Catherine Colonna

Catherine Colonna (born 16 April 1956) is a French politician. Colonna was the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2024. She was the Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. Before this, she was the Ambassador of France to Italy between 2014 and 2017.

 Biography 

Colonna learnt about law as a child.

In 1983, she chose to become a diplomat instead of doing a job associated with law. She decided to work at the French embassy in the USA. Colonna started working in the political unit. She would move to the press and information unit.
After she went back to Paris, she would work in the legal part of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She did this from 1986 to 1988.

In 1993, Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé and Cabinet Director Dominique de Villepin named Catherine Colonna deputy spokesperson. This meant she helped represent the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 1995, President Jacques Chirac made her the speaker for the Élysée Palace. Colonna would stop her work in diplomacy for a bit after this.

After the European Constitution referendum, she started working on diplomacy again. Colonna was made Minister Delegate for European Affairs on 2 June 2005. She was the Minister for two years, until 15 May 2007.

On 26 March 2008, Catherine Colonna was made the French ambassador to UNESCO.

She also is in-charge the board of leaders of the École du Louvre. She became in-charge in May 2010.Ecole du Louvre, Board of governors

She was made the French ambassador to Italy on 14 August 2014.https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do;jsessionid=?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000029374929&dateTexte=&oldAction=dernierJO&categorieLien=id She would work as the ambassador until 2017. In 2019, she became the French ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Awards
National awards
 : Officer of the Legion of Honour
 : Officer of the National Order of Merit
 : Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Foreign awards
 : Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1997)
 : Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy (2 June 2018)

 References 

Category:Ambassadors of France
Category:Living people
Category:1956 births
Category:Alumni of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Category:People from Tours
Category:Politicians from Centre-Val de Loire