French women diplomats

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (née Lallouette, born 1 January 1956) is a French politician, businessperson and lawyer serving as President of the European Central Bank since 1st November 2019. Between July 2011 and September 2019, she served as Chair and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (born 10 September 1946), known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007), the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011); she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010), and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.

Sylvie-Agnès Bermann (born 19 October 1953) is a French career diplomat and the current Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom.

Laurence Tubiana (born 1951) is a French economist, academic and diplomat. She served as France's Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris, and is recognised as a key architect of the resulting Paris Agreement.

Catherine Briat is a French diplomat and writer. After working for large media groups such as RTL and Radio France, she joined the diplomatic service. She has served in Ottawa and in Berlin, where she was the director of the Institut français. Her novel Le divan rouge was published by Editions Heloise d'Ormesson.

Brigitte Girardin (born 12 January 1953 in Verdun, Meuse, France) is a French diplomat and politician. She was the minister of Overseas France under Jacques Chirac from 7 May 2002 to 2 June 2005.

Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry. After serving there for 15 years, she married the French foreign minister Georges Bidault.

Claude-France Arnould (born 14 August 1953) is a French diplomat. She was Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency from 17 January 2011 until 31 January 2015.

Catherine Colonna (born 16 April 1956) is a French diplomat and political figure. Since september 2019, she is the Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom, operating from the Embassy of France, London.

Véronique North-Minca (born December 4, 1953, Mulhouse) is a diplomat from France. She served as the first Secretary of the French Embassy, Chişinău (2006-2010).