Mr. Jean-Marc Châtaigner
Deputy Executive Director of the French Research Institute for Development (IRD)
Jean-Marc Châtaigner is a Foreign Affairs counsellor of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, with expert knowledge of international development, crisis recovery, and the organisation of the multilateral system. As part of the development assistance committee at the OECD, he co-chaired the “Fragile states” group and the Heiligendamm process development group, which brought together members of the G8 and the G5. He holds a degree in politics from the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) in Bordeaux, France.