The new French ambassador to Uzbekistan, Walid Fouque, assumed office on August 27, 2025, the French Embassy’s press service reported.
Walid Fouque is a career diplomat and a second-rank civil servant. After graduating in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris, he began his service at the Department for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010–2014).
He later served as a political advisor at the French Embassy in Beijing (2014–2017), then at France’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (2017–2019). Afterwards, he became Deputy Director for the Far East at the Department for Asia and Oceania of the central administration (2019–2020).
From 2020 to 2025, Fouque was part of the French presidential administration as an advisor to the head of state on Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
In a 2011 interview with Trajectoires, he spoke about his disability. According to him, the need to use a wheelchair due to neuropathy was not an obstacle to his career. At that time, the diplomat also noted that he had always sought to view physical difficulties as a “parameter” and an “advantage.”
In his address to “dear Uzbek friends,” delivered in Uzbek, Walid Fouque pledged to make every effort to foster cooperation and support the historic rapprochement between the two countries. In the coming months, the ambassador intends to visit all regions to strengthen “the bonds of friendship uniting France and Uzbekistan, and to build a shared future.”