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Thierry Lataste

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Thierry Lataste
High Commissioner of New Caledonia
In office
20 June 2016 – 10 July 2019
PresidentFrançois Hollande
Emmanuel Macron
Preceded byLaurent Cabrera
Succeeded byLaurent Prévost
In office
19 July 1999 – 29 July 2002
PresidentJacques Chirac
Preceded byDominique Bur
Succeeded byAlain Triolle
In office
29 July 1994 – 12 August 1994
PresidentFrançois Mitterrand
Preceded byAlain Christnacht
Succeeded byDidier Cultiaux
Representative of Co-Prince of Andorra
In office
5 January 2015 – 15 June 2016
Personal details
Born
Thierry Lataste

(1954-01-31) 31 January 1954 (age 70)
Talence, Gironde Department

Thierry Lataste (born 31 January 1954 in Talence, Gironde Department)[1] is a senior French civil servant, who served as High Commissioner of New Caledonia from July to August 1994, 1999 to 2002, and again from 2016 to 2019.

From 5 January 2015 to 15 June 2016 he was the personal representative of the Co-Prince of Andorra.[2]

Biography

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Youth and training

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Thierry Lataste is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1978,[3] a former student of the École normale supérieure[4] and of the École nationale d'administration (ENA or transl. National School of Administration) in 1982.[5]

Career

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When he left the ENA in June 1982, Lataste was named civil administrator 2nd class of the Ministry of Interior and Decentralization.[5] In September, he became sub-prefect, director of the cabinet of the Commissioner of the Republic of Vaucluse.[6] In October 1983, he was appointed sub-prefect outside the framework and became director of Pierre Mauroy's cabinet in Lille. In 1985, he became secretary general of the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres.[1] He was reinstated as a civil administrator and became secretary general of New Caledonia. He stayed there for three years, and in October 1994 became sub-prefect of Senlis. He was chief of staff to Secretary of State for Overseas Jean-Jack Queyranne from 1997 to 2000. At the end of this year, he becomes prefect, government delegate, High Commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia.[7] In 2002, he became the prefect of Savoie, then two years later, prefect of Pyrénées-Orientales. He later became prefect of Vendée, and prefect of Saône-et-Loire.[8][9]

In July 2012, he became the prefect of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, prefect of Hérault.[10]

On 19 December 2012 he was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls.[11]

On 3 January 2015 he was appointed chief of staff of the president of the Republic François Hollande and personal representative of the president of the Republic as Co-Prince in Andorra, replacing Sylvie Hubac as of 5 January 2015.[9] He was assisted by Constance Rivière.[12]

He performed this function until 25 May 2016, the date on which he was appointed High Commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia[13] with the charge of organizing the 2018 referendum on the independence of New Caledonia.[14][15] On 15 June 2016 he was replaced by Jean-Pierre Hugues, a retired prefect.[16]

New Caledonia

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As chief of staff to Secretary of State for Overseas Jean-Jack Queyranne from 1997 to 2000, Thierry Lataste negotiated with New Caledonians following the Matignon agreements of 1988, he was one of the main negotiators of the Nouméa Accord that he signed on 5 May 1998 as representative of the Secretary of State for Overseas.[17] From July 1999 until 2002, he was appointed the high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia.[18]

Significant actions

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As the high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, he was especially confronted with the violent clashes which from December 2001 opposed certain Kanak inhabitants of the Saint-Louis tribe to members of the Wallisian and Futunian community.[19]

Distinctions

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Bio Express. Thierry Lataste, marié, père de 4 enfants, est né le 31 janvier 1954 à Talence en Gironde" [Bio Express. Thierry Lataste, married, father of 4 children, was born on 31 January 1954 in Talence in Gironde]. www.lejsl.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  2. ^ "Andorra". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  3. ^ "Sciences Po Alumni". sciencespo-alumni.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  4. ^ "L'annuaire | a-Ulm". www.archicubes.ens.fr. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  5. ^ a b "M. Thierry LATASTE - Préfet hors classe - Biographie mise à jour le 19 novembre 2020 - LesBiographies.com" [Mr. Thierry Lataste - Biography updated on November 19, 2020 - LesBiographies.com]. www.lesbiographies.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  6. ^ "Thierry Lataste". Les Echos (in French). 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  7. ^ "Le congrès de la Nouvelle-Calédonie" [The Congress of New Caledonia]. Congrès (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  8. ^ "Thierry Lataste nommé directeur de cabinet du Président de la République" [Thierry Lataste appointed Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic]. Nouvelle-Calédonie la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  9. ^ a b "Elysée : Sylvie Hubac s'en va, Thierry Lataste arrive". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  10. ^ "Préfets de la région Languedoc-Roussillon, Préfets de l'Hérault depuis 1800" [Prefects of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Prefects of Hérault since 1800]. www.herault.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  11. ^ "Thierry Lataste - Who's Who". www.whoswho.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  12. ^ "Thierry Lataste nommé directeur de cabinet, en janvier" [Thierry Lataste appointed chief of staff, in January]. Ouest France (in French). December 19, 2014.
  13. ^ "New French High Commissioner installed in New Caledonia". RNZ. 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  14. ^ "Political structure". country.eiu.com. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  15. ^ "Nouvelle-Calédonie : "Ici, la balance des forces est la même depuis trente ans"". LEFIGARO (in French). 10 September 2018. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  16. ^ "Jean-Pierre Hugues à la tête du cabinet de Hollande". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  17. ^ Cazaumayou, Jérôme; de Dekker, Thomas (1999). GABRIEL PAÏTA, TÉMOIGNAGE KANAK D'Opao au pays de la Nouvelle-Calédonie [GABRIEL PAÏTA, TESTIMONY KANAK From Opao to the land of New Caledonia] (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 217. ISBN 9782296394544.
  18. ^ "Le directeur de cabinet de François Hollande nommé Haut-commissaire de la République en Nouvelle-Calédonie". Outre-mer la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  19. ^ "NEW APPEAL FOR CALM IN NEW CALEDONIA | Pacific Islands Report". www.pireport.org. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  20. ^ "Décret du 2 mai 2017 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  21. ^ "Décret du 30 janvier 2008 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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