Adolphe Colrat
{{short description|French senior civil servant|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Adolphe Colrat
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| office = Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes
| term_end = 3 November 2016
| predecessor = Christophe Mirmand
| successor = Georges-François Leclerc
|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}
| term_end2 = 20 June 2013
| predecessor2 = Jean-Pierre Laflaquière
| successor2 = Danièle Polvé-Montmasson
| office3 = Prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle
|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}
| term_end3 = 22 July 2011
| predecessor3 = Dominique Bellion
| successor3 = Raphaël Bartolt
| office4 = High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}
| term_end4 = 23 December 2010
| predecessor4 = Anne Boquet
| successor4 = Richard Didier
| office5 = Prefect of Ardennes
| term_end5 = 28 August 2006
| predecessor5 = Bernard Lemaire
| successor5 = Catherine Delmas-Comolli
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|04|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Lyon, Rhône, France
| nationality = {{flagicon|France|1794}} French
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Adolphe Colrat (born 15 April 1955 in Lyon, France) is a French senior civil servant who served as the French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia from 2008 to 2011. He succeeded Anne Boquet in the post.
Early life
Colrat grew up in Lyon.{{cite web |url=https://www.lasemaine.fr/adolphe-colrat-les-lettres-de-l-etat/ |title=Adolphe Colrat, les Lettres de l'Etat |publisher=Le Semaine |author=Pierre Taribo |date=30 January 2011 |language=French |accessdate=14 January 2021}} He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), agrégé de lettres classiques, graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and of the National School of Public Administration (France) (ENA).
Career
Colrat held the post of chief of staff for the French police commissioner in Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, from 1983 until 1985. He served as the prefecture secretary general in Réunion beginning in 1992.
Colrat served as the head of civil protection at the Prefecture of the French capital, Paris from April 2001 until February 2004.{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2008/07/01/official-urges-stability-french-polynesia |title=OFFICIAL URGES STABILITY IN FRENCH POLYNESIA |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=1 July 2008 |accessdate=14 January 2021}} He served as the Prefect of the Ardennes department from 2004 until 2006.
Colrat later became temporary director of political, administrative and financial affairs at the French Ministry for Overseas Territories for two years from August 2006 until 2008.
High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
Colrat was appointed High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia by the Sarkozy government in June 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2008/06/16/new-high-commissioner-tahiti-appointed |title=NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER IN TAHITI APPOINTED |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=16 June 2008 |accessdate=14 January 2021}} His predecessor, Anne Boquet, departed French Polynesia on 29 June 2008, after serving three years as the first female High Commissioner.{{cite news|title=New French High Commissioner Takes Tahiti Post |url=http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2008/July/07-08-12.htm |work=Tahitipresse |publisher=East-West Center |date=2008-07-07 |accessdate=2009-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126213618/http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2008/July/07-08-12.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2016 }}
He arrived in French Polynesia with his wife on Saturday night of 5 July 2008 to assume his position as High Commissioner. Colrat was greeted at the Faa'a International Airport in Papeete by French Polynesian President Gaston Tong Sang, members of the Assembly of French Polynesia and other local Tahitian-based politicians. He was sworn in as High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia on Monday 7 July 2008.
Honours and decorations
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Category:French Polynesian politicians
Category:High commissioners of the Republic in French Polynesia
Category:Civil servants from Lyon
Category:École Normale Supérieure alumni
Category:École nationale d'administration alumni
Category:Prefects of Alpes-Maritimes
Category:Prefects of Meurthe-et-Moselle