Declan McCavana

Declan McCavana was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1963. He attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast and then Trinity College Dublin from which he obtained a B.A. (Hons) in French.^[1]

He then moved to France where he initially taught as a ‘lecteur d’anglais’ at the Sorbonne and at Ecole Normale Supérieure.^[2] He is the founder and Honorary President of the French Debating Association (FDA).^[3]

• 2015: MBE For services to the promotion of the English language in France^[4]