Étienne de Poncins
Etienne de Poncins | |
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de Poncins with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy | |
| French Ambassador to Poland | |
| Assumed office August 2023 | |
| President | Emmanuel Macron |
| Preceded by | Frédéric Billet |
| French Ambassador to Ukraine | |
| In office September 2019 – August 2023 | |
| President | Emmanuel Macron |
| Preceded by | Isabelle Dumont |
| Succeeded by | Gaël Veyssière |
| French Ambassador to Kenya and Somalia | |
| In office 2010–2013 | |
| President | Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande |
| Preceded by | Élisabeth Barbier |
| Succeeded by | Rémi Maréchaux |
| French Ambassador to Bulgaria | |
| In office 2007–2010 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Preceded by | Yves Saint-Geours |
| Succeeded by | Philippe Autié |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 March 1964 |
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Étienne de Poncins (born 6 March 1964) is a French diplomat, serving since August 2023 as the Ambassador of France to Poland.
De Poncins was noted as one of the last-remaining senior diplomats in Ukraine (having re-located to Lviv) amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; engaged in distributing French aid to Ukraine. De Poncins told Politico that "you are here in the difficult moments and hours. I would have felt very bad if I had left." De Poncins returned to Kyiv and re-opened the French embassy in the capital on 15 April.