Pierre Brochand
{{Short description|French diplomat and spy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{ infobox officeholder
| name = Pierre Brochand
| office = Head of the DGSE
| term_start = 2002
| term_end = 2008
| president = Jacques Chirac
Nicolas Sarkozy
| predecessor = Jean-Claude Cousseran
| successor = Erard Corbin de Mangoux
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|07|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Cannes, France
| nationality = French
}}
Pierre Brochand (born 4 July 1941, in Cannes) is a former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE). He was previously a diplomat. He was a witness to Operation Frequent Wind and the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War.[https://archive.today/20120714043735/http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/org.wgbh.mla:2cd67c6e1007d9b3a9bfbb49c2fef6c666b73429 “Interview with Pierre Brochand.”] WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
Alumnus of the École nationale d'administration (ENA), he is also a graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC).
Career
- central administration, 1968–1971
- First Secretary in Saigon, 1971–1973
- Counsellor in Saigon, 1973–1975
- Counsellor in Bangkok, 1975–1979
- Consul General in San Francisco, 1979–1982
- Deputy Director (Asia and Oceania), 1982–1985
- Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York, 1985–1989
- French Ambassador to Hungary, 1989–1993
- French Ambassador in Israel, 1993–1995
- Director General cultural, scientific and technical, 1995–1998
- Diplomatic Adviser to the Government
- French Ambassador to Portugal, 1998–2002
- Director of the DGSE, 2002-2008{{webarchive |date=25 May 2011 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525052304/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081007/tfr-conseil-dgse-nomination-56633fe.html}}
Family
He is the brother of Bernard Brochand (1938–2025), a mayor of Cannes (2001–2014). Pierre Brochand is married with three children. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Order of Merit.
References
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Category:Directors of the Directorate-General for External Security
Category:Ambassadors of France to Israel
Category:Ambassadors of France to Hungary
Category:Ambassadors of France to Portugal
Category:Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite