| Lionel Beffre | |
| Office: | Prefect of Isère |
| Term Start: | 6 May 2016[1] |
| Predecessor: | Jean-Paul Bonnetain |
| Office2: | High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia |
| Term Start2: | 22 August 2013[2] |
| Term End2: | 6 May 2016 |
| Predecessor2: | Jean-Pierre Laflaquière |
| Successor2: | René Bidal |
| Office3: | Prefect of Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
| Term Start3: | 11 January 2012[3] |
| Term End3: | 22 August 2013 |
| Predecessor3: | François-Xavier Ceccaldi |
| Successor3: | Pierre-André Durand |
| Office4: | Prefect of Eure-et-Loir |
| Term Start4: | 21 January 2010[4] |
| Term End4: | 11 January 2012 |
| Predecessor4: | Jean-Jacques Brot |
| Successor4: | Didier Martin |
| Office5: | Prefect of Lot-et-Garonne |
| Term Start5: | 5 Juillet 2007[5] |
| Term End5: | 21 January 2010 |
| Predecessor5: | Rémi Thuau |
| Successor5: | Bernard Schmeltz |
| Birth Date: | 1964 1, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Decazeville, France |
| Nationality: |  French |
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Lionel Beffre (born 20 January 1964) is a French senior civil servant. He was the High Commissioner in French Polynesia from 2013 to 2016, when he was appointed to his current role. He was preceded as High Commissioner by Jean-Pierre Laflaquière and succeeded by René Bidal.[6] He is the former prefect of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.[7]
| Ribbon bar | Honour[8] | |
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| Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour | ||
| Officer of the National Order of Merit |
| Ribbon bar | Honour[9] | |
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| Knight of the Order of Academic Palms | ||
| Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit |