We are proud to be hosting on 23rd April at 6.30pm at the French Institute in London together with the alumni associations of Columbia, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Tufts a Panel Discussion on The First Hundred Days of the Obama Presidency.
François Bujon de l’Estang (SP 61), Chairman of Citi France, former Ambassador to the US and member of Sciences Po’s development committee, will be among the panellists.
Please book now as per below (How to Book your place); we hope to have many of us at the event.
Make sure you save the date, the next SciencesPo Wednesday will take place on the 22nd of April and - as usual – it will be at the Walkers of Whitehall in London, next to Trafalgar Square.
Sciences Po Alumni UK played a key role in the organisation of a seminar of l‘Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Entreprise (IHEE) in London in February 2009. IHEE, chaired by Michel Pebereau (Chair of Sciences Po Council), and whose Director is Laurence Vile (Sciences Po alumn), was created in 2000; sponsored by 26 corporates which are founding members, its main mission is to educate IHEE “auditors” whom are rising professionals from the public sector with rising executives from the private sector. Its programme is based on 9 seminars on the theme of “Corporates and Globalisation“, which include on the ground meetings and visits, as was the case in London around the theme of “Financial Markets and Corporate Financing“.
The following sessions were organised in co-ordination with Sciences Po Alumni UK, with all speakers Sciences Po alumni:
“How corporates finance themselves“, Arnaud Vaissie, International SOS (Chairman and CEO)
”Role and organisation of hedge funds”, Benoit Helly d’Angelin, Centaurus Capital (CEO)
“Development of global markets”, theme of dinner with guest speaker Samir Assaf, HSBC (Global Head of Markets), and presence of Laurent Bigorgne, Directeur Adjoint of Sciences Po seconded to LSE
“Private equity and corporate financing”, Chris Masek, IK (Partner) and Nicolas Cattelain, KKR (Director)
“Is the investment banker a disappearing “breed”?”, Stephane Rambosson, Veni Partners (Partner)
“Emergence of African financing”, Olivier Bournat, Sumitomo Group
Many thanks to all speakers, and all who assisted in the organisation, notably Stefan Lavau, treasurer of Sciences Po Alumni UK, as well as Georges-Emmanuel Rosmade, IHEE auditor and responsible for Sciences Po’s master of finance programme.
Panel Discussion on The First Hundred Days of the Obama Presidency | 23 April 2009 | French Institute
The election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency last November engaged unprecedented interest across the globe. With a challenging agenda before them, Obama and his team have hit the ground running – but will they be able to keep up the momentum and truly achieve any or all of their ambitious objectives?
This panel discussion, with a distinguished group of academics and commentators from both sides of the Atlantic, will focus on what has been achieved in Obama’s first 100 days and will assess the probability of success for his policies related to resolving the global financial crisis, finding solutions to various foreign policy challenges, and the myriad of social and environmental issues, over the next four years.
This panel discussion is hosted by the French Institute together with the alumni organisations of Columbia University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Sciences Po. Paris and Tufts University.
Details about the panel and booking will be released soon.
We would like to thank Clara Gaymard, (SP 81), General Electric’s Chief Executive for North West Europe, for this enlighting dinner-debate on Thursday 5 March. This was a an unvaluable opportunity to exchange with a leading business figure in a relaxed and unformal athmosphere. Thank you also to those who took part in this dinner, and we hope they enjoyed their evening.
One of our most prominent Sciences Po alumni, Simone Veil (SP 48), a key French and European political figure, will be making a lecture at the French Institute in London, South Kensington, on Wednesday 11 March at 7pm. This will be a prime event which, we hope, many of SciencesPo Alumni will attend.
Simone Veil, A Life
‘This is a riveting memoir by an extraordinary woman. With exemplary forthrightness, Simone Veil charts her trajectory from her pre-war childhood in a secular Jewish family in Nice, through the misery of her year in Auschwitz and into the cut and thrust of French and European politics. This document of a life is also a compact history of post-war France.‘
(Lisa Appignanesi)
In December 2007, French airport bookshops sported tall piles of paperbacks from whose severe cover emerged a soft-focus photo of a striking young woman, caught in half profile. Simone Veil had published her long-awaited memoirs. Veil – Auschwitz survivor, Minister for Health (1974–9), author of the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France, first woman President of the European Parliament (1979–82), and Minister of State for Social Affairs (1993–1995) – is one of France’s most popular personalities, and the newest member of the French Academy. Une Vie sold more than a million copies in France, and has now been translated into English (Haus Publishing, 2009, translated by Tamsin Black). For the translation’s official launch, Simone Veil will be in conversation with BBC journalist Madeleine Holt.
Wed 11 March | 7pm | £8, conc. £6 | in English To book your place: 0207 073 1350
SciencesPo Alumni UK is delighted to receive for its next dinner-debate, Clara Gaymard (SP 81), General Electric’s Chief Executive for North West Europe, on Thursday 5 March. Theme chosen is:
“How companies create opportunity from adversity?”
A few words on Clara and GE:Clara joined GE as National Executive for France in 2006, presiding over a significant period of growth in France, which has seen revenues increase by 24% in 2007 to $6.8 billion. In 2008 she also assumed responsibility for Benelux as well as the UK and Ireland. GE currently employs more than 38,000 people across the North Western European region, with combined revenues across UK, Ireland, France and Benelux of $20.6 billion. Prior to joining GE, Clara had a successful career as a Civil Servant, firstly as an Economic and Commercial Advisor at the French Trade Office in Cairo from 1991-93, followed by seven years as Deputy Director at the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the French Ministry of Finance. In 1999 she became head of the Small and Mid-Cap Business Division before spending three years as Special Representative at Invest in France where she was responsible for overseeing the organisation’s international direct inward investment strategy. A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and of the French National School of Administration (ENA), Clara Gaymard is a published author and was recently voted number 36 in Fortune Magazine’s ‘Global Power 50’ listing of Europe’s most influential business women. She is married and has nine children.
If you would like to attend, please email: SRambosson@venipartners.com.
Make sure you join us tomorrow for a drink at monthly gathering, Sciences Po Wednesday, from 7.00pm. This event – on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 7pm – is devised simply to give the opportunity to Sciences Po alumni/friends and UK-based students to meet up and catch up.
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