| Bernard Bajolet | |
| Office: | Director of the Directorate-General for External Security |
| Term Start: | 10 April 2013 |
| Term End: | 20 May 2017 |
| President: | François Hollande |
| Birth Date: | 21 May 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Alma Mater: | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
| Profession: | Diplomat |
Bernard Bajolet (born 21 May 1949)[1] is a French diplomat and civil servant. On 10 April 2013 he was appointed as head of the French secret service, the Directorate-General for External Security (Direction générale des services extérieurs). He was the French Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2013.
Bajolet was born in 1949 at Dombasle-sur-Meurthe and went to Lycée Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France.[1] He then studied at Paris' Sciences Po, and graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 1975. That same year he joined the diplomatic service.[1]
On 18 October 2022, Bernard Bajolet is indicted for "complicity in attempted extortion" and "arbitrary attack on individual freedom by a person holding public authority", against Alain Dumenil, a Franco-Swiss businessman who accuses the intelligence service of having used coercion to demand money from him in 2016.https://www.lemediatv.fr/emissions/2023/magot-de-la-dgse-kadhafi-francafrique-la-face-cachee-de-lespionnage-francais-iLQqbfujQMyK_b8WFuFFIg.