France Appoints First Female Ambassador to Morocco, Hélène Le Gal

Hélène Le Gal succeeds Jean-François Girault (2015-2019) at the French Embassy in Morocco. The new Ambassador will take up her duties at the beginning of September 2019.

On her Twitter account, she had announced the color. "Awaiting my next departure for Morocco, I’m back in the neighborhood where I live in Paris," she had written. On August 20, she bid farewell to the French Embassy in Israel, where she held the position of Ambassador between 2016 and 2019, reports HuffPost.

Hélène Le Gal, 52, is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). She has held several positions in France as well as abroad. Before her latest appointment, she was until then Ambassador of France in Israel.

Hélène Le Gal is the first diplomat appointed to head the French Embassy in Morocco. Her predecessor will now hold the position of Diplomatic Advisor to the Macron Government, the same source specifies.