We are delighted to hold a Dinner Debate with SciencesPo Professor Olivier Duhamel in London on Friday 6 February 2009.
This Dinner Debate will take place at the restaurant Le Colombier.
To book your place, please email SRambosson@venipartners.com.
See books of Olivier Duhamel on Amazon.
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Is there a need to present our monthly event SciencesPo Wednesday again? The next one will take place, as usual, at the Walkers of Whitehall in London, next to Trafalguar Square, on the 4th of February. We have the street bar of the Walkers booked for this event.
Last month, we managed to gather a very large and diversied crowd of senior and younger alumni, mingling with SciencesPo/LSE students. We hope to be as succesful in February. Make sure you clear some time to come!
To make sure you don’t miss SciencesPo Wednesday updates, you can join our group on Facebook.
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This week the SciencesPo Alumni UK held a very succesful conference with Professor Marie Mendras, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University UK Alumni Chapter and the French Institute in the UK.
A very large crowd came to listen Professor Marie Mendras who presented and discussed her fascinating new book about Russia, Russie, l’envers du pouvoir.
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| Conference with Prof. Marie Mendras |
Thank you to all of those who contributed to this event.
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In her new book, Russie, l’envers du pouvoir, Marie Mendras provides an original analysis of Russia’s political system. Contrary to conventional thinking, the state in Russia is weak and ineffective. Vladimir Putin has deconstructed and weakened most public institutions, and has consolidated a personalised system of rule. Political and economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few groups, and elites must be loyal to the leadership. Russian society accepts authoritarian methods because living standards have markedly improved, but the current economic crisis may put this system of rule under considerable pressure.
Marie Mendras is Professor of Government at LSE and Sciences Po. She was educated at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins – SAIS, and Harvard University. In partnership with Sciences Po Alumni UK and Johns Hopkins University UK Alumni Chapter.
Thu 22 Jan | 7.30pm | £3, conc. £2 | in English | French Institute in London, 17 Queensberry Place, LONDON SW7 2DT
To book your place:
By phone: 0207 073 1350
By email: box.office(at)ambafrance.org.uk
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Thank you to all of those who came to the first SciencesPo Wednesday of 2009. It was a great evening where an amazing number of alumni and students turned up. At the peak of the evening, we counted up to 80 people in the Pub. The street bar of the Walkers of Whitehall was booked exclusively for us which allowed people to mingle easely all night.
We have a few pictures of this event. As you will notice, we are not such good photographers at the Sciences Po Alumni UK and we welcome any good photographer for future events:
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| SciencesPo Wednesday Jan 09 – London |
To make sure you will not miss the next SciencesPo Wednesday, you can join our group on Facebook.
Next SciencesPo Wednesday: 4 February, Walkers of Whitehall, London.
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We have a nice article about our first Charity Gala Dinner held in 2008 in the latest issue of the Sciences Po Alumni magazine Rue St Guillaume.
You can download the article by clicking here.
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The latest issue of the Sciences Po alumni magazine Rue St Guillaume has an article about Assia de Juniac who passed away last year. Assia was Honorary Chairwoman of Sciences Po Alumni UK and an inspiration for many of us.
To download the article, please click here (PDF).
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The first SciencesPo Wednesday of 2009 will take place this week on 14 January at the Walkers of Whitehall, in London.
Make sure you come and join us for a drink (or two). This is a friendly and relaxed opportunity to meet SciencesPo/LSE students and SciencesPo Alumni.
Location is very central, near Trafalguar Square:
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
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With the start of the New Year, it is also time to start a new category for this blog: Alumni UK in the News.
We want to try to keep track of Sciences Po Alumni UK who appear in the news. This initiative intends to publicize Sciences Po network of people in the UK.
Today we start with Pascal Cagni, Apple’s European head, Sciences Po 1984, who was mentioned in a Financial Times’ article about Apple’s developmet in Europe:
Published: January 7 2009
Perhaps it was the absence of his boss Steve Jobs that prompted Pascal Cagni, Apple’s European head, to give this year’s Macworld conference in San Francisco a miss.
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Click here to read full article online, or click here to download a copy of it.
You may here or find stories about Sciences Po Alumni based in the UK: please, feel free to email us the story and we will publish it: julien.artero@gmail.com
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You may have noticed that we recently added a new button at the top of the sidebar on the right: 
It is now possible to make an online donation to the SciencesPo Alumni UK.
Why make a donation?
As you may know, we rely on UK Alumni memberships to finance part of our annual activities and events.
We also ask sponsors to support us when organising extraordinary events such as our first Charity Gala last year.
But we organise an increasing number of social activities, such as our dinner-debates or the SciencesPo Wednesday, which require more and more funding.
Our monthly SciencesPo Wednesday is a good example as this event aims at enabling exchanges and networking between Sciences Po – LSE students and Alumni based in the UK. We try as much as we can to cover the cost of this event for students who can’t always afford it.
We are also aware our now famous dinner-debates can be expensive for students or young professionals who would like to attend. A little bit of funding could help them to attend more often.
Running this website (which is based on as many free software and online services as possible) has a cost – moderate – but still a cost to cover.
All in all, why would you make a donation?
If you have any questions and/or suggestions, please contact us or leave a comment below.
Thank you for your support.
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