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Regional Innovation Policy

Marie Dumoulin

Ambassador of France to Bulgaria

Marie Dumoulin
Regional Innovation Policy

Marie Dumoulin

Ambassador of France to Bulgaria
Talk TopicThe European Union's innovation and geoeconomic power in the Black Sea region

About the speaker

Marie Dumoulin has been Ambassador of France to Bulgaria since September 2025.

Previous positions: Wider Europe Programme Director, European Council on Foreign Relations (November 2021 – August 2025); Deputy Director for Russia and Eastern Europe, Directorate for Continental Europe (2018–2021); Analyst at the Centre for Strategy, Analysis and Policy Planning, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2016–2018); exchange diplomat seconded to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2015–2016); Political Counsellor at the French Embassy in Berlin (2013–2015); Second Counsellor at the French Embassy in Algiers (2009–2013); Desk Officer, Directorate for Continental Europe (2004–2007).

Education: PhD in Political Science, Paris School of Political Science; degree in Russian language and civilization, INALCO, Paris; postgraduate degree in Comparative Politics with a specialization in “Post-communist Europe”, Paris School of Political Science; Franco-German MSc in Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin; BSc in Political Science, Paris School of Political Science.

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