Sibylle Eschapasse

Sibylle Eschapasse is a French-born International Civil Servant at the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and an author. She is the current Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Staff Union.
Early life
Sibylle Eschapasse grew up in Paris, France. Her mother Marie-Astrid Decré comes from the prominent Decré family who founded the first department store in Nantes, Decré, which was in 1931 the largest department store in Europe and was later sold to the Galeries Lafayette. Her father René Victor Eschapasse was a banker and has represented the Credit Commercial de France (CCF) in Morocco. She is the granddaughter of painter René Eschapasse, and has three brothers including Le Point journalist Baudouin Eschapasse. Although her mother comes from a catholic family, her father is of Jewish heritage through his mother and dutch grandmother Sarah de Groot whose brother Juda de Groot died in Auschwitz on 12 February 1943, and other members of the family in Sobibor and Auschwitz. Her great grandmother on her mother side Marguerite Marie Dupont comes from Louis Dupont who founded the Louis Dupont bank. Her whole genealogy has been published.
She went to school in Saint-Louis-de Gonzague (Franklin), a prestigious private school in Paris and was in the same class than TV journalist Léa Salamé and actor Rossif Sutherland.
She attended a year of high school in Lycée Victor Duruy before to move two years in Casablanca, Morocco where she went to the French High School, Lycée Lyautey in which she graduated in 1996.
Education
Eschapasse studied History and Geography at Sorbonne University. She completed her Master of Geography on the topic of the relationship between man and the coral reef in Wallis and Futuna after spending 5 months in the French island of Wallis in the South Pacific to complete the cartography of the coast and study the consequences of anthropization on the coral reef. She then moved to Tahiti for 4 months to complete her Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), a post graduate programme from the Sorbonne on the consequences of the cruise industry in the archipelago of French Polynesia with a case study on the Aranui, a mixed freighter that goes from Tahiti to the isolated Marquesas islands.
Career
During her time in Paris while being a student, she worked as a freelance writer and published articles for l’Entracte, CineLibre (MK2), Air France Magazine, Le Guide du Routard and the Figaro Etudiant for which she wrote under the tenure of best seller author Laurent Seksik as the Figaro Etudiant’ Editor-in-chief. In Tahiti, she was a freelance reporter for RFO Tahiti.
At age 23, in September 2002, she decided to embark on the London Senator, a commercial freighter from Port Saint Louis du Rhone near Marseilles to New York to emigrate to the United States of America. Her 12 day journey diary relating her experience on the container ship was published by Le Guide du Routard.
Upon arrival in New York, she moved to the convent of Mercy, in Brooklyn, in which she was the only non religious and did an internship in the Press Office of the French Consulate. During this time, she got introduced to the french and francophile community of New York and got offered in 2003 a position at the Paris American Club to coordinate their events.
In 2005, she entered the United Nations in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Field Support. Since 2009, she has a position at the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.
She has been very involved in the various Associations and Clubs of the United Nations. She served on the board of the United Nations Staff Recreational Council, the United Nations Travel Club and has been for 10 years the President of the AFFIN, the Association of French International Civil Servants at the UN, for which she organized multiple events with High Level French Officials, screenings of Luc Hardy’s documentary in the ECOSOC Chamber and other movies and moderated conferences for SOS Sahel and Surgeons of Hope.
She has been a staff representative and the Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Staff Union 44th Council for whom she represented the Union at multiple Staff Management Committee meetings in Tanzania, Thailand, Chile, Germany, Spain. She is currently on the Executive Board of the 47th Council of the United Nations Staff Union and the Coordinator of its Communication committee.
Community engagement
Sibylle Eschapasse has been involved since she arrived in New York as a volunteer with numerous Associations such as the Association des Francais Fonctionnaires Internationaux (AFFIN), Union des Francais de l’Etranger (UFE), Fondation Jerome Lohez, Fondation Les Apprentis d’Ateuil, The French Will Never Forget, the Committee of French Speaking Societies, the Paris American Club, Rencontre des Auteurs Francophones, SOS Sahel, Surgeons of Hope and Association des Maîtres Cuisiniers de France with whom she hosted a series of TV segments on PIX11. She is a well known and respected member of the French-American Community.
Personal life
She completed her certificate of yoga teacher at YogaWorks and self published a children’s book “Argy Boy, a New York Dog Tale”. She is the mother of 5 year old Ted Eschapasse. They now reside in Larchmont, Westchester after moving from Manhattan in January 2024.

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