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The French presidency announced the selection of Christophe Lecourtier, the current French ambassador to Morocco, to take over the position of Director-General of the French Development Agency.
According to French media, Lecourtier will succeed Rémy Rioux, who has held this position since 2016, and is due to leave his duties on May 3rd. Christophe Lecourtier, 63 years old, is a graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), and headed the "Business France" agency from 2017 to 2022, and also worked in the offices of Nicolas Sarkozy and Christine Lagarde in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, before being appointed as Ambassador of France to Australia (2014-2017), then to Serbia in 2017, and then as Ambassador to Morocco in December 2022.
