Sylvie Bermann was France Ambassador to the UK from 2014 to 2017. She also represented France in Beijing from 2011 to 2014 and in Moscow from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, she was the first woman to be elevated to the dignity of France ambassador.
A real audience hit on Netflix, the series The Diplomat had accumulated 60 million hours of viewing in France, just ten days after its release, on April 20. The short (eight episodes) first season of this American production features Kate Wyler, an American diplomat parachuted into the post of ambassador in London, while a British aircraft carrier has just been attacked in the Persian Gulf.
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Accustomed to sensitive terrain, this former head of mission in Afghanistan will have to manage an incandescent geopolitical situation... and a chaotic relationship. Former ambassador Sylvie Bermann saw this series that fascinated French viewers. It unravels for us the true from the false. Warning, spoilers
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