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Mr Jean-Pierre Thébault, Consul-General of France in Hong Kong, graduated from the Political Institute in Paris. After graduation he joined the Financial and Economics Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988-1991). Over the years he has held various diplomatic positions including: Technical Counsellor for European Affairs at the Prime Minister Office (1991-1992), Diplomatic Counsellor to the Minister of Justice (1992-1993), Head of the European Community Monitor Mission in Bosnia then Albania (1993-1994), First Counsellor at the French Embassy in Zagreb (1994-1995), Counsellor at the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (1995-1997), Diplomatic Counsellor to the Minister for Regional Development and Environment (1997-1999), First Counsellor at the French Embassy in Berlin (1999-2000), Diplomatic Counsellor to the Minister for Administration and Public Management Reform (2000-2003), and Minister-Counsellor at the French Embassy in Tokyo. He became the Consul-General of France in Hong Kong in September 2005.

Consul-General Thébault was born in 1961 in Lourdes, France, and is married to Aurore Saglio.