{{short description|French senior civil servant|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Adolphe Colrat | image = | office = Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes | term_start = 20 June 2013<ref name=a>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000027587690&fastPos=8&fastReqId=24125700&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title=Décret du 20 juin 2013 portant nomination du préfet des Alpes-Maritimes (hors classe) - M. COLRAT (Adolphe)|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end = 3 November 2016 | predecessor = Christophe Mirmand | successor = Georges-François Leclerc | office2 = Prefect of Manche | term_start2 = 22 July 2011<ref name=b>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024388834&fastPos=9&fastReqId=851029008&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 22 juillet 2011 portant nomination du préfet de la Manche - M. Colrat (Adolphe) |last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end2 = 20 June 2013 | predecessor2 = Jean-Pierre Laflaquière | successor2 = Danièle Polvé-Montmasson | office3 = Prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle | term_start3 = 23 December 2010<ref name=c>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023278767&fastPos=10&fastReqId=1096356355&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 23 décembre 2010 portant nomination du préfet de Meurthe-et-Moselle - M. Colrat (Adolphe) |last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end3 = 22 July 2011 | predecessor3 = Dominique Bellion | successor3 = Raphaël Bartolt | office4 = High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia | term_start4 = 13 June 2008<ref name=d>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000018982546&fastPos=14&fastReqId=482134422&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 13 juin 2008 portant nomination d'un haut-commissaire de la République - M. Colrat (Adolphe) |last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end4 = 23 December 2010 | predecessor4 = Anne Boquet | successor4 = Richard Didier | office5 = Prefect of Ardennes | term_start5 = 9 January 2004<ref name=e>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000798474&fastPos=22&fastReqId=256268784&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 9 janvier 2004 portant nomination d'un préfet|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end5 = 28 August 2006 | predecessor5 = Bernard Lemaire | successor5 = Catherine Delmas-Comolli | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|04|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lyon, Rhône, France | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Sciences Po * École Normale Supérieure * École nationale d'administration }} | death_date = | death_place = }}
'''Adolphe Colrat''' (born 15 April 1955 in Lyon, France) is a French senior civil servant who served as the French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia from 2008 to 2011. He succeeded Anne Boquet in the post.
==Early life == Colrat grew up in Lyon.<ref name=semaine>{{cite web |url=https://www.lasemaine.fr/adolphe-colrat-les-lettres-de-l-etat/ |title=Adolphe Colrat, les Lettres de l'Etat |publisher=Le Semaine |author=Pierre Taribo |date=30 January 2011 |language=French |accessdate=14 January 2021}}</ref> He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), agrégé de lettres classiques, graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and of the National School of Public Administration (France) (ENA).<ref name=semaine/>
== Career == Colrat held the post of chief of staff for the French police commissioner in Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, from 1983 until 1985.<ref name=appointed/> He served as the prefecture secretary general in Réunion beginning in 1992.<ref name=appointed/>
Colrat served as the head of civil protection at the Prefecture of the French capital, Paris from April 2001 until February 2004.<ref name=stability>{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2008/07/01/official-urges-stability-french-polynesia |title=OFFICIAL URGES STABILITY IN FRENCH POLYNESIA |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=1 July 2008 |accessdate=14 January 2021 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115170809/http://www.pireport.org/articles/2008/07/01/official-urges-stability-french-polynesia |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as the Prefect of the Ardennes department from 2004 until 2006.<ref name=stability/>
Colrat later became temporary director of political, administrative and financial affairs at the French Ministry for Overseas Territories for two years from August 2006 until 2008.
== High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia == Colrat was appointed High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia by the Sarkozy government in June 2008.<ref name=appointed>{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2008/06/16/new-high-commissioner-tahiti-appointed |title=NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER IN TAHITI APPOINTED |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=16 June 2008 |accessdate=14 January 2021}}</ref> His predecessor, Anne Boquet, departed French Polynesia on 29 June 2008, after serving three years as the first female High Commissioner.<ref name=eastwest>{{cite news|title=New French High Commissioner Takes Tahiti Post |url=http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2008/July/07-08-12.htm |work=Tahitipresse |publisher=East-West Center |date=2008-07-07 |accessdate=2009-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126213618/http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2008/July/07-08-12.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2016 }}</ref>
He arrived in French Polynesia with his wife on Saturday night of 5 July 2008 to assume his position as High Commissioner.<ref name=eastwest/> Colrat was greeted at the Faa'a International Airport in Papeete by French Polynesian President Gaston Tong Sang, members of the Assembly of French Polynesia and other local Tahitian-based politicians.<ref name=eastwest/> He was sworn in as High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia on Monday 7 July 2008.<ref name=eastwest/>
==Honours and decorations== ===National honours=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 45%" |- ! style="width:100px;"| Ribbon bar !! Honour |- | 100px | Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour<ref name=f>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000027697953&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id|title= Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant promotion et nomination|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> |- | 100px | Commandeur of the National Order of Merit<ref name=g>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000034539587&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id|title= Décret du 2 mai 2017 portant promotion et nomination|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> |}
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