List of Sciences Po people

This is a list of alumni, former staff, and those otherwise associated with Sciences Po. For further information, refer to the list of Sciences Po alumni in the French Wikipedia. Neither list is complete.

Heads of international organisations

• Boutros Boutros-Ghali (b. 1922), United Nations Secretary-General (1992–1996)
• Michel Camdessus (b. 1933), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1987–2000)
• Nicole Fontaine (b. 1942), President of the European Parliament (1999–2001)
• Pascal Lamy (b. 1947), Director-General of the World Trade Organization
• Pierre Lellouche, president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• Roger Ockrent (b. 1907–1983), chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (1957–1974)
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (b. 1949), ex-Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
• Simone Veil (b. 1927), president of the European Parliament (1979–1984)
• Wan Waithayakon (1891–1976), president of the United Nations General Assembly (1956–1958)
• Christine Lagarde (b. 1956), Managing Director of the International Monetary fund (2011- )

Heads of state or government

World

• Alpha Condé (b. 1938), President of Guinea (2010–present)
• Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), President of Czechoslovakia (1935–1948)
• Paul Biya (b. 1933), President of Cameroon (1982–present)
• Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000), President of Tunisia (1957–1987)
• Bảo Đại (1913–1997), Emperor of Vietnam (1926–1955), Emperor of Annam (1926–1945)
• José Sócrates (b. 1957), Prime Minister of Portugal (2005–2011)
• Chandrika Kumaratunga (b. 1945), President of Sri Lanka (1994–2005)
• Mohammed Mossadegh (1882–1967), Prime Minister of Iran (1951–1953), Time magazine Man of the Year (1951)
• Pridi Phanomyong (1900–1983), Revolutionary, Regent of Thailand (1944–1946), Prime Minister of Thailand (1946)
• Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000), Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979, 1980–1984)
• Pierre Werner (1913–2002), Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959–1974, 1979–1984), so-called "father of the euro"
• Rainier III (1923–2005), Prince of Monaco (1923–2005)

France

• François Hollande (b. 1954), President of the French Republic (2012-)
• Jacques Chirac (b. 1932), President of the French Republic (1995–2007), Prime Minister of France (1983–1986, 1986–1988)
• François Mitterrand (1916–1996), President of the French Republic (1981–1995)
• Dominique de Villepin (b. 1953), Prime Minister of France (2005–2007)
• Lionel Jospin (b. 1937), Prime Minister of France (1997–2002)
• Alain Juppé (b. 1945), Prime Minister of France (1995–1997)
• Édouard Balladur (b. 1929), Prime Minister of France (1993–1995)
• Michel Rocard (b. 1930), Prime Minister of France (1988–1991)
• Laurent Fabius (b. 1946), Prime Minister of France (1983–1986)
• Pierre Mauroy (b. 1928) Prime Minister of France (1981–1984)
• Raymond Barre (1924–2007), Prime Minister of France (1976–1981)
• Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000), Prime Minister of France (1969–1972)
• Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), Prime Minister of France (1968–1969)
• Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister of France (1959–1962)

Politics & government

World

• L. Paul Bremer (b. 1941), U.S. Civil Administrator in Iraq (2003–2004)
• William L. Eagleton, United States ambassador
• Adrian A. Basora, United States ambassador
• Joan E. Spero, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
• Alain Destexhe, Belgian liberal senator and author
• Salome Zurabishvili, former Frenc] high-profile diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the current leader of the United Georgian Opposition
• Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator, anti-corruption activist, and candidate for president of Colombia
• François-Albert Angers, eminent Canadian economist
• Ertuğrul Osman, pretender to the title of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, head of the house of Osmanli (1994–2009)
• Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (1924–1929), 1925 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Caroline, Princess of Hanover, princess of the Principality of Monaco, daughter of American actress Grace Kelly
• Abbas Hajizadeh, duke of Davan
• Stéphane Dion, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• George Corm, former Minister of Finance of Lebanon (1998–2000)
• Jihad Azour, Minister of Finance of Lebanon (2005–present)
• Ghassan Salamé, former Minister of Culture of Lebanon (2000–2003), prolific author on Middle East politics
• Brad Setser, former Deputy Secretary in the US Treasury Department
• Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005–2012).
• Bernard Landry, former Premier of Quebec
• John Grimley, former White House staff member in the Bush administration, and advisor to former British foreign secretary David Owen, currently US-licensed attorney specialising in international trade
• Afif Safieh, Palestinian ambassador to the US, regarded as the most articulate living Palestinian diplomat
• Michel de Salaberry, erstwhile Canadian ambassador to the kingdom of Jordan
• Yves-Thibault de Silguy, EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs
• Stanley Woodward, erstwhile US ambassador to Canada
• Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations
• Howard Balloch, erstwhile Canadian Ambassador to China, director at Zi Corporation
• Sally Shelton-Colby, assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research in the US Department of State, erstwhile US ambassador to Grenada and Barbados
• Brady Anderson, US ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania
• William Eagelton, representative of UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, erstwhile US ambassador to Syria
• Jim Bullington, erstwhile US ambassador to Bujumbura
• Roland Dumas (b. 1922), French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984–1993)
• Francis Orlando Wilcox (1908–1985), Assistant Secretary of State of the USA (1955–1961)
• James Foley, US ambassador to Haiti (2003–2005)
• Nawaf Salam, ambassador and permanent representative of Lebanon to the United Nations [1]
• Charles Rizk, Lebanese justice minister 2005-
• Nebahat Albayrak, a Turkish–Dutch politician in the Netherlands; she is the current State Secretary of Justice in the Netherlands
• Nano Ružin, Macedonian professor of political and social sciences, Ex-Macedonian Ambassador to NATO, and presidential candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party in 2009
• Božidar Đelić, vice-president of the government of Serbia, 2007-
• Ieng Sary, deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979
• Hissène Habré, former President of Chad
• Abdourahim Agne, Former Majority Leader Socialist Party Senegal

France

• Ministers (N.B. This is a small selection given almost every minister since the inception of the Fifth Republic studied at the Institute.)
  • Ségolène Royal, a defeated 2007 presidential candidate
  • Martine Aubry, former French Minister for Social Affairs, mayor of Lille (in French: Martine Aubry)
  • Jack Lang, former French Minister of Culture and Education
  • Jean-Pierre Chevènement, former French Minister of Interior
  • Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002)
  • Hervé Gaymard, former French Minister of Finance
  • Dominique Baudis, French MP and former mayor of Toulouse (in French: Dominique Baudis)
  • Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, vice-president of the Council of State
  • Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, former Minister of Industry, French Ambassador to Algeria
  • Bernadette Chirac, former First Lady of France, Representative in Corrèze General Council, chairwoman of Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris, and wife of former French president Jacques Chirac
  • Jean-Louis Bourlanges, member of the European Parliament, vice-président of the UDF
  • Jean Peyrelevade, civil servant, politician and business leader
  • Olivier Duhamel, former member of the European Parliament, former Member of the European Convention (in French: Olivier Duhamel)
  • Xavier Musca, director of the French Treasury; Director-General of the French Treasury and Economic Development Department (2002–present)

• Diplomats (N.B. This is a small selection given almost every diplomat since the inception of the Fifth Republic studied at the Institute.)
  • Jean-David Levitte (b. 1946), ambassador of France to the USA (2002–present), French Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2000–2002)
  • Pierre de Boisdeffre, French ambassador to Uruguay (1981–1984), Colombia (1984–1988), and the Council of Europe (1988–1991)
  • Hervé Alphand, erstwhile French ambassador to the United States, UN, NATO, and the OEEC
  • Georges Berthoin (ambassador of the European Community to the UK)
  • Roland de Margerie, former ambassador of France to Germany
  • André François-Poncet, former ambassador of France to Germany
  • Gérard Errera, ambassador of France to the United Kingdom (2002–present)
  • Claude Martin, ambassador of France to Germany (2001–present)
  • Daniel Jouanneau, ambassador of France to Canada (2004–present)
  • Dominique Girard, ambassador of France to India

Academia, journalism & literature

• Raymond Aron
• Jean-Pierre Azéma
• Bertrand Badie
• Frédéric Beigbeder, novelist
• Nicolas Beytout
• Derek Bok, president of Harvard University
• Adda Bozeman (1908–1994), eminent American legal scholar
• Fernand Braudel
• Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, specialist of Russia, member of the Académie Française
• Emmanuel Carrère
• Louis Chauvel
• Vincent Chauvet
• Paul Claudel, writer
• Jean-Marie Colombani, head of Le Monde
• Michèle Cotta
• Guillaume Dustan
• Cesar Garcia Perez de Leon
• Hervé Guéneron
• Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
• Alain Duhamel, senior journalist at Le Monde and Libération
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi
• Matthew Fraser, editor-in-chief of National Post (Canada)
• Gérald Garutti, theatre director and academic
• Jacques Généreux
• Pierre Georges
• Hala Gorani, CNN journalist and anchorwoman
• Julien Gracq, novelist
• Nicolas Grenier, poet
• Stanley Hoffmann, professor at Harvard University
• Adrienne Jablanczy
• Christophe Jaffrelot
• Gilles Kepel
• Rebecca Jarvis, finalist on The Apprentice, Season Four, and reporter on CNBC
• Stanley Karnow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Southeast Asia, Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Grayson Kirk, eminent political scientist, president of Columbia University (1953–1968)
• Marc Lambron, novelist
• Bruno Latour
• Marc Lazar
• Bernard-Henri Lévy, bestselling French writer, philosopher, political campaigner
• Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, writer, poet and economist
• Edmond Marc du Rogoff, ancien professeur, Département de Communications, Université d'Ottawa, Canada
• Jean Maynaud, eminent political scientist, author of myriad works on European integration
• Anne Muxel
• Christine Ockrent, one of France's most respected broadcast journalist
• Erik Orsenna, member of the Académie Française and former chief economic advisor to François Mitterrand
• Pascal Perrineau
• Roger Peyrefitte, novelist
• Jean Picq
• Marcel Proust, novelist
• René Rémond, historian, member of the Académie Française
• Jean-Christophe Rufin, novelist
• Robert B. Silvers, co-editor of The New York Review of Books
• Anne Sinclair
• Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and bestselling author
• Paul Morand
• David Pujadas
• Russ Rymer, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine
• Alain-Gérard Slama
• Maurice Vaïsse
• Georges Vedel
• Florian Zeller, novelist, Prix Interallié 2004
• Ousmane Kane, Columbia University, New York

Business & finance

• Daniel Bouton, former CEO of Société Générale
• Frédéric Oudéa, CEO of Société Générale
• Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank (2003–2011), former governor of the Bank of France (1993–2003)
• Jacques de Larosière, former president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Director-General of the French Treasury and Economic Development Department
• Wilfried Baumgartner, governor of the Bank of France
• David René de Rothschild, chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons
• Louis Schweitzer, former CEO of Renault
• Michel Bon, former CEO of France Telecom and current CEO of Carrefour
• Jean-Cyril Spinetta, CEO of Air France
• Serge Weinberg, CEO of Pinault Printemps Redoute (PPR), one of the world's largest luxury goods groups
• Agnès Touraine, CEO of Act III Consultants, former CEO of Vivendi Universal Publishing
• Gérard Mestrallet, CEO of Suez
• Anne-Claire Tattinger, CEO of Société du Louvre, major luxury hotel and luxury goods company
• Thierry Moulonguet, CFO and Executive VP of Renault
• François Roussely, CEO of Credit Suisse France, and vice-chairman of Credit Suisse Europe
• Jean-Hugues Bittner, CFO of Morgan Stanley Europe
• Marc Vincent, director of Credit Suisse, former Managing Director at Citigroup France
• Gilles Arnaud CFO of Xitec Software
• Michel Gardel, CEO of Toyota France
• Christian Mandl, CEO and founder of SkyEurope Airlines
• Gerardo Braggiotti, CEO of Lazard LLC, Italy
• Henri Giscard d'Estaing, CEO of Club Med
• Elizabeth Fleuriot, CEO of Kellogg's France
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• Laurence Parisot, “boss of the bosses”, president of the MEDEF (ex-CNPF), director of the IFOP, CEO of Optimum
• Bertrand Jacquillat, CEO and founder of Associés en Finances
• Philippe Camus, CEO of European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company
• Alain Carron, CFO of Standard & Poor's in Paris
• Romain Durand, CEO of Scor VIE
• Ray Ortali, CEO of Prime Technologies
• Ernest-Antoine Seillière, “boss of the bosses”, president of the MEDEF (ex-CNPF)
• Patrice Allain-Dupre, CEO of ESL Network
• Matthieu Delporte, CFO Baracoda Wireless Solutions
• Guillaume Pepy, director of the SNCF, the French national railway company
• Frédéric Jolly, chairman of Russell for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
• Gerard Hermet, CEO of GFK Marketing
• Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, CEO of X-Leisure
• Jean-Pierre Arbon, CEO of 00h00.com, the world's first online publishing house
• Richard Descoings, CEO and director of Sciences Po
• Fabrice Moulle Berteau, CEO of Sycamore Gestion privee
• Frédéric Lemoine, former CEO of the Groupe Capgemini
• Alex Vieux, CEO and founder of technology conference sponsor, DASAR, and publisher of Red Herring magazine.
• Benoit d’Angelin, Managing Director at Centaurus Capital Limited
• Remi de Fouchier, Senior Vice President of Gemplus, the world leader in smart cards
• Javier Santiso, economist at the OECD, former Chief Economist for Latin America at BBVA
• Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon, marketing executive and CEO of the aufeminin.com group
• Nicolas Calemard, Director of Human Resources, LVMH

Culture & sports

• Christian Dior, haute couture and fashion designer
• Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games
• Fanny Ardant, internationally acclaimed French movie star
• Marc Drillech, sociologist and President of universities
• Léo Ferré, singer and songwriter
• Anne Roumanoff, comedian (in French: Anne Roumanoff)
• Kimon Evan Marengo, major British cartoonist
• Camille Dalmais, aka Camille, singer and songwriter
• Thierry Gilardi, football and rugby commentator
• Rafaela Reyes - Chaboussou, academy award winning actress
• Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (Valérian and Laureline)