Beautiful and slender, she’s got the moves. But make no mistake — she is as graceful on the parquet as she is astute and purposeful on the diplomatic red carpet.
Former adviser to French President Emanuel Macron, diplomat, wife, mother of three and ballet and modern dancer Marie Fontanel is France’s new ambassador to the Philippines.When asked to resume her career overseas after 20 years in France, she chose the Philippines.
She met her husband Alain when they were both assigned in Hanoi over 20 years ago, and eventually married there. They lived in France following their marriage. “And then at some point when I had the chance to join the foreign office, I was mature enough probably to see that, well, now it’s time for me also to contribute and to make diplomacy benefit also from all my experiences. I think I can add something different compared to maybe someone who had been there all the time. It’s another view on situations,” she says.
“It’s difficult, but as a mom of three, I think I have the kind of obligation to and responsibility to balance a professional life and personal life. My children have been used to living in a home where their dad was a politician. The limit and the border between political, personal and professional life was not always easy. And now with me as an ambassador, it’s a bit the same — the difference between job and life is not easy.
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