H.E. Adrien Abecassis

Biography

Adrien Abecassis is a French foreign service officer (secrétaire des affaires étrangères) who has been named France’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs and Artificial Intelligence, succeeding Clara Chappaz. Born in 1981, he studied public law at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and human rights and humanitarian law at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the IRA of Metz.

He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès from 2010 to 2012. From 2012 to 2017 he served in the office of President François Hollande, as project officer for European affairs and speeches, adviser for bilateral European affairs and adviser for studies. He was a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center in 2020 and 2021 and, from 2020, director of political initiatives at the Paris Peace Forum. In 2023 he was deputy special envoy for the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.