René Maheu

René Gabriel Eugene Maheu (March 28, 1905 – December 19, 1975) was a French professor of philosophy and the sixth Director-General of UNESCO.

He was a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

[1] He was head of the French Information Office in London (1936–1939) and after teaching in Morocco (1940–1942) during World War II, he occupied a managerial post in the France-Afrique press agency in Algiers, before joining the Executive Office of the Resident-General in Rabat.

In 1946 he entered UNESCO as Chief, Division of Free Flow of Information.

In 1949 Jaime Torres Bodet appointed him Director of his Executive Office.