List of Sciences Po People
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This is a list of alumni, former staff, and those otherwise associated with Sciences Po. For further information, refer to the List of Sciences Po Alumni in the French Wikipedia. Neither list is complete.

Heads of international organisations

  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...

     (b. 1922), United Nations Secretary-General
    United Nations Secretary-General
    The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the Secretariat of the United Nations, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations....

     (1992–1996)
  • Michel Camdessus
    Michel Camdessus
    Michel Camdessus is a French applied economist and administrator who was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. To date, he is the longest serving Managing Director of the IMF....

     (b. 1933), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
    International Monetary Fund
    The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

     (1987–2000)
  • Nicole Fontaine
    Nicole Fontaine
    Nicole Fontaine is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party...

     (b. 1942), President of the European Parliament
    President of the European Parliament
    The President of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President's signature is required for enacting most EU laws and the EU budget.Presidents serve...

     (1999–2001)
  • Pascal Lamy
    Pascal Lamy
    Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade...

     (b. 1947), Director-General of the World Trade Organization
    World Trade Organization
    The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...

  • Pierre Lellouche
    Pierre Lellouche
    Pierre Lellouche is a French politician and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement party. He is Secretary of State for Foreign Trade under the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, Christine Lagarde. He was also the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from November 2004 to 17...

    , President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
    NATO Parliamentary Assembly
    Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Alliance. Its current President is Karl A...

  • Roger Ockrent (b. 1907–1983), Chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (1957–1974)
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...

     (b. 1949), ex-Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
    International Monetary Fund
    The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

  • Simone Veil
    Simone Veil
    Simone Veil, DBE is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France....

     (b. 1927), President of the European Parliament
    President of the European Parliament
    The President of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President's signature is required for enacting most EU laws and the EU budget.Presidents serve...

     (1979–1984)
  • Wan Waithayakon
    Wan Waithayakon
    Wan Waithayakon , known in the West as Wan Waithayakon , was a Thai diplomat. He was elected President of the Eleventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly, while serving as Thailand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations...

     (1891–1976), President of the United Nations General Assembly
    President of the United Nations General Assembly
    The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly on a yearly basis.- Election :...

     (1956–1958)

World

  • Alpha Condé
    Alpha Condé
    Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who has been President of Guinea since December 2010. He was a political science professor at the University of Paris and spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and...

     (b. 1938), President of Guinea  (2010–present)
  • Edvard Beneš
    Edvard Beneš
    Edvard Beneš was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.- Youth :...

     (1884–1948), President of Czechoslovakia (1935–1948)
  • Paul Biya
    Paul Biya
    Paul Biya is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982. A native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose rapidly as a bureaucrat under President Ahmadou Ahidjo in the 1960s, serving as Secretary-General of the Presidency from 1968 to 1975 and then as Prime...

     (b. 1933), President of Cameroon (1982–present)
  • Habib Bourguiba
    Habib Bourguiba
    Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian statesman, the Founder and the first President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 until 7 November 1987...

     (1903–2000), President of Tunisia
    President of Tunisia
    The President of Tunisia, formally known as the President of the Tunisian Republic is the head of state of Tunisia. Tunisia is a presidential republic in which the president is the head of the executive branch of government with the assistance of the Prime Minister of Tunisia, formally the head of...

     (1957–1987)
  • Bảo Đại
    Bảo Đài
    Bảo Đài is a commune and village in Lục Nam District, Bac Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam.-References:...

     (1913–1997), Emperor of Vietnam (1926–1955), Emperor of Annam (1926–1945)
  • Chandrika Kumaratunga
    Chandrika Kumaratunga
    Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga born June 29, 1945) was the 4th Executive president of Sri Lanka, serving from November 12, 1994 to November 19, 2005. The daughter of two former Prime Ministers, she was also the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party until end of 2005...

     (b. 1945), President of Sri Lanka
    President of Sri Lanka
    The President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the head of government. The President is a dominant political figure in Sri Lanka. The office was created in 1978 but has grown so powerful there have been calls to restrict or even eliminate its power...

     (1994–2005)
  • Mohammed Mossadegh (1882–1967), Prime Minister of Iran
    Prime Minister of Iran
    Prime Minister of Iran was a political post in Iran that had existed during several different periods of time starting with the Qajar era until its most recent revival from 1979 to 1989 following the Iranian Revolution.-Prime Ministers of Qajar era:In the Qajar era, prime ministers were known by...

     (1951–1953), Time
    Time (magazine)
    Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

    magazine Man of the Year
    Person of the Year
    Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."- History :The tradition of selecting a Man of the Year...

     (1951)
  • Pridi Phanomyong
    Pridi Phanomyong
    Pridi Banomyong was a highly revered Thai politician. He was a former Prime Minister and Senior Statesman of Thailand, and was named one of the world's great personalities of the 20th century by UNESCO in 2000.-Family background:...

     (1900–1983), Revolutionary, Regent of Thailand (1944–1946), Prime Minister of Thailand
    Prime Minister of Thailand
    The Prime Minister of Thailand is the head of government of Thailand. The Prime Minister is also the chairman of the Cabinet of Thailand. The post has existed since the Revolution of 1932, when the country became a constitutional monarchy....

     (1946)
  • Pierre Trudeau
    Pierre Trudeau
    Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...

     (1919–2000), Prime Minister of Canada
    Prime Minister of Canada
    The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

     (1968–1979, 1980–1984)
  • Pierre Werner (1913–2002), Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959–1974, 1979–1984), so-called "father of the Euro
    Euro
    The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

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  • Rainier III
    Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
    Rainier III, Prince of Monaco , styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.Though he was best known outside of Europe for having married American...

     (1923–2005), Prince of Monaco
    Prince of Monaco
    The Reigning Prince or Princess of Monaco is the sovereign monarch and head of state of the Principality of Monaco. All Princes or Princesses thus far have taken the name of the House of Grimaldi, but have belonged to various other houses in male line...

     (1923–2005)

France

  • Jacques Chirac
    Jacques Chirac
    Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...

     (1932), President of the French Republic
    President of the French Republic
    The President of the French Republic colloquially referred to in English as the President of France, is France's elected Head of State....

     (1995–2007), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1983–1986, 1986–1988)
  • François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...

     (1916–1996), President of the French Republic
    President of the French Republic
    The President of the French Republic colloquially referred to in English as the President of France, is France's elected Head of State....

     (1981–1995)
  • Dominique de Villepin
    Dominique de Villepin
    Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007....

     (b. 1953), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (2005–2007)
  • Lionel Jospin
    Lionel Jospin
    Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...

     (b. 1937), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1997–2002)
  • Alain Juppé
    Alain Juppé
    Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac and the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010 to 2011...

     (b. 1945), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1995–1997)
  • Édouard Balladur
    Édouard Balladur
    Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.-Biography:Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France...

     (b. 1929), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1993–1995)
  • Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...

     (b. 1930), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1988–1991)
  • Laurent Fabius
    Laurent Fabius
    Laurent Fabius is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic.-Early life:...

     (b. 1946), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1983–1986)
  • Pierre Mauroy
    Pierre Mauroy
    Pierre Mauroy is a French Socialist politician and former Prime Minister under François Mitterrand . Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001. Mauroy is currently emeritus mayor of Lille.-Biography:...

     (b. 1928) Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1981–1984)
  • Raymond Barre
    Raymond Barre
    Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three Presidents and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981...

     (1924–2007), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1976–1981)
  • Jacques Chaban-Delmas
    Jacques Chaban-Delmas
    Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. In addition, for almost half a century, he was Mayor of Bordeaux and a deputy for the Gironde département....

     (1915–2000), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1969–1972)
  • Maurice Couve de Murville
    Maurice Couve de Murville
    Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle....

     (1907–1999), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1968–1969)
  • Michel Debré
    Michel Debré
    Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was a French Gaullist politician. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France, and was the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic...

     (1912–1996), Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (1959–1962)

World

  • L. Paul Bremer
    L. Paul Bremer
    Lewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...

     (b. 1941), U.S. Civil Administrator in Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

     (2003–2004)
  • William L. Eagleton
    William L. Eagleton
    William Lester Eagleton, Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat.-Early life:Born in Peoria, Illinois, Eagleton served in the United States Navy from 1944–46, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He joined the U.S...

    , United States Ambassador
  • Adrian A. Basora
    Adrian A. Basora
    Adrian Anthony Basora is an American diplomat, and former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He is currently a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute researching democratization in the post-Communist states of Europe and Central Asia, and a member of the Council on...

    , United States Ambassador
  • Joan E. Spero
    Joan E. Spero
    Joan Edelman Spero is the former President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council...

    , Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
  • Alain Destexhe
    Alain Destexhe
    Alain Destexhe is a Belgian liberal politician. He was elected senator for the Francophone electoral college in 2003, and again in 2007. Destexhe is a member of the liberal Reformist Movement and represents Belgium in the World Economic Forum. He was awarded the Prize of Liberty by Nova Civitas...

    , Belgian liberal Senator and author
  • Salome Zurabishvili, former French high-profile diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

    , former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the current Leader of the United Georgian Opposition
  • Ingrid Betancourt
    Íngrid Betancourt
    Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 23 February 2002 and was rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later on 2 July 2008...

    , Colombian Senator, anti-corruption activist, and Candidate for President of Colombia
    President of Colombia
    The President of Colombia is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Colombia. The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was part of "la Gran Colombia"...

  • François-Albert Angers
    François-Albert Angers
    François-Albert Angers was an eminent Québécois economist and defender of the cause of Quebec and the French language.-See also:*List of Presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal*Quebec nationalism...

    , eminent Canadian economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

  • Ertugrul Osman (1912–present), pretender to the title of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Head of the House of Osmanli
    Ottoman Dynasty
    The Ottoman Dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan...

     (1994–present)
  • Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (1924–1929), 1925 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

  • Caroline, Princess of Hanover
    Caroline, Princess of Hanover
    Caroline, Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco , formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover , has been heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco since 2005, a position which she previously held from 1957 to 1958.She is the wife of...

    , Princess
    Princess
    Princess is the feminine form of prince . Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or his daughters....

     of the Principality of Monaco, daughter of American actress Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly
    Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...

  • Abbas Hajizadeh, Duke of Davan
  • Stéphane Dion
    Stéphane Dion
    Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, MP is a Canadian politician who has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Laurent–Cartierville in Montreal since 1996. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2008...

    , Former leader of the Liberal Party
    Liberal Party of Canada
    The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

     of Canada
  • George Corm, former Minister of Finance of Lebanon (1998 to 2000)
  • Jihad Azour
    Jihad Azour
    Jihad Azour , , is a Lebanese economist and politician, he has served as Lebanon's Minister of Finance under Fouad Saniora's government from 2005 to 2008.-Education:...

    , Minister of Finance of Lebanon (2005–present)
  • Ghassan Salamé, former Minister of Culture of Lebanon (2000–2003), prolific author on Middle East politics
  • Brad Setser
    Brad Setser
    Brad Setser is an American economist and blogger. A former staff economist at the United States Department of the Treasury, he worked at Roubini Global Economics Monitor, along with Nouriel Roubini...

    , former Deputy Secretary in the US Treasury Department
  • Jonas Gahr Støre
    Jonas Gahr Støre
    Jonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having been appointed to Jens Stoltenberg's second cabinet on 17 October 2005. He represents the Norwegian Labour Party.-Personal life:...

    , Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway...

  • Bernard Landry
    Bernard Landry
    Bernard Landry, is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who served as the 28th Premier of Quebec , leader of the Opposition and leader of the Parti Québécois .-Personal:...

    , former Premier of Quebec
    Premier of Quebec
    The Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....

  • John Grimley, former White House
    White House
    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

     staff member in the Bush Administration, and advisor to former British foreign secretary David Owen, currently US-licensed attorney specialising in international trade.
  • Afif Safieh
    Afif Safieh
    Afif Safieh is a Palestinian diplomat. He was most recently the Palestinian ambassador to the Russian Federation.Safieh was born in Jerusalem in 1950 to a Christian family. As a child, he attended school in Jerusalem's College Des Frères. In 1972, he obtained a degree in Political Science and...

    , Palestinian
    Palestinian people
    The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

     Ambassador to the US, regarded as the most articulate living Palestinian diplomat
  • Michel de Salaberry, erstwhile Canadian Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Kingdom of Jordan
  • Yves-Thibault de Silguy
    Yves-Thibault de Silguy
    Yves-Thibault de Silguy is a French and European politician, born in Rennes, France. He served in the Santer Commission and was in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs.-References:...

    , EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Stanley Woodward
    Stanley Woodward
    Stanley Woodward, Sr. was the White House Chief of Protocol under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. He was a favorite social companion of FDR...

    , erstwhile US Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Canada
  • Ahmad Kamal
    Ahmad Kamal
    Ahmed Kamal is a retired Pakistani diplomat, most noted for his work at the United Nations. He served as a professional diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan for close to forty years until his retirement in 1999...

    , Pakistani Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to the United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

  • Howard Balloch
    Howard Balloch
    Howard Balloch is a former Canadian diplomat. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the People's Republic of China, Mongolia and to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.- External links :*...

    , erstwhile Canadian Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to China, Director at Zi Corporation
    Zi Corporation
    Zi Corporation was a software company based in Calgary, Canada specializing in Predictive text.On February 26, 2009, Nuance Communications .Nuance...

  • Sally Shelton-Colby
    Sally Shelton-Colby
    Sally Shelton-Colby is a Democratic American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy...

    , Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research in the US Department of State, erstwhile US Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Grenada
    Grenada
    Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

     and Barbados
    Barbados
    Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

  • Brady Anderson
    Brady Anderson
    Brady Kevin Anderson is an American former outfielder with the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball...

    , US Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to the United Republic of Tanzania
  • William Eagelton, Representative of UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara
    Western Sahara
    Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly...

    , erstwhile US Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

  • Jim Bullington, erstwhile US Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Bujumbura
    Bujumbura
    -Education:The University of Burundi is located in Bujumbura.Hope Africa University is located in BujumburaUniversité du Lac Tanganyika is located in Bujumbura-External links:**...

  • Roland Dumas
    Roland Dumas
    Roland Dumas is a lawyer and French Socialist politician who served notably as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993...

     (b. 1922), French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984–1993)
  • Francis Orlando Wilcox (1908–1985), Assistant Secretary of State of the USA (1955–1961)
  • James Foley
    James Foley
    James Foley is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, the son of a lawyer...

    , US Ambassador to Haiti (2003–2005)
  • Nawaf Salam
    Nawaf Salam
    Nawaf Salam is a Lebanese diplomat, academic, and jurist. He is currently serving as Lebanon's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.-Background and education:...

    , Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations http://www.un.int/lebanon
  • Charles Rizk
    Charles Rizk
    Charles Rizk , born in Beirut in 1935, is a Lebanese Maronite politician. A student at the prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Rizk began his political career as an aide to President Fuad Chehab...

    , Lebanese
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

     Justice minister 2005-
  • Nebahat Albayrak
    Nebahat Albayrak
    Nebahat Albayrak is a Turkish-Dutch politician and former civil servant. As a member of the Dutch Labour Party she is a former State Secretary for Justice in the Netherlands. Since May 12, 2010 she has been an MP. From April till August 2011 she was on maternity leave...

    , a Turkish–Dutch politician in the Netherlands. She is the current State Secretary of Justice
    Ministry of Justice (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Security and Justice is the Dutch ministry of justice. Until 14 October 2010, the ministry was just called Ministry of Justice , but at the start of the Rutte cabinet, the name changed because it had taken over some public safety duties from the Ministry of the Interior...

     in the Netherlands.
  • Božidar Đelić, vice-president of the Government of Serbia, 2007-
  • Ieng Sary
    Ieng Sary
    Ieng Sary was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Khmer Rouge until his defection to the government in 1996....

    , deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea
    Democratic Kampuchea
    The Khmer Rouge period refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea....

     from 1975 to 1979

France

  • Ministers (N.B. This is a small selection given almost every minister since the inception of the Fifth Republic
    Fifth Republic
    There have been several Fifth Republics in the course of history, including:* French Fifth Republic * Fifth Republic of the Philippines * Fifth Republic of South Korea...

     studied at the Institute.)
    • Ségolène Royal
      Ségolène Royal
      Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

      , Governor of the Poitou-Charentes
      Poitou-Charentes
      Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. The regional capital is Poitiers.-Politics:The regional council is composed of 56 members...

       region and a defeated 2007 presidential candidate.
    • Martine Aubry
      Martine Aubry
      Martine Aubry is a French politician. She has been the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since November 2008 and Mayor of Lille since March 2001...

      , former French Minister for Social Affairs, Mayor of Lille
      Lille
      Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

      , (in French: Martine Aubry)
    • Jack Lang
      Jack Lang (French politician)
      Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as France's Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and 1988 to 1992, and as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and 2000 to 2002. He was also the Mayor of Blois from 1989 to 2000...

      , former French Minister of Culture and Education
    • Jean-Pierre Chevènement
      Jean-Pierre Chevènement
      Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician. He was Minister of Defense from 1988 to 1991 and Minister of the Interior from 1997 to 2000. He was a presidential candidate in 2002 and since 2008 has been a member of the Senate....

      , former French Minister of Interior
    • Dominique Strauss-Kahn
      Dominique Strauss-Kahn
      Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...

      , former French deputy and Minister of the Economy
    • Hubert Védrine
      Hubert Védrine
      Hubert Védrine is a French Socialist politician.Diplomatic adviser of President Mitterrand, he served as secretary-general of the presidency from 1991 to 1995, then as Foreign Minister in the government of Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002.After the reelection of Jacques Chirac in May 2002, Védrine...

      , former French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002)
    • Hervé Gaymard
      Hervé Gaymard
      Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005....

      , former French Minister of Finance
    • Dominique Baudis
      Dominique Baudis
      Dominique Baudis is the French ombudsman. Formerly a journalist, politician and Mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of DL and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement....

      , French MP and former mayor of Toulouse
      Toulouse
      Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

       (in French: Dominique Baudis)
    • François Hollande
      François Hollande
      François Gérard Georges Hollande is a French politician. From 1997 to 2008, he was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. He has also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France, representing the first constituency of Corrèze, since 1997. He previously represented that seat...

      , leader of the French Socialist Party
      Socialist Party (France)
      The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

    • Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc
      Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc
      Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc is a French lawyer.From 23 April 1995 he served as head of the French Council of State as vice-president up to his retirement on 25 September 2006...

      , vice president of the Council of State
    • Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
      Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
      Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was a minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 60s, as well as France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War...

      , former Minister of Industry, French Ambassador to Algeria
    • Bernadette Chirac
      Bernadette Chirac
      Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac is a French politician and the wife of the former President Jacques Chirac....

      , former First Lady of France, Representative in Corrèze General Council, Chairwoman of Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris, and wife of former French president Jacques Chirac
      Jacques Chirac
      Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...

    • Jean-Louis Bourlanges
      Jean-Louis Bourlanges
      Jean-Louis Bourlanges was a French Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2007. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket and sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group....

      , Member of the European Parliament
      European Parliament
      The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

      , Vice Président of the UDF
    • Olivier Duhamel
      Olivier Duhamel
      Olivier Duhamel is a French university professor and politician. He was a Socialist member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.-Biography:Olivier Duhamel was born on 2 May 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France....

      , former Member of the European Parliament
      European Parliament
      The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

      , former Member of the European Convention
      European Convention
      The Convention on the Future of Europe , was a body established by the European Council in December 2001 as a result of the Laeken Declaration...

       (in French: Olivier Duhamel)
    • Xavier Musca
      Xavier Musca
      Xavier Musca is a French economist, writer, and public administrator. As of February 27, 2011, he is the Secretary-General of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Office...

      , Director of the French Treasury; Director-General of the French Treasury and Economic Development Department (2002–present)

  • Diplomats (N.B. This is a small selection given almost every diplomat since the inception of the Fifth Republic
    Fifth Republic
    There have been several Fifth Republics in the course of history, including:* French Fifth Republic * Fifth Republic of the Philippines * Fifth Republic of South Korea...

     studied at the Institute.)
    • Jean-David Levitte
      Jean-David Levitte
      Jean-David Levitte is a French diplomat, formerly the French ambassador to the United States, and currently diplomatic advisor and sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy. He has also been named head of the future National Security Council....

       (b. 1946), Ambassador of France to the USA (2002–present), French Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2000–2002)
    • Pierre de Boisdeffre, French Ambassador to Uruguay
      Uruguay
      Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

       (1981–1984), Colombia
      Colombia
      Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

       (1984–1988), and the Council of Europe
      Council of Europe
      The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...

       (1988–1991)
    • Hervé Alphand
      Hervé Alphand
      Hervé Alphand was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1956 to 1965. -Life:...

      , erstwhile French Ambassador to the United States, UN, NATO, and the OEEC
    • Georges Berthoin (Ambassador of the European Community to the UK)
    • André François-Poncet
      André François-Poncet
      André François-Poncet was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's preparations for war.François-Poncet was the son of a counselor of the Court of Appeals in...

      , former Ambassador of France to Germany
    • Gerard Errera, Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom (2002–present)
    • Claude Martin
      Claude Martin
      Major General Claude Martin was an officer in the French, and later the British, army in India. He rose to the position of Major General in the British East India Company...

      , Ambassador of France to Germany (2001–present)
    • Daniel Jouanneau
      Daniel Jouanneau
      Daniel Jouanneau in Vendôme is a graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration and former French Ambassador to Canada, after being appointed to the position in 2004 until 2008...

      , Ambassador of France to Canada (2004–present)
    • Dominique Girard, Ambassador of France to India

Academia, journalism & literature

  • Raymond Aron
    Raymond Aron
    Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...

  • Jean-Pierre Azéma
    Jean-Pierre Azéma
    -Early life:Azéma is the son of the Réunionese poet Jean-Henri Azéma. Jean-Henri was a collaborator with the black-shirted Milice during the occupation of France, and lived in exile in South America after the war.-Career:...

  • Bertrand Badie
  • Frédéric Beigbeder
    Frédéric Beigbeder
    Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer and literary critic. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français...

    , novelist
  • Nicolas Beytout
  • Derek Bok, president of Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Adda Bozeman (1908–1994), eminent American legal scholar
  • Fernand Braudel
    Fernand Braudel
    Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...

  • Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
    Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
    Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is the permanent secretary of the Académie Française and a historian specializing in Russian history....

    , specialist of Russia, member of the Académie Française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

  • Emmanuel Carrère
    Emmanuel Carrère
    Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse after his wife's pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse....

  • Louis Chauvel
    Louis Chauvel
    Louis Chauvel, born in 1967, is a French sociologist, full professor at Sciences Po , PhD Université de Lille , Habilitation Sciences Po . He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social structures, in cohort and generational change...

  • Paul Claudel
    Paul Claudel
    Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...

    , writer
  • Jean-Marie Colombani
    Jean-Marie Colombani
    Jean-Marie Colombani is a French journalist, and was the editor of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1994 until 2007.-Biography:...

    , head of Le Monde
    Le Monde
    Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

  • Michèle Cotta
    Michèle Cotta
    -Biography:Her father was the Mayor of Nice. She started her career as a journalist for Combat. She move on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud...

  • Guillaume Dustan
    Guillaume Dustan
    Guillaume Dustan , born William Baranès, was an openly gay French writer and journalist.-Biography:...

  • Cesar Garcia Perez de Leon
  • Hervé Guéneron
  • Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
    Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
    Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays, who lived and died in Paris...

  • Alain Duhamel
    Alain Duhamel
    Alain Duhamel is a prominent French journalist and political commentator.In 1963, Duhamel started working at Le Monde. He started giving talks on Europe 1 from 1974...

    , senior journalist at Le Monde
    Le Monde
    Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

    and Libération
    Libération
    Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...

  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi
    Jean-Paul Fitoussi
    Jean-Paul Fitoussi is a French economist of Sephardi Jewish descent. He currently is a Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where he has taught since 1982...

  • Matthew Fraser
    Matthew Fraser (journalist)
    Matthew William Fraser is a British-Canadian journalist, academic, and author known for his writing about the media industries...

    , Editor-in-Chief of National Post
    National Post
    The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...

     (Canada).
  • Gérald Garutti, theatre director and academic
  • Jacques Généreux
    Jacques Généreux
    Jacques Généreux is a French economist and politician. He is a reader of economics at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris....

  • Pierre Georges
    Pierre Georges
    Pierre Georges , better known as Colonel Fabien, was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Occupation of France during the Second World War....

  • Hala Gorani
    Hala Gorani
    Hala Basha-Gorani , is an American anchor/correspondent for CNN International based in the network's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. She anchors CNN Internationals 1 p.m. ET International Desk from the CNN Center...

    , CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

     journalist and anchorwoman
  • Julien Gracq
    Julien Gracq
    Julien Gracq , born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French département of Maine-et-Loire, was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their Surrealism.Gracq first studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV, where he earned his...

    , novelist
  • Stanley Hoffmann
    Stanley Hoffmann
    Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor at Harvard University.-Biography:A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at the Institut d'études politiques...

    , professor at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Christophe Jaffrelot
    Christophe Jaffrelot
    Christophe Jaffrelot is a French political scientist specialising in South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. He is graduate of the institut d’études politiques in Paris, the université de Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne and of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales...

  • Gilles Kepel
    Gilles Kepel
    Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist, specialist of the Islam and contemporary Arab world. He is Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and member of the Institut Universitaire de France....

  • Rebecca Jarvis
    Rebecca Jarvis
    Rebecca Jarvis is a financial journalist and was a finalist on Season 4 of The Apprentice. Jarvis graduated from the University of Chicago in 2003 and from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in 1999....

    , finalist on The Apprentice
    The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)
    The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC...

    , Season Four, and reporter on CNBC
  • Stanley Karnow
    Stanley Karnow
    Stanley Karnow is an American journalist and historian.After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in Asia during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de...

    , Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

    -winning author on Southeast Asia, Fellow
    Fellow
    A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...

     at the Council on Foreign Relations
    Council on Foreign Relations
    The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...

  • Grayson Kirk, eminent political scientist, President of Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     (1953–1968)
  • Marc Lambron
    Marc Lambron
    Marc Lambron is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for L'Oeil du silence.-Bibliography:* Les Menteurs* L'Impromptu de Madrid, * L'Œil du silence * 1941* Étrangers dans la nuit...

    , novelist
  • Bruno Latour
    Bruno Latour
    Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...

  • Marc Lazar
    Marc Lazar
    Marc Lazar is Professor and director of the Doctoral School at the Paris Institute of Political Studies . He is presently managing a research group on contemporary Italy with CERI . He is also President of the Advisory Group of the-External links :**...

  • Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French public intellectual, philosopher and journalist. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976.-Early life:...

    , bestselling French writer, philosopher, political campaigner
  • Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, Writer, Poet and Economist
  • Edmond Marc du Rogoff, ancien professeur, Département de Communications, Université d'Ottawa, Canada.
  • Jean Maynaud, eminent political scientist, author of myriad works on European integration
    European integration
    European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe...

  • Anne Muxel
    Anne Muxel
    Anne Muxel is a French sociologist more specialised in the study of the biographical memory. Her major sociological works concern politic socialisation, on one hand, and biographical roots of political and family behaviour, on the other hand...

  • Christine Ockrent
    Christine Ockrent
    Christine Ockrent is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.Daughter of Belgian diplomat Charles Ockrent, she was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1965. She worked for American television and...

    , one of France's most respected broadcast journalist
  • Erik Orsenna
    Érik Orsenna
    Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult , a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris , Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics...

    , member of the Académie Française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

     and former chief economic advisor to François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...

  • Pascal Perrineau
  • Roger Peyrefitte
    Roger Peyrefitte
    Roger Peyrefitte was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and gossipy non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights.-Life and work:...

    , novelist
  • Jean Picq
  • Marcel Proust
    Marcel Proust
    Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...

    , novelist
  • René Rémond
    René Rémond
    -Biography:Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques and a member of the International YCS Center of Documentation and Information in Paris, presently the International Secretariat of International Young Catholic Students The author of books on...

    , historian, member of the Académie Française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

  • Jean-Christophe Rufin
    Jean-Christophe Rufin
    Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières. He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010.-Early life:...

    , novelist
  • Robert B. Silvers
    Robert B. Silvers
    Robert Benjamin Silvers is an American editor who has served as editor of The New York Review of Books since 1963. According to a 2007 Vanity Fair article, "Jason Epstein's assessment of Silvers as 'The most brilliant editor of a magazine ever to have worked in this country' has been 'shared by...

    , co-editor of The New York Review of Books
    The New York Review of Books
    The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

  • Anne Sinclair
    Anne Sinclair
    Anne Sinclair is a French television and radio interviewer who hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, Paul Rosenberg...

  • Milana Terloeva
    Milana Terloeva
    Milana Bakhaeva , also known by the pen name Milana Terloeva, is a Chechen journalist and author of the 2006 French language bestseller Danser sur les ruines. Une jeunesse tchétchène Milana Bakhaeva (born December 30, 1979 in Orekhovo, Chechnya), also known by the pen name Milana Terloeva, is a...

    , Chechen
    Chechen people
    Chechens constitute the largest native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus region. They refer to themselves as Noxçi . Also known as Sadiks , Gargareans, Malkhs...

     journalist and bestselling author
  • Paul Morand
    Paul Morand
    Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist.He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies...

  • David Pujadas
    David Pujadas
    David Pujadas was born in Barcelona , Spain, on December 2, 1964, to a Spanish father and a French mother.A former news broadcaster for TF1's LCI, he now is an anchorman on France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France...

  • Russ Rymer
    Russ Rymer
    Russ Rymer is an author and freelance journalist with articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and others. His first book, Genie, a Scientific Tragedy, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and awarded with the Whiting Writers' Award...

    , Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones magazine
  • Alain-Gérard Slama
  • Maurice Vaïsse
    Maurice Vaïsse
    Maurice Vaïsse is a French historian specialised in international relations and Defence.-Biography:Vaïsse graduated with a History Agrégation in 1967. He has been a professor of contemporary history at Reims university, and is now a professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, where he...

  • Georges Vedel
    Georges Vedel
    Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.-Biography:Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies...

  • Florian Zeller
    Florian Zeller
    Florian Zeller is a French novelist and playwright. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, including English. He won the Prix Interallié in 2004 for his novel "Fascination of Evil" ....

    , novelist, Prix Interallié
    Prix Interallié
    The prix Interallié , also known simply as l’Interallié, is an annual French literary award, awarded for a novel written by a journalist.- History :...

     2004

Business & finance

  • Daniel Bouton, former CEO of Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

  • Frédéric Oudéa
    Frederic Oudea
    Frederic Oudéa is Chief Executive Officer to Société Générale.-Career:After his education at École nationale d'administration and Ecole Polytechnique in France, Oudea worked in the economic sector of the French civil service from 1987 until 1995...

    , CEO of Société Générale
    Société Générale
    Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...

  • Jean-Claude Trichet
    Jean-Claude Trichet
    Jean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who was the president of the European Central Bank, a position he held from 2003 to 2011. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements...

    , President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     of the European Central Bank
    European Central Bank
    The European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt,...

     (2003–present), former Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of the Bank of France (1993–2003)
  • Jacques de Larosière
    Jacques de Larosière
    Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu is a French civil servant. He is the Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the French Treasury and Advisor to BNP Paribas, became President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in September 1993 in the wake of the scandals that led...

    , former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    Founded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their...

  • Jean-Pierre Jouyet
    Jean-Pierre Jouyet
    -Biography:Jean-Pierre Jouyet, was born on 13 February 1954 at Montreuil-sous-Bois in the suburbs of Paris, and is a top civil servant who has also held political positions....

    , Director-General of the French Treasury and Economic Development Department
  • Wilfried Baumgartner, Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of the Bank of France
  • David René de Rothschild
    David René de Rothschild
    David René James de Rothschild is a banker and a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He is the chairman of Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, a Swiss holding company...

    , Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons
    N M Rothschild & Sons
    N M Rothschild & Sons is a private investment banking company, belonging to the Rothschild family...

  • Louis Schweitzer
    Louis Schweitzer (CEO)
    Louis Schweitzer was the previous Chairman of Renault, first taking that post on 27 May 1992 in succession to Raymond Lévy, and he was also CEO from 1992 to 2005. He is in addition Chairman of AstraZeneca where he was appointed as a Director 11 March 2004...

    , former CEO of Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

  • Michel Bon
    Michel Bon
    Michel Bon is a French businessman and politician born in 1943. He is a graduate of the ESSEC, of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, of the École nationale d'administration and of Stanford Business School....

    , former CEO of France Telecom
    France Télécom
    France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...

     and current CEO of Carrefour
  • Jean-Cyril Spinetta
    Jean-Cyril Spinetta
    Jean-Cyril Spinetta is a French businessman currently Chairman of the airline Air France and the holding company Air France-KLM Group and of the nuclear company AREVA.-Early life and formation:...

    , CEO of Air France
    Air France
    Air France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...

  • Serge Weinberg
    Serge Weinberg
    Serge Weinberg is Chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners, an investment firm.He was the founder and chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners, an investment firm....

    , CEO of Pinault Printemps Redoute (PPR), one of the world's largest luxury goods groups
  • Agnès Touraine, CEO of Act III Consultants, former CEO of Vivendi Universal Publishing
  • Gérard Mestrallet
    Gérard Mestrallet
    Gérard Mestrallet is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of GDF Suez.-Biography:Gérard Mestrallet was born on 1 April 1949. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration....

    , CEO of Suez
    Suez
    Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez , near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate. It has three harbors, Adabya, Ain Sokhna and Port Tawfiq, and extensive port facilities...

  • Anne-Claire Tattinger, CEO of Société du Louvre, major luxury hotel and luxury goods company
  • Thierry Moulonguet, CFO and Executive VP of Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

  • François Roussely, CEO of Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse
    The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

     France, and Vice-Chairman of Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse
    The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

     Europe
  • Jean-Hugues Bittner, CFO of Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

     Europe
  • Marc Vincent, Director of Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse
    The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

    , former Managing Director at Citigroup
    Citigroup
    Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

     France
  • Gilles Arnaud CFO of Xitec Software
  • Michel Gardel, CEO of Toyota France
  • Christian Mandl, CEO and Founder of SkyEurope Airlines
  • Gerardo Braggiotti, CEO of Lazard LLC, Italy
  • Henri Giscard d'Estaing
    Henri Giscard d'Estaing
    Henri Giscard d'Estaing is a French business figure and son of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.-Biography:...

    , CEO of Club Med
    Club Med
    Club Méditerranée , commonly known as Club Med, is a French corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in exotic locations. It is considered the original all-inclusive resort.-Foundation:...

  • Elizabeth Fleuriot, CEO of Kellogg's France
  • Jean Marc Espalioux, CEO of Accor
    Accor
    Accor is Europe's leading hotel group , part of the CAC 40 index , and operates in over 90 countries. Headquartered in Courcouronnes, Essonne, France, near Évry, France, the group owns, operates and franchises 4,229 hotels ranging from economy to luxury on five continents .Previously, the group...

    , European leader and one of the world's largest hotel groups
  • Laurence Parisot
    Laurence Parisot
    Laurence Parisot is the head of the French MEDEF employers' union since the 5 July 2005...

    , CEO of IFOP Group, CEO of Optimum
  • Bertrand Jacquillat, CEO and Founder of Associés en Finances
  • Philippe Camus
    Philippe Camus (businessman)
    Philippe Camus is the current non-executive Chairman of the Board of Alcatel-Lucent. He is a French national.-Biography:Philippe Camus was born in 1948. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Normale Supérieure....

    , CEO of European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company
  • Alain Carron, CFO of Standard & Poor's
    Standard & Poor's
    Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian...

     in Paris
  • Romain Durand, CEO of Scor
    Scór
    Scór is a division of the Gaelic Athletic Association charged with promotion of cultural activities, and the name of a series of annual competitions in such activities.Rule 4 of the GAA's official guide reads:...

     VIE
  • Ray Ortali, CEO of Prime Technologies
  • Ernest-Antoine Seillière
    Ernest-Antoine Seillière
    Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde, born 20 December 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is an entrepreneur and the heir to the Wendel empire ....

    , CEO of Medef
  • Patrice Allain-Dupre, CEO of ESL
    ESL
    ESL is a common abbreviation for English as a Second Language, see English language learning and teaching.ESL may also refer to:-Companies:...

     Network
  • Matthieu Delporte, CFO Baracoda Wireless Solutions
  • Guillaume Pepy
    Guillaume Pépy
    Guillaume Pepy is a high-ranking French civil servant and is, since February 2008, president of SNCF, the French national rail authority. He is also Chairman of Eurostar and Deputy-Chairman of the Keolis Group.The President of the Republic appointed him to run the state-owned enterprise on 27...

    , CEO of Voyages-sncf.com
    Voyages-sncf.com
    Voyages-sncf.com, founded in June 2000, is an Internet travel agency website, subsidiary of the French SNCF and Expedia. It is the first French Electronic commerce website in volume...

    , General Manager of SNCF.com
  • Frédéric Jolly, Chairman of Russell
    Russell Investment Group
    Russell Investments is a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Its previous headquarters were located in Tacoma, Washington, south of Seattle. The firm is a Turnkey Asset Management Program and provides investment products and services to individuals...

     for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
  • Gerard Hermet, CEO of GFK Marketing
  • Pierre-Yves Gerbeau
    Pierre-Yves Gerbeau
    Pierre-Yves Gerbeau is a French businessman, based in the United Kingdom.-Early life:Gerbeau was born into an affluent Parisian family, where his parents ran an office supply company...

    , CEO of X-Leisure
  • Jean-Pierre Arbon, CEO of 00h00.com, the world's first online publishing house
  • Richard Descoings
    Richard Descoings
    Richard Descoings is a French civil servant. He is currently serving as the Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies , and as such as the Chief Administrator of the National Foundation of Political Science...

    , CEO and Director of Sciences Po
  • Fabrice Moulle Berteau, CEO of Sycamore Gestion privee
  • Frédéric Lemoine
    Frédéric Lemoine
    Frédéric Lemoine is a French businessman, Chairman of Wendel’s Executive Board since April 2009, after being Member of the Supervisory Board of Wendel from June 2008 to April 2009...

    , former CEO of Groupe Capgemini
  • Alex Vieux
    Alex Vieux
    Alex Serge Vieux is chairman, CEO and founder of technology conference sponsor, DASAR. He's also publisher of Red Herring magazine.Currently, Vieux serves on the boards of several international public and private companies, including BVRP, CommerceOne, and Qualys.In 1997, Vieux was named president...

    , CEO and founder of technology conference sponsor, DASAR
    Dasar
    Dasar is an acronym for Darkness Amplification by Stimulated Absorption of Radiation.It is a little-used expression describing the anomalous interstellar formaldehyde absorption discovered by Palmer et al. in 1969....

    , and publisher of Red Herring
    Red Herring (magazine)
    Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

     magazine.
  • Benoit d’Angelin, Managing Director at Centaurus Capital Limited
  • Remi de Fouchier, Senior Vice President of Gemplus, the world leader in smart cards
  • Javier Santiso
    Javier Santiso
    Javier Santiso, who holds both Spanish and French nationalities, is a leading economist on emerging markets who has authored several books and has been awarded by the World Economic Forum as Young Global Leader in 2009. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Council...

    , Economist at OECD, former Chief Economist for Latin America at BBVA
  • Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
    Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
    Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon is a French businesswoman and feminist. She is currently the CEO of the auFeminin.com group, Europe's leading Internet portal dedicated to women's content. Le Figaro went further, calling her company number one in that category...

    , marketing executive and CEO of the aufeminin.com group
  • Nicolas Calemard, Director of Human Resources, LVMH
    LVMH
    LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

  • Stephane Rambosson, Partner, Veni Partners

Culture & sports

  • Christian Dior
    Christian Dior
    Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...

    , haute couture and fashion designer
  • Pierre de Coubertin
    Pierre de Coubertin
    Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games...

    , founder of the modern Olympic Games
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

  • Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...

    , internationally acclaimed French movie star
  • Léo Ferré
    Léo Ferré
    Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...

    , singer and songwriter
  • Anne Roumanoff
    Anne Roumanoff
    Anne Roumanoff is a French humorist and actress.-Career as humorist:At age 12, she attended her first theater school...

    , comedian (in French: Anne Roumanoff)
  • Kimon Evan Marengo
    Kimon Evan Marengo
    Kimon Evan Marengo , better known for his pen name Kem, was an Egyptian-born British cartoonist in Zifta, Egypt. He was the son of Evangelos Marangos, a Greek cotton merchant....

    , major British cartoonist
  • Camille Dalmais, aka Camille, singer and songwriter
  • Thierry Gilardi
    Thierry Gilardi
    Thierry Gilardi was a French football commentator.-Biography:Gilardi was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines of Italian stock. He was an avid reader of the French sports newspaper L'Équipe from the age of six. He had always been passionate about sport, especially Rugby Union...

    , football and rugby commentator.
  • Rafaela Reyes - Chaboussou, academy award winning actress.
  • Pierre Christin
    Pierre Christin
    - Biography :Christin was born at Saint-Mandé in 1938.After graduating from the Sorbonne, Christin pursued graduate studies in political science at SciencesPo and became a professor of French literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His first comics story, Le Rhum du Punch, illustrated...

    , French comics creator and writer (Valérian and Laureline)
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