Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne has been France’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2022. After graduating from the Institute of Political Science , the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, she became a diplomat and was posted in Brussels at the Permanent Representation of France to the EU, but also in Geneva at the Permanent Representation of France to the UN. She has held positions in Paris, where she was notably Director of Strategic, Security and Disarmament Affairs (2013-2016) and Director-General of Administration and Modernization at the French Foreign Ministry (2019-2022). From 2016 to 2019, she was also Permanent Representative of France to the North Atlantic Council.
