Jérôme Champagne [SEP] educated at
a candidate to replace Blatter in FIFA's presidency elections of 2015 and 2016. However, each time he failed to secure enough support.
Youth and education.
Jérôme Champagne was educated at the Lycée d'Arsonval in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés(France) before entering in 1978 at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) where he graduated in 1981 as well as at the Ecole Nationale des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) . Eligible for the École nationale d'administration in 1982, he joined thereafter the Ministry
Jérôme Champagne
Jérôme Champagne (born June 15, 1958 in Paris) is a former French diplomat who served from 1983 to 1998, and then became a consultant in international football, serving as an executive at FIFA from 1999 to 2010.
He transitioned from diplomacy to football as a result of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he was Diplomatic Advisor and Chief of Protocol of the French organizing committee. He then joined FIFA where he successively held the positions of international adviser to the President (1999–2002), Deputy Secretary