Jérôme Bonnafont (born 8 January 1961) is a French diplomat who is serving as the president of the United Nations Security Council for the month of September 2026. He has also served as the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York since 17 March 2025.
From 2021 to 2025, he previously served as the permanent representative of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Ambassador of France to Spain, and served as Ambassador of France to India from 2007 to 2011.
Bonnafont is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the Denis Diderot class of the École nationale d'administration in 1986. He served in early diplomatic postings in New Delhi, Kuwait, and the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York.
He was the adviser for global affairs and spokesperson of the Presidency of the Republic from 1997 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac, chief of staff to Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé from 2011 to 2012, Director of the North Africa and Middle East Department of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019, and adviser to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2020.
He also served as the rapporteur-general of the États généraux de la diplomatie, a consultation on the reform of the French diplomatic service launched by President Emmanuel Macron.
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