Adolphe Colrat

Adolphe Colrat
Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes
In office 20 June 2013[1] – 3 November 2016
Preceded by	Christophe Mirmand
Succeeded by	Georges-François Leclerc
Prefect of Manche
In office 22 July 2011[2] – 20 June 2013
Preceded by	Jean-Pierre Laflaquière
Succeeded by	Danièle Polvé-Montmasson
Prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle
In office 23 December 2010[3] – 22 July 2011
Preceded by	Dominique Bellion
Succeeded by	Raphaël Bartolt
High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
In office 13 June 2008[4] – 23 December 2010
Preceded by	Anne Boquet
Succeeded by	Richard Didier
Prefect of Ardennes
In office 9 January 2004[5] – 28 August 2006
Preceded by	Bernard Lemaire
Succeeded by	Catherine Delmas-Comolli
Personal details
Born	(1955-04-25) 25 April 1955 (age 69) Lyon, Rhône, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Sciences Po École Normale Supérieure École nationale d'administration

Adolphe Colrat (born 15 April 1955 in Lyon, France) is a French senior civil servant who served as the French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia from 2008 to 2011. He succeeded Anne Boquet in the post.

Early life

Colrat grew up in Lyon.^[6] He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), agrégé de lettres classiques, graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and of the National School of Public Administration (France) (ENA).^[6]

Career

Colrat held the post of chief of staff for the French police commissioner in Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, from 1983 until 1985.^[7] He served as the prefecture secretary general in Réunion beginning in 1992.^[7]

Colrat served as the head of civil protection at the Prefecture of the French capital, Paris from April 2001 until February 2004.^[8] He served as the Prefect of the Ardennes department from 2004 until 2006.^[8]

Colrat later became temporary director of political, administrative and financial affairs at the French Ministry for Overseas Territories for two years from August 2006 until 2008.

High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia

Colrat was appointed High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia by the Sarkozy government in June 2008.^[7] His predecessor, Anne Boquet, departed French Polynesia on 29 June 2008, after serving three years as the first female High Commissioner.^[9]

He arrived in French Polynesia with his wife on Saturday night of 5 July 2008 to assume his position as High Commissioner.^[9] Colrat was greeted at the Faa'a International Airport in Papeete by French Polynesian President Gaston Tong Sang, members of the Assembly of French Polynesia and other local Tahitian-based politicians.^[9] He was sworn in as High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia on Monday 7 July 2008.^[9]

Honours and decorations

National honours

Ribbon bar	Honour
	Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour[10]
	Commandeur of the National Order of Merit[11]

References

1. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 20 juin 2013 portant nomination du préfet des Alpes-Maritimes (hors classe) - M. COLRAT (Adolphe)". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
2. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 22 juillet 2011 portant nomination du préfet de la Manche - M. Colrat (Adolphe)". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
3. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 23 décembre 2010 portant nomination du préfet de Meurthe-et-Moselle - M. Colrat (Adolphe)". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
4. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 13 juin 2008 portant nomination d'un haut-commissaire de la République - M. Colrat (Adolphe)". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
5. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 9 janvier 2004 portant nomination d'un préfet". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
6. Pierre Taribo (30 January 2011). "Adolphe Colrat, les Lettres de l'Etat" (in French). Le Semaine. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
7. "NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER IN TAHITI APPOINTED". Pacific Islands Report. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
8. "OFFICIAL URGES STABILITY IN FRENCH POLYNESIA". Pacific Islands Report. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
9. "New French High Commissioner Takes Tahiti Post". Tahitipresse. East-West Center. 2008-07-07. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
10. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
11. Government of the French Republic. "Décret du 2 mai 2017 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 June 2019.