François Delattre is a French diplomat and senior civil servant, born in Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France, son of industrialist Louis Delattre (former leader of Compagnie Générale d'Électricité) and grandnephew of French Resistance hero André Boulloche, a pioneer of Franco-German reconciliation. He is married with two children. Delattre graduated from Sciences Po (early 1980s), earned degrees in international law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and in German from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and completed the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in the 1989 promotion. His career includes early roles such as attaché at the French Embassy in Bonn (1989–1991, witnessing German reunification), head of the strategic unit in the Ministry's Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Directorate (1991–1993), technical advisor to Foreign Minister Alain Juppé (1993–1995, focusing on transatlantic defense and the Bosnia crisis), and diplomatic advisor at the Élysée Palace under President Chirac (1995–1998, involved in Bosnia and the Dayton Accords). He later served as head of press and communications at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1998–2002), deputy chief of staff to Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (2002–2004, during the Iraq War and Iran nuclear issues), Consul General in New York (2004–2008), Ambassador to Canada (2008–2011), and Ambassador to the United States (2011–2014). From 2014 to 2019, he was France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, chairing the Security Council multiple times. He then served as Secretary General of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2019–2022) and has been France's Ambassador to Germany since August 2022. Additional roles include independent board member of Orano (since 2020) and former board member of IHEDN and the UN International School. No known controversies, legal issues, or political affiliations beyond his diplomatic service across administrations.