Francois Lafond, a think tank veteran and former government adviser, has been named the Paris office director of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, a public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe. Most recently, Lafond was a special adviser of the Italian Minister for Regional Affairs and Local Autonomies, and associate professor at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences-Po Paris. Previously, he was special adviser of the Italian undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, deputy director of Policy Network in London, researcher and then deputy secretary general of the think tank Notre Europe in Paris.

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