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Date: November 3, 1997
French Consul General to Speak at the Woodrow Wilson School on Trans-Atlantic Relations
Princeton, N.J. -- Patrick Gautrat, consul general of France, will give a lecture entitled "Trans-Atlantic Relations --The View from France" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, November 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Appointed consul general in January 1996, Gautrat is a career diplomat. From 1971 to 1974, he served in the French embassies in Warsaw and, from 1977 to 1981, in Washington where he was the press counselor. In 1976 he was a technical adviser to the minister of foreign trade in Paris, and from 1976 to 1977, was on special assignment with the staff of the prime minister.
Gautrat left the foreign service in 1981 to become director of the shipowners' association in Paris, a position he held until 1987. He, however, returned to central administration as the chief of service of general affairs at the Direction Economique et Financière (1987-89). Subsequently, he was appointed the consul general of Barcelona (1989-92). Returning to Paris in 1992, he was the director for strategic planning at the General Division for External Security and concurrently held a number of posts at the foreign ministry in Paris, serving with the Press and Information Service and in the economic affairs division. Gautrat then served as director of sports at the Ministry for Youth and Sports in Paris (1993-95).
Gautrat's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for European Studies, and the Center of International Studies.
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