Loïc Hennekinne (20 September 1940 – 18 April 2020) was a French government official and diplomat.
Biography
Hennekinne studied at
Sciences Po
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and the
École nationale d'administration
The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...
in
Paris
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. He was arrested in 1962 for attending a meeting of Patrie en Progrès.
He was an advisor to French Foreign Minister
Roland Dumas from 1988 to 1989, then a diplomatic advisor to President
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former First ...
from 1989 to 1991.
Hennekinne served numerous French ambassadorial roles, including in
Indonesia
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,
Japan
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,
Canada
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, and
Italy
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. He also served as Inspector General and Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After the end of his public career, Hennekinne joined the Fondation Res Publica, founded by
, and was on its scientific council. He served as an advisor to
Arnaud Montebourg during the
2017 French Socialist Party presidential primary on foreign policy issues.
Distinctions
*Ambassadeur de France (1999)
*Officer of the
Ordre national du Mérite
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(1998)
*Commander of the
Legion of Honour
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(2007)
References
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1940 births
2020 deaths
20th-century French diplomats
21st-century French diplomats
Ambassadors of France to Canada
Ambassadors of France to Indonesia
Ambassadors of France to Italy
Ambassadors of France to Japan
École nationale d'administration alumni
People from Bordeaux