Emié previously served as the Director of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) (French: Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure), France's main external intelligence agency from June 2017 until January 2024.

He was also the French Ambassador in five countries (Algeria, United Kingdom, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan) from 1998 to 2017.

Emié served as Private Secretary (1993–95) to Alain Juppé, and as Minister-Counsellor to President Jacques Chirac.

[2][3] In 1998, he was appointed Ambassador to the Jordan and, in 2002, was given the responsibility of being France's Director of North Africa and the Middle Eastern Affairs.

He was the head of the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence agency, from June 2017 until his replacement in January 2024.