Isabelle Longuet, new director of the Mission Val de Loire

Isabelle Longuet previously worked as Follow-Up Officer for the UNESCO World Heritage Convention at national level at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. She has also managed the France-UNESCO Convention for heritage, a partnership agreement intended to mobilise French know-how in the interests of initiatives to protect and promote architectural, urban and landscape heritage in other countries. The Mission Val de Loire is the inter-regional structure funded by the Centre and Pays-de-la-Loire regions and tasked with coordinating inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the Loire Valley. Since June, it has been chaired by Jacques Auxiette , President of the Pays-de-la-Loire region.