[3] In addition, Errera also serves on the advisory committee of the International Capital Conference (ICC),[4] which is an annually held forum gathering China's top entrepreneurs, CEOs and officials with their European counterparts.

[5] Errera served as a member of the supervisory board of Orano (formerly AREVA),[6] the global leader in nuclear energy (2007-2009) and a Director of Electricité de France (EDF, 2007-2009).

[10] Mr Errera was a fierce defender of the principled and moral view not to invade Iraq, and was characterised as a"model of discretion, and master of the unspoken inference".

[11] He also served as the French ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)[12] and director general for political affairs.

During that time, he was one of the architects of the St Malo Treaty in 1998, which was the founding moment of European defence[13] He was the French special representative of President Chirac for strategic dialogue with India during 1998–2002.