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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July 16, 2010
The latest issue of the Rue Saint Guillaume magazine gives an extensive account of our activities in the UK in 2009-2010.
To read the article (PDF), click here: Sciences Po Alumni UK in Rue St Guillaume.
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April 11, 2010
French Ambassador to the UK Maurice Gourdault Montagne has been awarded the Légion d’Honneur (national Order of the Legion of Honour) in France. The Légion d’Honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur is the highest decoration in France.
His Excellency Maurice Gourdault Montagne is a Sciences Po Alumnus who brings his support to numerous Sciences po Alumni UK activities – like our annual Charity Gala Dinner.
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March 19, 2010
The famous City of London newspaper, CITY AM published a page report today about Yalan Chuang, a Sciences Po Alumna based in London and founder of Chinese Original, a specialist Chinese language, translation and cultural learning service for the financial and legal sectors.
A big success in any language
Friday, 19th March 2010
A woman who teaches Chinese to the City is going from strength to strength
OF all the things you might expect to see in a language-teaching classroom, a piano is perhaps not high on the list. But that’s one of the most noticeable objects in Yalan Chuang’s office in King’s Cross, where she teaches businesspeople Chinese. “It is a very musical language, some words are spoken like a soprano and other like an alto,” she explains. Then idea came about from her first office, in what used to be Holy Trinity Church in South Kensington, where she inherited a grand piano. It has since become a vital part of her method.
To read full article online, click here, or to read the PDF, please click here.
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March 13, 2010
According to press reports, Sciences Po Alumnus (EF95) Pierre Henri Flamand, head of Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund, is said to start own firm.
Mr Flamand has worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and has run Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies, part of its asset management unit, from London since 2007. The unit was transformed under his leadership into a hedge fund that managed $7bn of investments in 2008.
Flamand is setting up his own fund as Wall Street pay and proprietary trading come under increased scrutiny from lawmakers.
Reports in the news:
Telegraph UK: Goldman star Pierre-Henri Flamand leaves to set up own fund.
Business Week: Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Head Flamand Said to Start Own Firm.
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March 13, 2010
How Richard Descoings has changed the Sciences Po brand? An in-depth article published by French newspaper Les Echos investigates.
To read full article, please click here.
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October 4, 2009
A report by the new online magazine Chic Londres on the 2009 Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Gala dinner:
Sciences-Po Alumni flock to Westminster!
For its second charity gala, the Sciences-Po Alumni UK Trust organised a dinner at the British Parliament, hosted by MP and former Europe minister Denis MacShane, under the patronage of French ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne and with baron David de Rothschild as guest speaker.
… To read more, click here.
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June 23, 2009
The Sciences Po Alumni UK organised a dinner in London last week with Morgan Stanley banker Michael Zaoui, Goldman Sachs’s commodities boss Isabelle Ealet , ex-Lehman banker and now at boutique Ondra Partners’ Benoit d’Angelin, Schlumberger family member Bertrand Coste, fomer French Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, Sciences Po director Richard Descoings , French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, Goldman’s Charles de Croisset and the headhunter Veni’s Stéphane Rambosson.
This dinner was reported by the Financial Times in the following article: French Kissing.
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April 5, 2009
Arnaud Vaissié (SP 1982), co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International SOS, and also co-founder of the think-tank, Cercle d’Outre-Manche, was recently interviewed by French Radio BFM to comment about the London G20 summit.
You can listen to the podcast by clicking here.
Stéphane Rambosson, President of the Sciences Po Alumni UK and partner at Veni Partners, also commented on the G20 summit on BFM radio.
You can listen to the podcast by clicking here.
Not a Sciences Po Alumnus, but a prominent friend and close ally of Sciences Po, Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, also commented on the London G20 summit on BFM.
You can listen to the podcast by clicking here.
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January 16, 2009
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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