{{short description|French senior civil servant|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Didier | image = | caption = | office = High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia | term_start = 23 December 2010<ref name=a>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023278774&fastPos=33&fastReqId=2003301249&navigator=navigatornaturetexte&modifier=DECRET&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 23 décembre 2010 portant nomination du haut-commissaire de la République en Polynésie française - M. Didier (Richard)|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end = 1 August 2012 | predecessor = Adolphe Colrat | successor = Jean-Pierre Laflaquière | office2 = Prefect of Haute-Loire | term_start2 = 28 July 2008<ref name=b>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000019267366&fastPos=48&fastReqId=2003301249&navigator=navigatornaturetexte&modifier=DECRET&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title=Décret du 28 juillet 2008 portant nomination du préfet de la Haute-Loire - M. Didier (Richard)|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end2 = 23 December 2010 | predecessor2 = Christophe Mirmand | successor2 = Denis Conus | office3 = Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna | term_start3 = 20 July 2006<ref name=c>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000266327&fastPos=54&fastReqId=2003301249&navigator=navigatornaturetexte&modifier=DECRET&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 20 juillet 2006 portant nomination du préfet, administrateur supérieur des îles Wallis-et-Futuna - M. Didier (Richard)|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> | term_end3 = 28 July 2008 | predecessor3 = Xavier de Fürst | successor3 = Philippe Paolantoni | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1961|2|23}} | birth_place = Chatou, Yvelines, France | siblings = | occupation = | yearsactive = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * École nationale d'administration * University of Paris<ref name=e>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Le-nouveau-Haut-commissaire-Richard-Didier-arrive-en-Polynesie-francaise_a16764.html|title= Le nouveau Haut-commissaire Richard Didier arrive en Polynésie française|last=Tahiti Infos|website=tahiti-infos.com|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> }} }} '''Richard Didier''' (born 23 February 1961 in Chatou, France) is a French senior civil servant.
Didier served as the Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna for two years, from 2006 to 2008. Didier's time was marked with tensions and succession struggles between several of Wallis and Futuna's royal families and clans following the death of Tomasi Kulimoetoke II in 2007.<ref name=pm>{{cite news |title=France Appoints New Administrator For Wallis And Futuna |url=http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=16503940&cat=e597bd109c960ae3 |work=Pacific Magazine (cache) |date=2008-02-28 |access-date=2009-07-29 |archive-date=2020-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328113209/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aygm_35iO_b8J%3Afeeds.bignewsnetwork.com%2Fredir.php%3Fjid%3D16503940%26cat%3De597bd109c960ae3+France+Appoints+New+Administrator+For+Wallis+And+Futuna+%22pacific+magazine%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us |url-status=dead }}</ref> Didier left Wallis and Futuna for metropolitan France in 2008. He was succeeded as Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna by Philippe Paolantoni.<ref name="pm" />
Didier was appointed the Prefect of the Haute-Loire (Upper Loire) department by the French Cabinet at a meeting on 28 July 2008.<ref name=pm/>
He was Prefect without assignment<ref name=d>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?dateTexte=&categorieLien=id&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000026252423&fastPos=27&fastReqId=2003301249&navigator=navigatornaturetexte&modifier=DECRET&oldAction=rechExpMesuresNominatives|title= Décret du 1er août 2012 portant nomination d'un préfet hors cadre - M. Didier (Richard)|last=Government of the French Republic|website=legifrance.gouv.fr|access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> before taking up office as High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia in December 2010.
==Honours and decorations== ===National honours=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 40%" |- ! style="width:100px;"| Ribbon bar !! Honour |- | 100px | Knight of the National Order of Merit |}
===Ministerial honours=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 40%" |- ! style="width:100px;"| Ribbon bar !! Honour |- | 100px | Knight of the Order of Academic Palms |}
===Civilian medals=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 40%" |- ! style="width:100px;"| Ribbon bar !! Honour |- | 100px | Medal of youth and sports |}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Wallis_Futuna.html World Statesman: Wallis and Futuna]
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