Luis Vassy

Luis Vassy
Vassy in 2019
Director of Sciences Po
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 September 2024
Preceded byMathias Vicherat
Jean Bassères (interim)
Permanent representative of France to the OPCW
In office
9 September 2019 – 27 October 2022
Preceded byPhilippe Lalliot
Succeeded byFrançois Alabrune
Personal details
Born (1980-01-10) 10 January 1980 (age 44)
Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
Alma materENS Cachan
Sciences Po
ENA

Luis Vassy (born 10 January 1980) is a French high ranking civil servant, diplomat, and director of Sciences Po.[1]

He was the cabinet director to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs between July 2022 and July 2024. Prior to that he served as Ambassador of France to the Netherlands and permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2019 until 2022. In September 2024, he was named the director of Sciences Po Paris.[2]

Biography

Early life and education

Vassy was born on 10 January 1980 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, an eastern suburb of Paris in Île-de-France. The son of an Uruguayan agricultural engineer father and an Argentine legal expert mother, both political refugees, he grew up in low-rent housing in Fontenay-sous-Bois.[3][4] He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.[5] He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Sciences Po. He is an alum of the École nationale d'administration, where he was classmates with future-President of France, Emmanuel Macron and his predecessor at Sciences Po, Mathias Vicherat.[6]

Career

From July 2022 to July 2024, Vassy was the chief of staff of the ministers of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and Stéphane Séjourné.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Sciences Po Paris : qui est Luis Vassy, le nouveau directeur de l'école ?". Le Point (in French). 21 September 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Sciences Po : le diplomate Luis Vassy désigné directeur, après des mois de crise de gouvernance" (in French). 20 September 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ Delesalle-Stolper, Sonia. "Luis Vassy, diplomate binational". Libération (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  4. ^ Larnaudie, Mathieu (4 April 2018). Les Jeunes Gens : Enquête sur la promotion Senghor. Grasset. pp. 115–122. ISBN 978-2246815099.
  5. ^ Elsa Trujillo (9 December 2022). "Les appuis de Luis Vassy, tour de contrôle de Catherine Colonna au Quai d'Orsay". La Lettre A (in French). Retrieved 9 December 2022..
  6. ^ "Sciences Po : le diplomate Luis Vassy désigné directeur, après des mois de crise de gouvernance" (in French). 20 September 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  7. ^ Luis Vassy en passe d’être nommé directeur de cabinet de Catherine Colonna, Acteurs publics, 20 July 2022.