Won the award of Paris Dauphine University Alumna of the Year
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Audrey Azoulay is a French civil servant and politician who has served as the 10th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 2017 to 2025, becoming the second female leader of the organization. She previously served as France's Minister of Culture under prime ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve from 2016 to 2017. In 2024 she won…
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Won the award of Paris Dauphine University Alumna of the Year
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Awarded Order of Valour (2022).
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Azoulay was elected to a second four-year term
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PBS: Audrey Azoulay
Le Monde outlined her achievements: in 2018, she succeeded in "demining crucial issues that for years had crystallized conflicts within UNESCO": she succeeded in having a text on the preservation of the walls of the Old
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Digital Journal: Audrey Azoulay, France’s ‘passionate’ arts defender to UNESCO chief
Azoulay was one of the nine candidates seeking to succeed Irina Bokova as Director-General of UNESCO
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Career landmark: Director-General of UNESCO (2017–2025).
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– the largest amount of government money promised for the arts in the country's history
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Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (2016–2017).
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Career landmark: UNESCO (2016–2017).
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Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (2016–2016).
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Azoulay joined the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC), successively holding the positions of Deputy Director for Multimedia Affairs, Chief Financial and Legal Officer and Deputy Director-General
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Appeared in the distribution of the film "Le Grand Rôle" by the director Steve Suissa, where she played the director's assistant
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Azoulay was in charge of the conference on media strategy, audiovisual and cinema financing at Sciences Po
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(promotion Averroès, alongside Fleur Pellerin, Alexis Kohler and Nicolas Kazadi among others)
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Azoulay was appointed civil administrator, assigned to the general secretariat of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's government
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Studied at École nationale d'administration (1998–2000).
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Studied at Paris Dauphine University (1994).
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And against the Juppé plan in 1995, and against the candidature of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the 2002 French presidential election
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Born 1972-08-04.
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