Our team

French Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco since July 2023. A French diplomat, international negotiator and cultural affairs administrator, he has held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Berlin and Brussels) and as advisor to the Minister of Culture and Communication. From January 2010 to January 2023 he was Director General of the Chambord National Estate, and from May 2012 to January 2013 he was Commissioner for the Rambouillet National Estate.

Specialised and honorary professor of classical studies in preparatory courses for the grandes écoles (elite institutes of Higher Education) and at the Lycée Albert Ier of Monaco. Cultural adviser of Femmes Leaders Mondiales Monaco, member of the editorial board of Annales Monégasques and member of the board of directors of the Centre Méditerranéen d'Études Françaises in Cap d'Ail. He is an Officer of the Order of Academic Palms, an Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit and a Knight of the Order of Saint Charles.

Joint managing director of the Centre Méditerranéen d'Études Françaises of Cap d'Ail, Chairman of the Groupement FLE (an association of 45 French as a Foreign Language schools in France), member of the steering committee for the French as a Foreign Language Quality label operated by France Éducation International, keen photographer.

President of the Consular Council. Private company General Manager.

Stephane Lamotte is a specialised teacher and Ph.D. in History and responsible of cultural and remembrance activities at Monaco's Department of Education. He teaches History-Geography and Drama at the Lycée Albert Ier. He has been secretary of the Albert I Commemoration Committee since 2022. He is also a research associate at the CMMC at the Université Nice Côte d'Azur, where he was a lecturer, and a member of the Editorial Board of Annales monégasques. He has been decorated as a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms and a Knight of the Order of Grimaldi.

Born and raised in Monaco, Daniel Jessula holds a doctorate in business management from Paris Dauphine University. He spent his professional career as Company Secretary and Director of the main French and foreign subsidiaries of a major financial institutions. He participated in the creation and development of several start-ups in the fields of financial management, energy and insurance. He now devotes his time to voluntary activities in the literary and intellectual fields, while offering his services for the financial management of associations.

Born in 1975, Thomas Fouilleron, Ph.D. in History, is the Director of the Archives and Library of the Prince's Palace of Monaco since 2012. An associate researcher at the Centre for the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (UPR 1193), he was formerly a teacher at the Lycée Albert Ier of Monaco and a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nice. His research focuses on the relationship between the nobility and the monarchy, political rituals and cultural practices in Monaco, France and Mediterranean Europe from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. He is the author of some thirty studies, published in conference proceedings, collective volumes, scientific journals and exhibition catalogues (including Princes and Princesses of Monaco. A European dynasty. XIIIe-XXIe siècle, at the Forbidden City in Beijing) and two books: his thesis, published in 2012 by Honoré Champion, entitled « Des princes en Europe ». « The Grimaldis of Monaco », « Lights in the springtime of peoples », and a textbook, « Monaco’s History », published in 2010 and again in 2016.

General Manager of the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco.

Honorary Headteacher of Rainier III School. Deputy Mayor of Monaco

President of the Alliance française de Monaco from 2002 to 2019 and playwrighter. His plays have been performed or read in various cities in France and abroad. He is a member of the Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) and several Monegasque cultural bodies. Alain Pastor is an Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles, an Officer of Cultural Merit, a Knight of the Order of Grimaldi, and in France, a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms.

Art historian, she has many diplomas and worked in several areas of business, including tourism, health, marketing and communications. Fluent in several languages. Author of publications, treasurer of the PEN Club de Monaco and member of the Oscar Wilde Society.