This event is open to GW students and members of the GW community only.
Please join us for a conversation with Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the United States, organized by the Transatlantic Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs. In the wake of the United Nations General Assembly, Amb. Bili will provide an overview of France's assessment of the geostrategic landscape - to include the state of French-U.S. relations in a complex and unpredictable electoral context on both sides of the Atlantic; conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East; the advent of new leadership in France, at NATO, and the European Union; and overarching trends towards growing Great Power Competition. The conversation will be held under Chatham House rules.
About the Ambassador
A graduate of the French National School of Public Administration (ENA) (Victor Hugo Year, 1989-91), Laurent Bili joined the French Foreign Ministry’s Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Directorate (1991-93).
He successively held the positions of Ambassador to Thailand (2007-09), Director of the Defense Minister’s Civilian and Military Office (2009-10), Ambassador to Turkey (2011-15) and then to Brazil (2015-17).
Laurent Bili was then Director-General for Global Affairs, Culture, Education and International Development at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and G7/G20 Sous-Sherpa (2017-2019).
Prior to his appointment in Washington, Laurent Bili was Ambassador to China since September 2019.
This event is closed to the media.
The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052
Tel (202) 994-6340 / Fax (202) 994-5436 / Email ieresgwu@gwu.edu
