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 [1]. Neither lists are complete.

Heads of International Organisations

• Boutros Boutros-Ghali (b. 1922), United Nations Secretary-General (1992-1996)
• Michel Camdessus (b. 1933), Chairman 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
• Roger Ockrent (b. 1907-1983), Chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (1957-1974)
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (b. 1949), 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

Heads of State or Government

World

• Edvard Beneš (1884-1948), President of Czechoslovakia (1935-1948)
• Paul Biya (b. 1933), President of Cameroon (1982-present)
• Bao Dai (1913-1997), Emperor of Vietnam (1926-1955), Emperor of Annam (1926-1945)
• 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)
• 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

• Jacques Chirac (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)
• Alain Destexhe, Belgian liberal Senator and author
• Salome Zurabishvili, former French high-profile diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the current Leader of the United Georgian Opposition
• Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian Senator, anti-corruption activist, and Candidate for President of Colombia
• François-Albert Angers, eminent Canadian economist
• Ertugrul Osman V (1912-present), Crown Prince of Turkey (1912-1924), Head of the House of Osmanli (1994-present)
• 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, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• George Corm, former Minister of Finance of Lebanon (1998 to 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 Foreign Affairs
• Bernard Landry, former Premier of Quebec
• John Grimley, former White House staffer in the Bush Administration, top executive at CEO Communications, a leading Republican Party communications strategy firm
• Afif Safieh, Palestinian Ambassador to the US, regarded as the most articulate living Palestinian diplomat
• Michel de Sallaberry, erstwhile Canadian Ambassador to 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)
• 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.
• 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

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, Governor of Poitou-Charentes and 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
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French deputy and former French Minister of the Economy
  • 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)
  • François Hollande, leader of the Socialist Party
  • 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
  • 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 U.S., UN, NATO, and the OEEC
  • Georges Berthoin (Ambassador of the European Community to the UK)
  • André François-Poncet, former Ambassador of France to Germany
  • Gerard 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 (in French: Jean-Pierre Azéma)
• Bertrand Badie (in French: Bertrand Badie)
• Frédéric Beigbeder, novelist
• Nicolas Beytout (in French: 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 (in French: Louis Chauvel)
• Paul Claudel, writer
• Jean-Marie Colombani, head of Le Monde
• Michèle Cotta (in French: Michèle Cotta)
• Guillaume Dustan (in French: Guillaume Dustan)
• Hervé Guéneron
• Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
• Alain Duhamel, senior journalist at Le Monde and Libération
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi (in French: Jean-Paul Fitoussi)
• Matthew Fraser, Editor-in-Chief of National Post (Canada).
• Jacques Généreux (in French: Jacques Généreux)
• Pierre Georges
• Hala Gorani, CNN journalist and anchorwoman
• Julien Gracq, novelist
• Stanley Hoffmann, Professor at Harvard University (in French: Stanley Hoffmann)
• Christophe Jaffrelot (in French: 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 (in French: Marc Lambron)
• Marc Lazar
• Bernard-Henri Lévy, bestselling French writer, philosopher, political campaigner
• 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, (in French: 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 (in French: Pascal Perrineau)
• Roger Peyrefitte, novelist
• Jean Picq (in French: Jean Picq)
• Marcel Proust, novelist
• René Rémond, historian, member of the Académie Française
• Jean-Christophe Rufin, novelist (in French: Jean-Christophe Rufin)
• Robert B. Silvers, co-editor of The New York Review of Books
• Anne Sinclair (in French: Anne Sinclair)
• Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and bestselling author
• Paul Morand (in French: Paul Morand)
• David Pujadas (in French: David Pujadas)
• Russ Rymer, Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones Magazine
• Alain-Gérard Slama (in French: Alain-Gérard Slama)
• Maurice Vaïsse (in French: Maurice Vaïsse)
• Georges Vedel
• Florian Zeller, novelist, Prix Interallié 2004

Business & Finance

• Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank (2003-present), 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
• Jean Marc Espalioux, CEO of Accor, European leader and one of the world's largest hotel groups
• Laurence Parisot, CEO of IFOP Group, 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 Seilliere, CEO of Medef
• Patrice Allain-Dupre, CEO of ESL Network
• Matthieu Delporte, CFO Baracoda Wireless Solutions
• Guillaume Pepy, CEO of Voyages-sncf.com, General Manager of SNCF.com
• 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 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 OECD, former Chief Economist for Latin America at BBVA
• 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
• 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.