Jean-Pierre Lacroix (diplomat)

Jean-Pierre Lacroix
Lacroix in 2018
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations
Assumed office
1 April 2017[1]
Appointed byAntónio Guterres
Preceded byHervé Ladsous
Personal details
Born
Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix

2 May 1960 (1960-05-02) (age 64)[2]
NationalityFrench
Alma materESSEC Business School
Sciences Po
École nationale d'administration

Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ lakʁwa]; born 2 May 1960) is a French diplomat who has served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations since 1 April 2017. Prior to this, he worked at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for the United Nations between 2014 and 2017, and before that as France's ambassador to Sweden beginning in 2011.[3]

Lacroix replaced Hervé Ladsous of France, extending a 20-year lock on the job.[4]

  1. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Jean-Pierre Lacroix of France Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases".
  2. ^ Jean-Pierre Lacroix. United Nations.
  3. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Jean-Pierre Lacroix of France Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations". United Nations.
  4. ^ Colum Lynch (February 16, 2017), Big powers clip UN secretary general's wings, Chicago Tribune.

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