European Breakfast with Pierre Vimont. Four Years in the EEAS: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the European Foreign Policy

CIDOB with the support of Abertis and the Europe for Citizens programme is pleased to invite you to a European Breakfast-Jaime Arias on June 17, with the participation of Pierre Vimont as a special guest, there months after having left his post as a secretary executive of the European External Action Service EEAS.

Pierre Vimont is a senior associate at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy. 

Prior to joining Carnegie, Vimont was the first executive secretary-general of the European External Action Service (EEAS), from December 2010 to March 2015. During his thirty-eight-year diplomatic career with the French Foreign Service, he served as ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2010, ambassador to the European Union from 1999 to 2002, and chief of staff to three former French foreign ministers. He holds the title, Ambassador of France, a dignity bestowed for life to only a few French career diplomats. 

He holds a degree in law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and the National School of Administration (ENA) is a knight of the French National Order of Merit.