Sibylle Eschapasse
Sibylle Eschapasse is a French-born International Civil Servant at the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and an author. She is the current Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Staff Union.[1]
Education
[edit]Eschapasse studied History and Geography at Sorbonne University. She completed her Master of Geography on the topic of the relationship between man and the coral reef in Wallis and Futuna after spending 5 months in the French island of Wallis in the South Pacific to complete the cartography of the coast and study the consequences of anthropization on the coral reef.[2] She then moved to Tahiti for 4 months to complete her Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), a post graduate programme from the Sorbonne on the consequences of the cruise industry in the archipelago of French Polynesia with a case study on the Aranui, a mixed freighter that goes from Tahiti to the isolated Marquesas islands.[3]
Career
[edit]Eschapasse began her career as a freelance writer and published articles for l'Entracte, CineLibre (MK2), Air France Magazine, Le Guide du Routard and the Figaro Etudiant for which she wrote under the tenure of Laurent Seksik as the Figaro Etudiant Editor-in-chief. In Tahiti, she was a freelance reporter for RFO Tahiti. She later decided to embark on the London Senator, a commercial freighter from Port Saint Louis du Rhone near Marseilles to New York to emigrate to the United States.[4][5] She got introduced to the French and Francophile community of New York and was offered a position at the Paris American Club to coordinate their events.[6][7]
Eschapasse entered the United Nations in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Field Support. She has a position at the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.[8][9] She has been involved in the various Associations and Clubs of the United Nations. She served on the board of the United Nations Staff Recreational Council, the United Nations Travel Club and has been for a decade the President of the AFFIN, the Association of French International Civil Servants at the UN,[10][11] for which she organized multiple events with High Level French Officials, screenings of Luc Hardy's documentary in the ECOSOC Chamber and other movies and moderated conferences for SOS Sahel and Surgeons of Hope.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Counter-Terrorism Committee Open briefing : The work of CTED with Member States of South & South-East Asia pursuant to Security Council resolution 2395 (2017) | Consejo de Seguridad - Comité contra el Terrorismo (CCT)". www.un.org. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Interview with Sibylle – A Parisian expat living in New York City | Expat Arrivals". www.expatarrivals.com. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Sibylle Eschapasse – Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation". www.jl911.org. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ Focus, Expat (2016-01-18). "Interview With Sibylle Eschapasse, United Nations". Expat Focus. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Executive Board Members | UN Staff Union New York". Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Sibylle's Style Diary: Sibylle Eschapasse on Being Parisian Influenced With the Flair of New York". The Epoch Times. 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Meet Our Heroes: Medical Volunteers and Surgeons – Surgeons of Hope". Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ https://blog.justlanded.com/expat-interviews/expat-interview-un-worker-sibylle-eschapasse/
- ^ https://www.waterstones.com/author/sibylle-eschapasse/642645
- ^ https://www.routard.com/mag_carnet/98/en_cargo_vers_new_york.htm
- ^ Magazine, Harlem World (2018-12-03). "Philanthropist Jean Shafiroff Hosts Event In Honor Of Victims Of The 2018 California Wildfires". Harlem World Magazine. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Staff Union Leadership | UN Staff Union New York". Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ SAXO.com. "Få Argy Boy! af Sibylle Eschapasse som Paperback bog på engelsk - 9781480804722". SAXO.com (in Danish). Retrieved 2024-09-08.