Lucie Godeau has been appointed AFP's Jakarta bureau chief, as part of a raft of changes announced by the agency.

She takes up the position on September 1. Godeau joined AFPTV in 2002 and as a Russian speaker, was posted in 2003 to the Moscow bureau where she covered economics before being transferred to the London bureau in 2006. Four years later she joined the Paris economics department where she covered new technology and the media.

AFP has also announced that Marc Braibant (62) will take over as deputy global news director in October, succeeding Christophe Schmidt who becomes the agency's political editor.

Before becoming Montreal bureau chief in 2013, Braibant was in charge of the design, development and deployment of the Iris editorial system for text. He was technical editor-in-chief between 2006 and 2011. He joined AFP in 1988 with a doctorate in economics and a DEA in development economics.

Other international appointments announced are Katell Abiven (39) to be Havana bureau chief (from Montevideo), Sarah Benhaida (30) as Baghdad bureau chief (from deputy chief), Emma Charlton (41) to head AFP's English desk in Washington (from deputy head), Daniel Kemp (43) to bureau chief in the Hague (from Brussels), Michael Mainville (43), to Moscow bureau chief (from head of the AFP English desk in Nicosia and deputy Middle East editor), Françoise Michel (62) to Brussels bureau chief (from head of the society service), Denis Rousseau (62) returns to Latin America as San José bureau chief (from the editing desk), Eric Thomas (54) to Montreal bureau chief (from human resources), and Chantal Valery (50) to Athens bureau chief (from news editor at the Toulouse bureau).