The Sciences Po Alumni UK are delighted to be hosting in association with the French popular movement UMP, Rachida Dati, MEP and former French Minister of Justice, and an icon of sarkorzysm, on 18th February at 7pm at the Sofitel in Westminster, London.
To book your place, please register online.
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We apologise – this event has been cancelled.
Former French Human Rights Minister Nicole Guedj, leading humanitarian relief figure, president of the Casques Rouges foundation, will speak next Thursday 4 February, at 6.30pm at the French Institute in London.
To book your place, please click here.
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A report by Chic Londres on the recent Sciences-Po Dinner at the French Ambassador’s house with former Prime Minister Alain Juppé:
Chic-Londres was a guest at the beautiful dinner organised on January 13 by Sciences-Po Alumni UK Trust at the Résidence de France, with former French Prime minister Alain Juppé, French ambassador to the UK Maurice Gourdault-Montagne and Sciences-Po director Richard Descoings.
The Who’s Who of Frog Valley met at the French ambassador’s beautiful house in Kensington Gardens for the party organised by Sciences-Po Alumni UK Trust for its main donors on January 13. Most of the seventy guests were Sciences-Po alumni, and included Arnaud Vaissié, CEO of International SOS, Antoine de Navacelle, the founder of the Modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin’s great grand nephew, Charles de Croisset, ex-CEO of the CCF bank, Juliette Streichenberger, general manager of Prada UK, Benoit d’Angelin, founder of hedge fund Ondra Partners, Bernard Gault, founder of private bank Perella Weinberg and Bertrand Coste, founder of private equity fund Clerville, as well as the French ambassador and guest of honour Alain Juppé.
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The Sciences Po Alumni UK are pleased to introduce L’Institut Montaigne, the leading French think tank chaired by Claude Bébéar, to London.
We are hosting its CEO, François Rachline, also Professor of economics at Sciences Po and vice president of its Executive Board, for a dinner-debate in the private room of a London restaurant on Thursday 28 January at 7.45pm.
To book your place, please contact Stéphane Rambosson: SRambosson@venipartners.com
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An interesting story about the pioneering scheme run by Richard Descoings to promote social diversity at Sciences Po.
France’s famed meritocracy endangered by grandes écoles
By Ben Hall in Paris
Published: January 9 2010 02:00 | Last updated: January 9 2010 02:00France’s claim to be a meritocracy is based on its revolutionary heritage. However, for Anyss Arbib, a 21-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent who grew up in the tough Paris suburb of Bondy, the claim looks clearly wrong these days.
“It’s a myth, of course,” he says. “We should stop being hypocritical and talking about meritocracy. There will be no meritocracy until there is equality of opportunity.”
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A New EU ‘President’ and ‘High Representative for Foreign Affairs’
AFTER THE LISBON TREATY, WHO LEADS EUROPE?
Lecture by Dr Florence DELOCHE-GAUDEZ
With the participation of Jon HENLEY, The Guardian
From December 2009, Herman van Rompuy is the President of the European Council, and Baroness Catherine Ashton, the new High Representative for Foreign Affairs. Why were these posts created by the Treaty of Lisbon and these two persons selected? Will it give the EU a greater visibility in Europe and on the international scene? What does it tell us about European integration? Florence Deloche-Gaudez will examine these recent appointments with a view to explaining the compromises that led to the Lisbon Treaty and the choice of these two officials. The conference will offer the opportunity to address wider issues, such as the French and English views of European integration, the division of power in the European Union and the continuing distinctiveness of this Union.
Dr Florence Deloche-Gaudez is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences Po Paris and is currently a Visiting Fellow at LSE. She co-heads the Observatory of European Institutions, whose aim is to give a new insight into EU institutional analysis via an innovative database on EU decision-making. She edited its first two publications: Elargissement – Comment l’Europe s’adapte? and What is Europe up to? (Presses de Sciences Po, 2006, 2009). In the past, she attended all sessions of the European Convention, which drafted the constitutional Treaty, and published La Constitution européenne : que faut-il savoir ? (Presses de Sciences Po, 2005).
21 January 2010, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
French Institute in the UK
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
RSVP: nicole.bea@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Click here to download a PDF version of this invitation.
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Our now famous Sciences Po Alumni UK event - Sciences Po Wednesday – is back!
Our first Sciences Po Wednesday will take place on 10 February at the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall in London.
If you wish to attend or would like more information, you can join our group on Facebook or Linkedin where more details will be available. You can also email Stéphanie Morrisset (stephaniemorisset@hotmail.fr) or Julien Artero (julien.artero@gmail.com).
(Picture: Sylvain Deleu)
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Dear friends and fellow members,
2009 has been a rich year for us. Some of the highlights include:
There is no reason why 2010 should not be an even richer one for us, starting with:
We will publish further details of these events at the beginning of January; in the meantime, please let us know which you intend to attend.
We hope that 2010 will be a rich year for everyone; needless to say that it will be an even richer one for us if you subscribe to Sciences Po Alumni UK; in order to do so, please visit our membership section and/or contact our treasurer Stefan Lavau (stefan.lavau@hsbcib.com).
In the run-up to the London Olympics, may we leave you with words from a famous Sciences Po alumn Baron Pierre de Coubertin: “the important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential is not to have won but to have fought well”; may you have both contests and victories in 2010, even though for some the future may not be what it used to be.
Thank you for your support. Warmest Wishes from Sciences Po Alumni UK for 2010.
Amicalement votre,
Stéphane Rambosson
President
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Sciences po Alumni UK and the French Institute in London present:
in conversation with Agnès Catherine Poirier
Tuesday 24 November,
at the French Institute in London
Un Roman français (Grasset, 2009) is a book about memory and childhood revisited, but also about the transition towards manhood, the metamorphosis of an immature boy into a pacified adult.
Born in Neuilly sur Seine, columnist for Lire magazine, and presenter of Cercle on Canal Plus, Frédéric Beigbeder is the author of Vacances dans le coma, L’Amour dure trois ans, (Holiday in a coma and Love lasts three years), 99 francs (£9.99), Windows on the world (Windows on the world), L’Egoïste romantique and Au Secours pardon.
French born Agnès Catherine Poirier moved to London in 1995. She is an independent journalist. As an author she published Les Nouveaux Anglais, Touché! A French woman’s take on the English and Le Modèle anglais: une illusion française.
6.30pm | £5, conc £3 | 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT | Map
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The Financial Times published an article on the 2009 Sciences Po Alumni UK Gala:
Londres Calling
By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono
Published: September 26 2009 03:00 | Last updated: September 26 2009 03:00
The French invaded the House of Commons this week, as Baron David de Rothschild led the London-based alumni of Sciences Po, the Paris grande école, into the members’ dining room.
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Baron David de Rothschild – Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Gala - 23 September 2009 – House of Commons – London
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