Luis Vassy
{{Short description|French diplomat}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Luis Vassy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|1|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
| office1 = Director of Sciences Po
| predecessor1 = Mathias Vicherat
Jean Bassères (interim)
| termstart1 = 20 September 2024
| image = Ambassadeur Vassy (cropped).jpg
| caption = Vassy in 2019
| alma_mater = ENS Cachan
Sciences Po
ENA
| office2 = Ambassador of France
to the Netherlands
Permanent representative of France to the OPCW
| termend2 = 27 October 2022
| termstart2 = 9 September 2019
| predecessor2 = Philippe Lalliot
| successor2 = François Alabrune
}}
Luis Vassy (born 10 January 1980) is a French high ranking civil servant, diplomat, and director of Sciences Po.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-21 |title=Sciences Po Paris : qui est Luis Vassy, le nouveau directeur de l'école ? |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sciences-po-paris-qui-est-luis-vassy-le-nouveau-directeur-de-l-ecole-21-09-2024-2570809_23.php#11 |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Le Point |language=fr}}
He was the cabinet director to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs between July 2022 and July 2024. Prior to that he served as Ambassador of France to the Netherlands and permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2019 until 2022. In September 2024, he was named the director of Sciences Po Paris.{{Cite news |date=2024-09-20 |title=Sciences Po : le diplomate Luis Vassy désigné directeur, après des mois de crise de gouvernance |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/sciences-po-le-diplomate-luis-vassy-designe-directeur-apres-des-mois-de-crise-de-gouvernance_6325854_3224.html |access-date=2024-09-23 |language=fr}}
Biography
= Early life and education =
Vassy was born on 10 January 1980 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, an eastern suburb of Paris in Île-de-France. The son of an Uruguayan agricultural engineer father and an Argentine legal expert mother, both political refugees, he grew up in low-rent housing in Fontenay-sous-Bois.{{Cite web |last=Delesalle-Stolper |first=Sonia |title=Luis Vassy, diplomate binational |url=https://www.liberation.fr/portraits/luis-vassy-diplomate-binational-20240730_N3KGU2UKZJBC7GGXZIBR3SCE34/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Libération |language=fr}}{{Cite book |last=Larnaudie |first=Mathieu |title=Les Jeunes Gens : Enquête sur la promotion Senghor |date=4 April 2018 |publisher=Grasset |isbn=978-2246815099 |pages=115–122}} He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.{{cite web|access-date=2022-12-09 |author=Elsa Trujillo |date=2022-12-09 |language=fr |title=Les appuis de Luis Vassy, tour de contrôle de Catherine Colonna au Quai d'Orsay |url=https://www.lalettrea.fr/action-publique_executif/2022/12/09/les-appuis-de-luis-vassy-tour-de-controle-de-catherine-colonna-au-quai-d-orsay,109872493-ar2 |website=La Lettre A}}. He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Sciences Po. He is an alum of the École nationale d'administration, where he was classmates with future-President of France, Emmanuel Macron and his predecessor at Sciences Po, Mathias Vicherat.{{Cite news |date=2024-09-20 |title=Sciences Po : le diplomate Luis Vassy désigné directeur, après des mois de crise de gouvernance |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/sciences-po-le-diplomate-luis-vassy-designe-directeur-apres-des-mois-de-crise-de-gouvernance_6325854_3224.html |access-date=2024-09-23 |language=fr}}
= Career =
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From July 2022 to July 2024, Vassy was the chief of staff of the ministers of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and Stéphane Séjourné.[https://acteurspublics.fr/nomination/luis-vassy-en-passe-detre-nomme-directeur-de-cabinet-de-catherine-colonna Luis Vassy en passe d’être nommé directeur de cabinet de Catherine Colonna], Acteurs publics, 20 July 2022.