On 16 June 2016 he announced he would be resigning effective 1 September 2016, being replaced by Helga Schmid, who has been political director of the EEAS and as such, been involved in the Iran nuclear negotiations.

Le Roy worked at French oil and gas company Total for ten years and entered public service in 1990 as deputy prefect of the Eure-et-Loir region.

From September 2007 to 2008, he was Ambassador in charge of the Union for the Mediterranean, a project devised by Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president at the time, to deepen relations between the EU and the countries of the region.

[3] In December 2007, he masterminded a declaration issued in Rome by the governments of France, Italy and Spain to reassure Turkey that the union would not affect its membership negotiations with the EU.

In 1995, he served as Deputy to the United Nations Special Coordinator for Sarajevo and Director of Operations for the restoration of essential public services.