing the G8 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and for the Presidency of the Republic under Jacques Chirac, to whom she was also Adviser on Multilateral Affairs. She has worked for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the UN World Food Programme. She was a key negotiator of the UNFCCC on climate change in 1992. She is a Chevalier in the Legion of Honour of the French Republic and Commander in the Order of Agricultural Merit. In addition to French, she speaks English, Italian, German and Spanish.

Delphine Borione