Marie-France Pagnier

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Marie-France Pagnier-Dunavan (born c. 1945) is a French diplomat. She is the Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka, and the Maldives [1]

Life

She graduated from the Sciences Po, and Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. [1]

She was deputy consul general to Los Angeles. [2] She was a member of the Permanent Mission of France to the Organization of American States. [3] From 1989 to 1991, she was Deputy Director of Central and Eastern Africa. [4] From 1989 to 1991, she was Minister-Counsellor to Morocco. She was embassy adviser in Sweden,. From 1998 to 2000, she was Deputy Director for Asia-Oceania. [5] [6] [7] She was ambassador to Cuba. [8]

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