| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
| Etienne de Poncins | |
| Office: | French Ambassador to Ukraine |
| Term Start: | August 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Isabelle Dumont |
| President: | Emmanuel Macron |
| Birth Date: | 6 March 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Étienne de Poncins (born 6 March 1964) is a French diplomat, serving since 2019 as the Ambassador of France to Ukraine.[1]
De Poncins was noted as one of the last-remaining senior diplomats in Ukraine (having re-located to Lviv) amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; engaged in distributing French aid to Ukraine. De Poncins told Politico that "you are here in the difficult moments and hours. I would have felt very bad if I had left."[2] De Poncins returned to Kyiv and re-opened the French embassy in the capital on 15 April.[3]
De Poncins graduated from Sciences Po and École nationale d'administration and also has a degree in history from the University of Paris.
He has served in various posting as French Ambassador; firstly to Bulgaria (2007–2010) and then to Kenya (2010–2013) and simultaneously Somalia.[4] [5]