Following a postgraduate degree in private law from Université Paris II, Amaury de Hauteclocque decided to pursue a career as a police commissioner in 1992.

He joined the Paris Criminal Investigation Department at 36 quai des Orfèvres, where he was assigned to the drug squad and then the crime squad.

In October 2001, he was put in charge of the anti-terrorism section (SAT-PP).

In 2005, he became deputy head of the anti-terrorism coordination unit.

From 2007 to 2012, he headed up the Research, Assistance, Intervention and Dissuasion team (RAID).

Until May 2013, he was sub-director of international and cross-border affairs and security in the French border police (PAF).

Amaury de Hauteclocque joined the Covéa Group in September 2013 as Head of Cooperative Strategies.

He was made Chief Human Cooperations Officer at Covéa in 2018.