Maxime Tandonnet (7 October 1958 – 21 September 2024) was a French civil servant and writer.

[1] Born in Caudéran [fr] on 7 October 1958, Tandonnet graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux in 1979 and from the École nationale d'administration in 1992.

[2] After his military service in the French Navy, he was named as a secretary of foreign affairs at the Embassy of France in Sudan for two years.

He then joined the directorate for French citizens abroad in North Africa and the Middle East.

[6] The press lauded him as President Nicolas Sarkozy's main advisor on immigration,[7] though he faced criticism for the proximity of his beliefs to those of the National Front.