Hubert Derache (born 5 May 1953 in Morteau, France) is a French civil servant who served as the Prefect of Mayotte from 17 August 2009 to 4 July 2011, having been appointed by order-in-council of the Council of Ministers of France on 2 July 2009.
Hubert Derache enlisted in 1973, following a time in school and army corps of infantry as Head of Section and Unit Commander in France and its overseas territories, and in Lebanon under UN auspices.
In 2002 Derache began to work at the Outre-mer (overseas) Ministry; on 15 May 2002 under the administration of minister Brigitte Girardin and her successor François Baroin, in charge of cross-discipline monitoring of Mayotte, and later, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon as well.
[1] He held his last sub-prefect position at Aix-en-Provence from 11 September 2006 until 2009, when he left[2] to become prefect of Mayotte.
Derache had previously been technical advisor to the Minister of Outre-Mer Brigitte Girardin for three years, with responsibility for monitoring Mayotte.