World Forum for Democracy 2021: speakers
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Alexandre STUTZMANN
Special Advisor, Office of UNGA President
Alexandre Stutzmann is the Special Adviser to the President of the General Assembly, in charge of the strategy and implementation of UN75/ Our Common Agenda, Outreach and Partnerships, and the President’s Youth Fellowship Programme. Alexandre joined the Office of the President of the General Assembly for the 73rd session, where he was team leader for social, humanitarian and cultural issues as well as human rights. He also coordinated the task force for the commemorations of the 75th UN anniversary. He then was a Special Adviser to the PGA during the 75th session, in charge if UN75 strategy and implementation. Prior to his UN appointments, Alexandre was the Director for parliamentary committees in the field of External Policies (foreign affairs, development, international trade, human rights, security and defense) in the European Parliament. His role was to coordinate the political and administrative support given to the work of several political bodies and develop synergies between external and domestic EU policy areas, while ensuring consistency with the work and action of other EU institutions or with third country counterparts. A European Union official since 2001, he previously headed the Secretariat of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2014-2015) and served as the Diplomatic Adviser to three Presidents of the European Parliament (2007-2014). Alexandre is a graduate in humanities, political science and law from the Ecole Normale Supérieure as well as the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was also a postgraduate scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, where he focused on international relations, while teaching political science at New York University. Alexandre taught regularly since then in various European and American universities. A French native, his languages include English, German, Italian and Spanish, while he has not given up on improving his Russian and Arabic in the future.