Sciences Po Alumni UK

The first SciencesPo Alumni UK Charity Gala will take place tomorrow!

You can download the brochure of the event which gives the agenda of tomorrow’s dinner, the aim of the Charity Trust, and presents our sponsors and supporters : Gide Loyrette Nouel, International SOS, Media Tree, Veni Partners, and Apple.

*** Press Release ***

London – 22 September 2008

The UK alumni of Sciences Po – the leading French university – have established a charity to fund scholarships for exceptional French and UK students. Established in Paris in 1872 to modernise the training of politicians, Sciences Po is “the grandest of the grandes écoles which, since Napoleon, have provided France with its political, administrative and business elite”. Alumni include 28 past and present French Prime ministers and Presidents (François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy amongst them) and 14 CEOs of France’s largest 40 companies.

The charity – named the Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust – will be officially launched on 25th September 2008 with a Gala Dinner at the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall. The Gala Dinner will be under the patronage of French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, and co-chaired by Sciences Po Director Richard Descoings and the Director of the London School of Economics, Sir Howard Davies. The Gala Dinner will bring together French and British representatives of business and academia, Sciences Po alumni and influential members of the 300,000-strong French community in London.

All proceeds will go towards the Sciences Po UK Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship Fund will enable Sciences Po students to study in the UK and UK-based students to study at Sciences Po. Sciences Po already has exchange programmes with LSE and Oxford in the UK, and Harvard, Colombia, Princeton and Berkeley in the US. The long term aim is to reinforce Sciences Po’s longstanding cosmopolitan tradition and its commitment to promote social mobility. Sciences Po is the most international of all French universities, with one third of its 6,700 students coming from overseas.

The event will be sponsored by the London and Paris offices of Gide Loyrette Nouel (a French-origin global law firm), International SOS (a world leading provider of medical assistance, international healthcare and security services), Media Tree (a global financial roadshow and conference expert) and Veni Partners (a Franco-British specialist executive search firm focused on financial services).

Cécile d’Angelin, Trustee of Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust said:

“We are delighted to launch The Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust today which is primarily designed to help fund Sciences Po students who wish to come and study on an exchange programme to the UK. The idea originated over a year ago when the Sciences Po UK Alumni team discussed ways of extending the work done by Richard Descoings and his team in Paris to transform Sciences Po into a world class academic institution competing with the very best universities in the world to attract the best students. We hope that this initiative will further strengthen the links between Sciences Po Paris and the UK academia and encourage more students to visit both our great academic institutions.”
For further information, please contact:

Stéphane Rambosson, President of Sciences Po Alumni UK
Tel: 07770 49 69 26
Email: srambosson@venipartners.com

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The SciencesPo Alumni UK Charity Gala Dinner held at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mal, London, on Thursday 25 September 2008, is now full and registration has closed.

We would like to thank all of those who have registered for the event and our sponsors:

The SciencesPo Alumni UK express their gratitude to Gide Loyrette Nouel which will participate to the launch of the SciencesPo Alumni UK Charity Trust on the 25th of September 2008.

Gide Loyrette Nouel is a leading international law firm with 21 offices – soon to be 24 offices – throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America and more than 700 lawyers.

To learn more about Gide Loyrette Nouel, visit: www.gide.com