{{Short description|French official}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Marc Del Grande | image = Wailly stele 4e zouaves inauguration 09.jpg | caption = | office = Prefect of French Guiana<ref name="decree">{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000038747532&fastPos=2&fastReqId=1770603320&oldAction=rechExpTexteJorf#JORFARTI000038747539|title=Décret du 10 juillet 2019 portant nomination du préfet de la région Guyane, préfet de la Guyane - M. DEL GRANDE (Marc) |last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> | term_start = 5 August 2019 <ref name="premiere"/> | term_end = 25 November 2020 | predecessor = Patrice Faure | successor = Thierry Queffelec | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1965|3|15}} | birth_place = Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France | siblings = | occupation = | years_active = }}
'''Marc Del Grande''' (born 15 March 1965) is a French senior civil servant and was the Prefect of French Guiana.
Marc Del Grande was born in Laxou and graduated at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr.<ref name="gazette_pas_de_calais">{{Cite news|url=https://www.gazettenpdc.fr/2015/08/un-nouveau-secretaire-general-et-sous-prefet-d%E2%80%99arras/|title=Un nouveau secrétaire général et sous-préfet d’Arras|language=fr|access-date=10 April 2020|website=La Gazette - Nord-Pas de Calais}}</ref> Between 1991 and 1992, Del Grande was a military observer of the United Nations in Cambodia in the Khmer-held Angkor region.<ref name="lessor"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lesbiographies.com/Biographie/DEL-GRANDE-Marc,155858|title=Extrait de la fiche de M. Marc DEL GRANDE|website=Les Biographies|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> Between 1999 and 2001, Del Grande was the commander of the Gendarmerie of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana.<ref name="lessor">{{Cite news|url=https://lessor.org/a-la-une/marc-del-grande-ex-commandant-de-compagnie-de-gendarmerie-en-guyane-revient-comme-prefet/|title=Marc Del Grande, ex-commandant de compagnie de Gendarmerie en Guyane, revient comme préfet!|website=L'Essor|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> Between 21 July 2015 and June 2019,<ref name="lessor"/> Del Grande was appointed as the Secretary General and Sub Prefect of Pas-de-Calais.<ref name="gazette_pas_de_calais"/> On 5 August 2019,<ref name="premiere">{{Cite news|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guyane/marc-del-grande-nouveau-prefet-guyane-pris-ses-fonctions-736562.html|title=Marc Del Grande, the new prefect of Guyane has started his functions (in French)|access-date=9 April 2020|website=Guyane la 1ère}}</ref> Del Grande became the Prefect of French Guiana.<ref name="decree" /> On 25 November 2020, Grande was replaced by Thierry Queffelec as Prefect.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guyane.gouv.fr/Actualites/Salle-de-presse/2020/Decembre-2020/Thierry-QUEFFELEC-Nouveau-prefet-de-la-region-Guyane |title=Thierry QUEFFELEC - Nouveau préfet de la région Guyane|website=Government of French Guiana|access-date=17 April 2021|language=fr}}</ref>
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