Biography

Brigitte Girardin, Minister delegate for Cooperation, Development and Francophony

Born on 12 January 1953 in Verdun (Meuse)
Married, two children

Education

Career

At the Foreign Ministry

Researcher in the Personnel and General Administration Directorate (1976-78)
Responsible for economic relations between France and Central and East African countries in the African and Malagasy Affairs Directorate (1978-81)
Responsible for monitoring the European Economic Community (EEC) enlargement negotiations to bring in Spain and Portugal, in the Economic Cooperation department (1981-82)
Responsible for UNCTAD affairs in the United Nations and International Organizations Directorate (1982-83)
First Secretary at France’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (United States) (1983-86)
Responsible for negotiations on the agreement on Maritime delimitation and fishing agreements at the Legal Affairs Directorate (1989-93)

Other posts

Head of the private office of Camille Cabana
(Minister Delegate attached to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Privatization, then Minister Delegate attached to the Prime Minister) (1986-88)
Adviser then deputy principal private secretary of Dominique Perben (Minister for the Overseas Departments and Territories) (1993-95)
Adviser to the Minister, then principal private secretary of Jean-Jacques de Peretti (Minister for Overseas France) (1996-97)
Senior Administrator of France’s Southern and Antarctic Territories (1998-2000)
Adviser on Overseas France to the Presidency of the Republic (2000-2002)
Minister for Overseas France from 2002 to 2005