Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
Senior Advisor
ESL
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne is a career diplomat, and has alternated between high-level responsibilities abroad and in central administration. He has been French Ambassador to Japan (1998-2002), the United Kingdom (2007-2011), Germany (2011-2014), and China (2014-2017).
In Paris, he was spokesperson for the Quai d’Orsay (1991-1993) and deputy director and then director of the cabinet of Alain Juppé, when the latter was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1995) and then Prime Minister (1995-1997).
He then became diplomatic advisor and G7/G8 Sherpa to Jacques Chirac at the Elysée (2002-2007), and finally Secretary General of the Quai d’Orsay (2017-2019). At the end of his diplomatic career, he joined the Boston Consulting Group and the Adit Group and ESL Rivington as Senior Advisor in October 2023.
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