Pierre Brochand Explained

Pierre Brochand
Office:	Head of the DGSE
Term Start:	2002
Term End:	2008
President:	Jacques Chirac Nicolas Sarkozy
Predecessor:	Jean-Claude Cousseran
Successor:	Erard Corbin de Mangoux
Birth Date:	4 July 1941
Birth Place:	Cannes, France
Nationality:	French
Alma Mater:	HEC Paris, ÉNA

Pierre Brochand (born 4 July 1941, in Cannes) is a former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE). He was previously a diplomat. He was a witness to Operation Frequent Wind and the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War.^[1]

Alumnus of the École nationale d'administration (ENA), he is also a graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC).

Career

• central administration, 1968–1971
• First Secretary in Saigon, 1971–1973
• Counsellor in Saigon, 1973–1975
• Counsellor in Bangkok, 1975–1979
• Consul General in San Francisco, 1979–1982
• Deputy Director (Asia and Oceania), 1982–1985
• Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York, 1985–1989
• French Ambassador to Hungary, 1989–1993
• French Ambassador in Israel, 1993–1995
• Director General cultural, scientific and technical, 1995–1998
• Diplomatic Adviser to the Government
• French Ambassador to Portugal, 1998–2002
• Director of the DGSE, 2002-2008

Family

He is the brother of Bernard Brochand, currently UMP deputy-mayor of Cannes. Pierre Brochand is married with three children. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Order of Merit.

References

1. https://archive.today/20120714043735/http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/org.wgbh.mla:2cd67c6e1007d9b3a9bfbb49c2fef6c666b73429 “Interview with Pierre Brochand.”