Jean-Pierre Berçot (born 3 November 1947, Hanoi) is a French ambassador and politician.
[1][2][3] During his career, he visited Madagascar, Comoros, Lebanon, Mali, Burundi, and Colombia as Deputy Head of Mission.
[4] After attending École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr[4] in Cambodia,[1] Berçot served in the French Navy, earning the rank of captain in 1980.
[1] Berçot was First Secretary to Madagascar in 1987 and subsequently returned to the country and to Comoros over the next two years on diplomatic missions.
[1][5] On 1 August 2004, he said that France would deploy 200 soldiers to help secure Chad's eastern border with Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region.