The Ambassador
Ambassador Céline Giusti is a Administratrice de l’Etat of the second grade.
She was appointed Permanent Observer of France to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C. by French President Emmanuel Macron on June 26, 2024.
She took office on August 20, 2024, and presented her credentials to the Organization’s Secretary General, Luis Almagro, on August 23.
As a graduate of the Regional Institute of Administration (Lyon) in 2004, Céline Giusti was appointed to the Foreign Secretary corps on September 1, 2004. Assigned to the central government, she first worked as a desk officer in the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in Paris, from 2004 to 2008.
In 2008, she took up her first position abroad, in Madrid, as political advisor in the Chancellery of the French Embassy in Spain. After 3 years in Madrid, she was appointed to Brasilia, where she held the same position in the Chancellery of the French Embassy in Brazil until 2014.
On her return to Paris in 2014, she joined the Human Resources Department. In 2016, she was appointed project manager at the Directorate-General for the Administration for 4 years.
Between 2020 and 2024, Céline Giusti was Deputy Chief of Mission at the French Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fluent in all the official languages of the OAS (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese), Ambassador Céline Giusti is committed to using her skills to strengthen ties between France and the OAS, and to promote the Organization’s shared values and pillars: democracy, human rights, security and development.