Jérémie Émile Patrick Bonnelame (born October 24, 1938) is a Seychellois political figure and diplomat.He was Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Commission from 1993 to 1997, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2005, and was the Permanent Representative of the Seychelles to the United Nations from 2005[1] to 2007.[3] He worked as a teacher at the Modern Secondary School of Seychelles from 1967 to 1975, as well as Editor-in-Chief of L'Écho des Îles, a Catholic monthly.[1] He was not included in the government named on August 3, 1993[4] and was instead appointed as Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Commission in the same year.[8] In April 2008, Bonnelame was additionally appointed by President Michel as a member of a constitutional review commission.
