About the Ambassador

On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Philippe BRONCHAIN presented copies of his credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation, and Burkinabè Abroad, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union to Burkina Faso.

A Belgian national, Philippe BRONCHAIN was born on December 16, 1965, in Charleroi, Belgium. He holds a master's degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain.

He began his diplomatic career in 2004. Among other positions, he worked successively from 2006 to 2009 for the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and from 2009 to 2013 at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the UN in Geneva (Switzerland). He was also political advisor to the Belgian Embassy in Bujumbura (Burundi) in 2016, before moving to Lubumbashi as Consul General from August 2016 to April 2018, then Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at the Embassy in Kinshasa from May 2018 to August 2019. From September 2019 to August 2022, he is Ambassador of Belgium to Pakistan and Afghanistan, residing in Islamabad.

In September 2025, Philippe BRONCHAIN was assigned to the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union to Burkina Faso.

Before taking up this position, his first within the European External Action Service, Philippe BRONCHAIN served from August 2022 to the present as Minister Plenipotentiary and Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the same time, until February 4, 2025, he was also Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region to the Central Administration of the FPS Foreign Affairs in Brussels.

Philippe BRONCHAIN speaks French, English, and Dutch. A former reserve officer, he is passionate about travel, discovery, and reading.