Declan McCavana

Declan McCavana (born 1963) is a French language scholar and professor from Northern Ireland.

Career

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]

Awards

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