April 21, 2009
This coming Thursday 23 April at 6:30pm at the French Institute in london, the Sciences Po Alumni UK are hosting 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 asap as per below; we hope to have many of you at the event, which is already well covered.
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April 21, 2009
Hosted by Professor Maurice Fraser of the London School of Economics.
Within the FT Business – LSE European Institute Future of Europe.
Lecture Series given by former French presidential candidate François Bayrou.
‘Imagining a Humanist Europe’
Monday 27 April 2009 4.30-6pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Chair: Maurice Fraser
Please note that this lecture will be delivered in French. For further information, please see the LSE Public Lectures and Events homepage.
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March 30, 2009
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.
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March 10, 2009
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.
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March 8, 2009
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.
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March 3, 2009
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
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February 11, 2009
Tuesday 31 March 2009 – 07.30pm – The Sciences Po Alumni UK in partnership with the French Institute in London would like to invite you to:
TONY BLAIR: A MAN OF DESTINY
The talk will be introduced by Baroness Shephard of Northwold, former Secretary of State and MP.
Dr Sophie Loussouarn will present her new book, L’odyssée politique de Tony Blair, and will discuss the influence of Tony Blair on French politics from all sides.
Paradoxically, Nicolas Sarkozy as well as Ségolène Royal drew inspiration from the speeches of Tony Blair for the presidential campaign. Blair was invited at the National Convention of the UMP on January 14th 2008 and he declared that he was a centre left politician: “in the United States, I would be a democrat. In the United Kingdom, I am Labour. In France, I would probably be in the Cabinet. I would be a socialist but I would support those who mean to change it”. What will come out of his visit to President Obama who holds him as a role model?
Dr Sophie LOUSSOUARN is an alumna of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and Oxford (Wadham College). She graduated from Sciences Po in 1992 and is an expert on British politics and economics. She lectures at the University of Amiens in France and at the University of Alicante in Spain. She wrote a textbook on British institutions Definitely British Absolutely American and a book on the British Economy since 1945.
Tue 31 March 09 | 7.30pm | £3, conc. £2 | in English | French Institute in London
To book your place:
By phone: 0207 073 1350
By email: box.office@ambafrance.org.uk
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January 24, 2009
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.
Thank you to all of those who contributed to this event.
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January 19, 2009
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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December 30, 2008
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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