Geographer, diplomat and writer, Michel Foucher served as the French Ambassador to Latvia (2002-2006), special advisor to the French Foreign Minister (1997-2002), head of the Policy Planning Staff (1999-2002) and special envoy to the Balkans and the Caucasus (1999). He was then Ambassador at Large for European Affairs (2007).
He has been Director of Studies and Research and member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Higher National Defence Studies (Paris, Prime Minister’s Office) from 2010 to 2013. Member of the scientific board of the Centre for Higher European Studies (CHEE, at INSP, Paris), and former President of the Association of Internationalists.
He was an expert in the African Union’s borders program under the auspices of the Commission of the African Union’s Peace and Conflict Prevention division (Addis Ababa, from 2007 to 2013). And professor at the College of Europe (Natolin campus, from 1994 to 2002).
He is presently Director of the Program of Peace-Builiding, Security and National Safety of the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia).