Nathalie Loiseau is a French diplomat and academic administrator. She was the director of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) from 2012 to 2017. Loiseau joined the French foreign service in 1986. She served as a diplomat in Indonesia from 1990 to 1992. She was an advisor to Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in 1993-1995. She later served diplomatic missions in Dakar, Senegal and Rabat, Morocco. She served as the Communications Director at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. from 2002 to 2007. She was the head of Human Resources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2011, and as its chief of staff from 2011 to 2012. Loiseau was the director of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) between 2012 and 2017. On 21 June 2017, she succeeded Marielle de Sarnez as the French Minister for European Affairs.