H.E. Céline Place, Ambassador of France in Ireland [fr]

Born on 26 November 1976, Céline Place is a career diplomat.

She was Deputy Director of the private office of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna (May 2022-January 2024). At the end of her post, she coordinated the international humanitarian aid conference for Sudan and neighbouring countries, which was held in Paris in April 2024.

She had previously held management positions in multilateral affairs and the United Nations, as Head of the Economic and Budgetary Affairs Department at the United Nations Directorate (2020-2022) and as Deputy Head of Department in charge of human development at the Sustainable Development Directorate (2018-2020).

She has been an adviser on the Arab world at the Ministry (2009-2011) and in embassies. At the French Embassy in Lebanon (2011-2015), she more specifically coordinated asylum issues and French humanitarian cooperation on behalf of Syrian and Palestinian refugees, in liaison with the United Nations and NGOs in Tunisia (2015-2018), she worked in particular on governance and human rights cooperation.

She has also worked as an adviser in field of European affairs and on strategic and security issues at the Ministry (2003-2006) and at France’s Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels (2006-2009). There she represented France on the PSC working group on civilian crisis management (CIVCOM), which she co-chaired during the French Presidency of the EU Council in 2008.

She is married and has two children.