Alexandre Stutzmann
As the Special Adviser for UN75 Strategy and Implementation, Alexandre Stutzmann coordinates the follow-up that the President of the General Assembly is giving to the UN75 Declaration and its recommendations, across the policy spectrum, with all relevant stakeholders and relying on both existing and new initiatives and partnerships.
Prior to his current appointment, Alexandre was the Team Leader for social, humanitarian and cultural issues in the Office of the President of the 74th session of the General Assembly. Before his UN assignment, Alexandre was the Director for Parliamentary Committees in the field of External Policies (foreign affairs, development, international trade, human rights, security and defence) in the European Parliament. His role was to coordinate the political and administrative support given to the work of several political bodies and develop synergies between external and domestic EU policy areas, while ensuring consistency with the work and action of other EU institutions or with third country counterparts.
A European Union official since 2001, he previously headed the Secretariat of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2014-2015) and served as the Diplomatic Adviser to three Presidents of the European Parliament (2007-2014).
Alexandre is a graduate in humanities, political science and law from the École Normale Supérieure as well as the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was also a postgraduate scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, where he focused on international relations, while teaching political science at New York University.
A French native, his languages include English, Spanish, German and Italian, while he has not given up on improving his command of Russian and Arabic in the future.
