In cooperation with President Juncker and High Representative Mogherini, Ambassador Pierre Vimont has been appointed as personal  envoy of EU president Donald Tusk to lead preparations for the Valetta Conference between EU and African countries, called for by the special European Council of last April. His role will in particular be to ensuring coherence in the EU’s preparatory process in order to tackle the causes of illegal migration and combat the smuggling and trafficking of human beings.

Ambassador Vimont is a former secretary general of the European External Action Service and former Permanent Representative to the EU.