H.E. Aurelién Lechevallier

H.E. Aurelién Lechevallier

• French Ambassador to the United States

Aurélien Lechevallier is France's Ambassador to the United States, a post he took up in 2026 after receiving U.S. approval in September. He most recently served as chief of staff to Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and before that as the Foreign Ministry's Director-General for Globalization. He was Ambassador to South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi from 2019 to 2022 and earlier served as deputy diplomatic adviser to President Emmanuel Macron. He served in Washington from 2007 to 2010, on secondment to the State Department and then as first secretary at the French Embassy. He also directed the Institut français in Beirut. He is a graduate of HEC Paris, Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration.