“France is proud to support TESS to encourage an inclusive and ambitious green agenda in the WTO. In line with our national objectives to foster sustainable development policies and the EU efforts towards a more sustainable trade policy, France looks forward to further collaboration with TESS.”

Etienne OUDOT de DAINVILLE was appointed as Permanent Representative of France to the World Trade Organization on September 2021.

He previously worked as Minister Counsellor, head of the economic and finance department of the French Embassy in Berlin, starting in September 2017. He worked on the improvement of the bilateral economic German-French relationships, before and throughout the Covid crisis. He contributed inter alia to the 2019 Aachen Treaty on French-German cooperation and integration, several French-German and European industrial policy initiatives (battery, hydrogen, artificial intelligence) and post-Covid recovery plan in the context of the European Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. He had regular contacts with the French business community in Germany, including support to the French Tech communities in Berlin and Munich, and German investors to France.

Etienne OUDOT de DAINVILLE was head of the Financial department of the French Permanent Representation to the European Union from 2014 to 2017. With his team, he worked on all ECOFIN Council related issues (Economic and Monetary Union, tax policy, financial markets regulations), covering as well company law, competition and state aid, EU budgets. He was involved inter alia in the Invesment Plan for Europe (“Juncker Plan”), the 2015 Greek debt crisis, the implementation of the Capital markets union and Banking union initiatives and legislative efforts to tackle tax evasion and money laundering.

From September 2012 to November 2014, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Investment within the French Treasury, within the Ministry of Finance and Economy, managing a team of 31 persons in charge of trade policy issues (bilateral and plurilateral trade deals, WTO negotiations, market access, intellectual property issues in relation to trade), international and bilateral investment rules, economic sanctions, financial crime (moneylaundering and terrorism financing). He was the French trade minister’s representative at the WTO Bali Ministerial and helped launching EU FTA negotiations with Japan, ASEAN countries, US (TTIP) or concluding others (CETA).

He was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (2009-2012). In this position, he was actively involved in European and international efforts to better regulate securities markets and accounting following the 2008 financial crisis (G20, Financial Stability Board, IFRS Foundation) and in the way those new rules were being translated into French law.

From May 2007 to July 2009, Etienne OUDOT de DAINVILLE was technical adviser for international economic affairs to the French Prime Minister M. François Fillon. In his position, he was in charge of coordinating the French government works on trade issues, public development assistance, G8 affairs, international climate negotiations.

He previously worked as deputy head of staff of the French Trade Minister Mrs. Christine Lagarde (2006-early 2007) and head of unit for “agricultural trade negotiations, trade and development issues” (in 2005). Between 2002 and 2005, he served as deputy economic counsellor at the French Embassy to the United Sates in Washington DC. He joined the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of Foreign Trade, in 1998, where he successively worked as an expert on French-German economic relations, EU-enlargment issues, international trade finance negotiations (OECD, WTO, EU, G8).

He graduated from the French national school of administration (ENA) in 1998 and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.