Jean-David Levitte: “Champagne is excellence in constant renewal”
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- Jean-David Levitte.
- From the Second World War to the UN Security Council Born in 1946 in Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne).
- Jean-David Levitte grew up in the immediate post-war period that marked his family.
- Son of Georges Levitte.
- A Russian Jewish immigrant who brought hundreds of children to the free zone during World War II.
- Did not know his paternal grandparents or an uncle.
- Deported in 1943 and died in the camp d? Auschwitz.
- After obtaining his law degree.
- He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
- Where he is now a professor.
- And from the National School of Modern Oriental Languages in Chinese and Indonesian.
- In 1970.
- He passed the foreign secretary hiring contest and married Marie-Cécile Jonas.
- With whom he had two daughters.
- Camille and Mathilde.
- He served France for the first time under Valéry Giscard d? Estaing.
- First in Asia (Hong Kong and Beijing) and then for six years at the Elysee.
- In 1981 he was appointed advisor to the French embassy to the United Nations in New York.
- Returning to Paris in 1984.
- He became deputy director of West Africa in the ministry and then deputy director of the cabinet of Minister Jean-Bernard Raimond in 1986.
- Between 1988 and 1991.
- He was ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
- Back in Paris.
- He was director of Asia.
- Then director general of cultural relations at the ministry.
- In 1995.
- After his election.
- Jacques Chirac called him to the Elysee Palace as a diplomatic and Sherpa adviser.
- In 2000.
- He joined New York as French ambassador to the United Nations.
- On September 11.
- 2001.
- He presided over the UN Security Council during the attacks on the World Trade Center.
- Then he was appointed ambassador of France to the United States from 2002 to 2007.
- Undoubtedly the most complicated period in history for the holder of this position: France refused to participate in the second Iraq war and must fight against the disinformation campaigns carried out out in the United States against Paris.
- He will play a crucial role in improving relations between Presidents Chirac and Bush Jr.
- In 2007.
- Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Who became President of the Republic.
- Brought Jean-David Levitte back to France.
- Again as the president’s sherpa and diplomatic adviser.
- He retired in 2012.
- He was elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 2007 in the chair of Raymond Triboulet.
- Jean-David Levitte is Commander of the Legion of Honor and Commander of Arts and Letters.
- Abroad.
- He holds the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Germany and Grand Officer of the Order of the Cedar of Lebanon.