British Ambassador to France, at Sciences Po on 30 November 2010

November 23, 2010

As the race to Christmas is now well and truly on, Sciences Po Alumni UK is very pleased to be associated to the visit of His Excellency Sir Peter Westmacott, British Ambassador to France, at Sciences Po on 30 November 2010 in Paris.

Hosted and organised by Sciences Po Alumni, this event will take the form of a conference-debate and will be followed by an informal cocktail reception.

Held in the Amphithéâtre Caquot (Sciences Po, 28 Rue des Saints Pères, Paris VIIè), the event will start at 7:15pm (CET). If you are interested in registering or for further details, please do let us know or email vacmanifs@sciences-po.asso.fr.

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Nuclear Iran: threat or distraction? – Event – 27 May

April 22, 2010

Sciences Po Alumni UK will be co-hosting on 27 May with the alumni associations of Columbia, Georgetown and Tufts:

Nuclear Iran: threat or distraction?

Speakers:

Admiral du Puy-Montbrun, Military Counsellor to the President of Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, a part of the EADS Group

Dana Allin, Editor of Survival and Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Jon Leyne, Tehran Correspondent of the BBC

Nazenin Ansari, Diplomatic Editor of Kayhan (London) and Vice President of the Foreign Press Association

From 18.30 at the Charing Cross Hotel, The Strand. Download invitation.

To book your place, please contact Gabriel Pierard gabriel.pierard@gmail.com.

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Rachida Dati visit to London – Le Figaro

February 21, 2010

The Sciences Po Alumni UK in association with the French popular movement UMP hosted former French Justice Minister and EU MP Rachida Dati in London on 18 February.

This week-end French newspaper Le Figaro gives an account of this encounter with the French community in London. Click here to read article online.

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London Literary Death Match – 24th February

February 20, 2010

Sciences Po Alumna Emma Archer, also General Secretary of Sciences Po Almuni USA,  is bringing the next Literary Death Match to London on 24th February. Now living between New York City and Paris, Emma is an executive producer for LDM International, overseeing Literary Death Match events in Beijing, London, Paris, Dublin and soon-to-be-announced international locations.

The Literary Death Match and Opium Magazine are teaming with the fantastic/groundbreaking new YARN Festival to bring together a gob-smacking lineup of talent, including all-star judges Tim Wells (poet extraordinare), TV presenter/actress writer Emma Kennedy, singer/artist/writer Molly Carroll, and a fearsome foursome of literary combatants: The Book Club Boutique‘s Salena Godden, Richard Milward (author of Ten Storey Love Song), Nasty Little Press representative John Osborne, and Sophie Lewis (Litro Magazine).

All of it co-hosted by Opium’s Todd Zuniga & Pen Pusher’s Anna Goodall.

When: Doors at 7, show at 8:05 (sharp), afterparty: 9:45 and beyond.
Where: The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RH (map)
Cost: £4 preorder; £5 with valid student ID; £6 at the door.
This event is free for Literary Death Match subscribers!

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Reforming the Financial System: What Went Wrong And How To (And How Not To) Fix It

February 16, 2010

A Chicago lecture on “Reforming the Financial System: What Went Wrong And How To (And How Not To) Fix It” by Randall Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, at Chicago Booth (Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall St, London EC2V 5HA) will be held on 22 February.

Programme: 7:00pm Registration; 7:30pm Lecture; 8:30pm Networking Reception.

Kroszner will give his perspective from his years as a Fed governor (2006 -09) on the origins of the crisis and his assessment of the key reform proposals, some of which could have the unintended consequence of making the system more fragile.

To register: click here.


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CANCELLED – An evening with Nicole Guedj – former French Human Rights Minister

January 31, 2010

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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Who Leads Europe? – Conference 21 January 2010

January 6, 2010

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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2010 Greetings – Sciences Po Alumni UK

January 5, 2010

Dear friends and fellow members,

2009 has been a rich year for us. Some of the highlights include:

  • Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Gala at the House of Commons, under the patronage of alumnus H.E. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, sponsored by MP and former minister Denis MacShane, hosting alumnus Baron David de Rothschild, in the presence of Richard Descoings, where Assia de Juniac and Roger Seydoux scholarships were awarded.
  • Launch of the Sciences Po UK Board, with 20 leading UK seniors led by Charles de Croisset, and private dinner with former foreign minister and alumnus Hubert Védrine.

There is no reason why 2010 should not be an even richer one for us, starting with:

  • An invitation accepted by former prime minister Alain Juppé, who will be hosted at a private donor dinner, who will speak also at a public venue at 6pm on 13 January.
  • A lecture at the Institute by Dr Florence Deloche-Gaudez, Sciences Po –LSE, with the participation of John Henley, The Guardian, on “A New EU ‘President’ and ‘High Representative for Foreign Affairs’- after the Lisbon Treaty, who leads Europe”? at 6pm on 21 January.
  • A dinner-debate with François Rachline, managing director of think-tank l’Institut Montaigne and professor at Sciences Po, on28 January; also, we will be associated to an event hosting Claude Bébéar, founder of l’Institut Montaigne, in London in the spring.
  • A meeting with Nicole Guedj, former human rights minister, leading humanitarian relief figure, with the popular movement on 4 February.

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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Meet Frédéric Beigbeder – Tuesday 24 November

October 29, 2009

Sciences po Alumni UK and the French Institute in London present:

Un Roman français, Frédéric Beigbeder

in conversation with Agnès Catherine Poirier

Tuesday 24 November,

at the French Institute in London

jpg_unromanfrancais500-48d86Un 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

To book your place:

 

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JP Jouyet & Howard Davies – 18 June – FCO

May 17, 2009

SciencesPo Alumni UK is proud to be associated, on a symbolic date, the 18 June (from 12:00 to 14:15), with a high profile event at the Foreign Office (SW1) with guest-speakers Jean-Pierre Jouyet (SP 76)and Sir Howard Davies.

Allocation will be made on a first come first served basis, with priority to up-to-date members.

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Ninth Franco-British Council Biennial Lecture

“Back to the drawing board? The regulation of financial markets” with

Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chair of the Autorité des marchés financiers,  former Europe Minister

and

 Howard Davies, Director of the LSE, former Chair of the Financial Services Authority

followed by

Reception in the Locarno Suite

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

King Charles Street, London SW1

Thursday, 18 June 2009, 12:00 – 14:15 pm

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