100 Notable alumni of
Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
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Paris West University Nanterre La Defense is 247th in the world, 85th in Europe, and 7th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Paris West University Nanterre La Defense sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Emmanuel Macron
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- bankerpoliticianinvestment bankerstatespersonofficial
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He served as Minister of Economics and Finance under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016.
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David Guetta
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- record producerdisc jockeysongwriter
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Pierre David Guetta is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify. Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs polls in 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. In 2013, Billboard ranked his song "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland) as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time.
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Christine Lagarde
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree in law and English
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- athleteeconomistlawyerbankerpolitician
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Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019. Lagarde had also served in the Government of France, most prominently as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from 2007 until 2011. She is the first woman to hold each of those posts.
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Clémence Poésy
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- actortelevision actormodelfilm actorstage actor
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Clémence Guichard, known professionally as Clémence Poésy ( French: [klemɑ̃s pɔezi]), is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, Rana in 127 Hours, Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, and the lead role as Elise Wassermann in the 24-episode series The Tunnel.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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- economistlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
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Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals. Strauss-Kahn was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and Sciences Po, and was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, as part of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. He sought the nomination in the Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006, but was defeated by Ségolène Royal.
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Anne Hidalgo
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- Personnel of direct services to individualspolitician
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Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu is a Spanish-born French politician who has served as Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS).
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Vincent Bolloré
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- businessperson
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Vincent Bolloré is a French billionaire businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of the investment group Bolloré until his retirement from the family business in 2022. In January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$9.9 billion.
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Kev Adams
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied in 2009
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- film producertelevision actoractorstand-up comedianvoice actor
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Kev Adams or Kev' Adams is a French comedian, actor, humorist, screenwriter and film producer.
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Blanche Gardin
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- screenwriterfilm directorstand-up comediancomedianactor
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Blanche Gardin is a French comedian, actress and screenwriter. She became known to the general public through her participation in the Jamel Comedy Club and for her role in the television series WorkinGirls on Canal+, and then became popular with her stand-up shows. She won the Molière Award for Humor two years in a row for her shows Je parle toute seule and Bonne nuit Blanche in 2018 and 2019. As a screenwriter, she notably co-wrote the short program Parents mode d'emploi, broadcast on France 2.
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Dominique de Villepin
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- writerlawyerdiplomatpolitician
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Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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- film directorjournalisttelevision presenterenvironmentalistteacher
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Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.
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Jean Messiha
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- punditpoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
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Jean Messiha is an Egyptian-born French far-right economist, media personality, and formerly a politician and senior civil servant. He was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Management at the Ministry of Defence in 2014 before he joined the National Front (FN) in 2016, when he became spokesman of Horaces, a group of high-ranking civil servants and business executives who meet once a month to discuss the party platform.
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Valérie Trierweiler
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- politicianwriterjournalist
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Valérie Trierweiler is a French journalist and author. She has hosted political talk shows and has contributed to Paris Match. She is best known for having been the companion of the president of France, François Hollande, until January 2014.
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Katalin Novák
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- politicianeconomist
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Katalin Éva Veresné Novák is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44, she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post. Prior to her presidency, she had been a member of the National Assembly for Fidesz from 2018 to 2022, during which time she had also served as Minister for Family Affairs in the fourth Orbán government, from 2020 to 2021.
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Élodie Bouchez
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- film actor
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Élodie Bouchez is a French actress. She became internationally known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film Wild Reeds.
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Jocelyn Quivrin
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the film Syriana.
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Frédéric Mitterrand
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in historiography and geography
- Occupations
- film directorwriterfilm producerfilm actorradio personality
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Frédéric Mitterrand was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Jean-François Lyotard
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- writerphilologistphilosophersociologistliterary critic
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Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles. He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.
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Yasmina Reza
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- film directorwriterplaywrighttranslatoractor
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Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award-winning 2006 play God of Carnage.
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Jean-Louis Borloo
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- lawyerpolitician
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Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician and lawyer who served as the inaugural president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. In government, he was Minister Delegate for the City and Urban Renewal from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing from 2004 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac, and Minister of the Economy, Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Jeanne Mas
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- actorsingersongwriter
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Jeanne Mas is a French pop singer. She is well known in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was "Toute première fois" in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the United Kingdom in English. Two of her singles charted at number one in France: "Johnny, Johnny" and "En rouge et noir" in 1985 and 1986, respectively. Her 1980's albums are good examples of the Euro disco electropop style popular in Continental Europe at the time, featuring synthesizers and very catchy melodies.
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William Leymergie
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- television producernews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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William Leymergie is a French journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public broadcaster France 2 and TV5 in Canada.
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Anne Wiazemsky
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- screenwriternovelistfilm directorfilm actor
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Anne Wiazemsky was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
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Pierre Ménès
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- sports journalistfilm actor
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Pierre Ménès is a French football commentator, analyst and presenter. He was an analyst on the Canal+ programme Canal Football Club.
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Muriel Pénicaud
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- business executivebusinesspersonpolitician
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Muriel Pénicaud is a former French business executive and politician who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 17 May 2017 to 6 July 2020.
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Camille Kouchner
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2004 graduated with doctorate in France in private law
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- university teacherjuristlawyer
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Camille Kouchner, is a lawyer, French academic and lecturer in private law. With her book, La familia grande, she initiated the Duhamel scandal.
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Olivia Grégoire
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with licence in history
- Occupations
- cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
- Biography
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Olivia Grégoire is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Trade, Crafts and Tourism under President Emmanuel Macron since 2022.
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Cornelius Castoriadis
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied philosophy
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- psychoanalysteconomistphilosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie collective.
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Richard Malka
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- comics artistlawyercomics writer
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Richard Malka is a French lawyer, comics writer and novelist. As lawyer Malka in 2007 successfully defended Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val against charges of racism following the magazine's publication of Mohammad caricatures. Other clients include Clearstream, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Caroline Fourest.
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Olivier Besancenot
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- politicianmail carriertrade unionistcommunistauthor
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Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French far-left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau parti anticapitaliste, NPA) from 2009 to 2011.
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Stéphane Freiss
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- actortelevision writerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Stéphane Freiss is a French film, television, and stage actor. He won a César Award for his performance in the 1988 film Chouans!.
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Éric Naulleau
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- radio personalityessayist
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Éric Naulleau is a French literary critic, editor, essayist and columnist.
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Nicolas Bay
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- politician
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Nicolas Bay is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. He served as General Secretary of the National Front from 2014 to 2017. He has served as a Regional Councillor for Normandy since January 2016, having previously served as a Municipal Councillor for Elbeuf from 2014 to 2015.
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Katherine Pancol
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- journalistwriter
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Katherine Pancol is a French journalist and novelist. Her books have been translated into some 30 languages, and sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, she is known as the author of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Penguin, 2013) and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles (Penguin, 2016), both translated by William Rodarmor.
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Cheng Li-chiun
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chiun is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the vice premier of the Republic of China since 2024. Before her vice premiership, she served as the minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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Étienne Chouard
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree in law
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- teacherpolitical activist
- Biography
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Étienne Chouard is a French high school teacher, blogger, and political activist.
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Christian Jacq
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- writer
- Biography
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Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book series about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.
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Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Dominique Claudine Nouvian Ouattara is the current First Lady of Ivory Coast, married to President Alassane Ouattara.
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Eva Illouz
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- university teacherwritercommunication scholardirector of studiessociologist
- Biography
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Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and a Professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
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Christophe Bourseiller
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied philosophy
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- radio producerradio personalityteachernovelistfilm actor
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Christophe Gintzburger, known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller ( French pronunciation: [buʁsɛje]), is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.
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Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
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- politician
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Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as the party's First Secretary from April 2014 to June 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the city of Paris, as a member of the Socialist, Republican & Citizen.
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Brice Hortefeux
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- politician
- Biography
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Brice Hortefeux is a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2024.
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Bernard de La Villardière
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- journalistradio personality
- Biography
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Bernard Berger de La Villardière is a French journalist, radio and television presenter.
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Pierre Lellouche
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- juristlawyerpolitician
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Pierre Lellouche, is a lawyer and geopolitics specialist, recognized as a right-wing political figure in France. He is also known for his work as a columnist and author. Elected as a deputy in Sarcelles in 1993, he subsequently represented the 4th constituency of Paris from 1997 until his appointment as Secretary of State for European Affairs in June 2009. In November 2010, Lellouche was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in the Fillon III government, a position he held until the end of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency in May 2012. He was re-elected as a deputy for the 1st constituency of Paris in June 2012, serving until April 2017, when he retired from elective politics. Since then, he has continued his career as a lawyer, geopolitics consultant, member of influential think tanks, and columnist.
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Benjamin Stora
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- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs (1974 and 1984) and a Doctorate of the State (1991).
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Bruno Gollnisch
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- japanologistjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Bruno Gollnisch is a French academic and politician of the far-right National Rally (RN), formerly known as National Front. He was a member of the European Parliament and was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the defection of the Greater Romania Party. He was thereafter a Non-Inscrit (independent). Gollnisch has also been the executive vice-president of the FN from 2007 to 2011. He was also a councillor of the Rhône-Alpes région of France. Because of his public comments and his position in the National Front, he is a controversial political figure in France.
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Zoe Konstantopoulou
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- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Zoe Konstantopoulou is a Greek politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from February to October 2015. Since 2016 she serves as the president of the Course of Freedom.
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Olivier Blanchard
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Olivier Jean Blanchard is a French economist and professor. He is Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Dominique Raimbourg
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dominique Raimbourg was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Loire-Atlantique's 4th constituency from 2001 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2017, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He is the son of famous French actor Bourvil.
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriterperforming artisttheatrical director
- Biography
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing is a French actor and film director. He has a daughter with cinematographer Caroline Champetier, the actress Alice de Lencquesaing.
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Clara Dupont-Monod
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with French university master
- Occupations
- literary scholarwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Clara Dupont-Monod is a French journalist and woman of letters. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 2021.
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Philippe Descola
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- anthropologistprofessorsenior lectureruniversity teacherethnologist
- Biography
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Philippe Descola, FBA is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
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Bruno Le Roux
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- politician
- Biography
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Bruno Le Roux is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from December 2016 to March 2017.
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Philippe Delerm
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- novelistteacherwritersports journalistessayist
- Biography
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Philippe Delerm is a French writer whose collection of essays La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules sold more than one million copies in France.
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Pierre Assouline
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- writerliterary criticjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Pierre Assouline is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.
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Chloé Delaume
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- novelistfilm directorwriterplaywrightpublisher
- Biography
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Chloé Delaume is a French writer. She is also an editor and, more occasionally, a performer, musician, and singer. Her literary work, largely autobiographical, focuses on the practice of experimental literature, feminism and the issue of autofiction.
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Ana Maria Machado
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- painterwriterchildren's writernovelistscholar
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Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". She also won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2012.
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Georges Frêche
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- historianjuristuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007.
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Danielle Simonnet
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- professors, scientific professionsschool counselorpolitician
- Biography
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Danielle Simonnet is a French politician. She was elected Member of Parliament for Paris's 15th constituency in the 2022 legislative election.
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Jeanne Barseghian
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- corporate administrative and commercial executiveenvironmentalistjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Jeanne Barseghian is a French politician who is the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after she successfully led the EELV list in the 2020 municipal election there.
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Bernard Friot
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- university teacherlecturersociologist
- Biography
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Bernard Friot is a French sociologist and economist. He is an emeritus professor of Sociology, and previously taught at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
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Loïc Wacquant
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- university teacheranthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Loïc J. D. Wacquant is a French sociologist specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography.
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Zeev Sternhell
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1969 graduated with doctorate in France in political science
- Occupations
- historianopinion journalistpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Zeev Sternhell was a Polish-born Israeli historian, political scientist, commentator on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and writer. He was one of the world's leading theorists of the phenomenon of fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and wrote for Haaretz newspaper.
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Sylvie Germain
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- teacherphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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Sylvie Germain is a French author.
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Abd al-Aziz Jarad
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- university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Abdelaziz Djerad is an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 28 December 2019 to 30 June 2021. In September 2021, he was appointed ambassador to Sweden.
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Laurence Boone
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- economist
- Biography
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Laurence Boone is a French economist who served as the Secretary of State for European affairs in the administration of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.
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François Delapierre
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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François Delapierre was a French politician. He served as the national secretary of the Left Party from December 2010 until his death in 2015. He was also a regional councillor of Île-de-France from February 2009 until his death. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party from 1986 to 2008. He was born in Paris.
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Stéphane Courtois
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- historianDirector of Research at CNRS
- Biography
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Stéphane Courtois is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche-sur-Yon, and director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and communist states.
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Jean-Noël Jeanneney
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France in political history
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a French historian and politician. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, both important figures in French politics.
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Françoise de Panafieu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of The Republicans (LR) party and mayor of the 17th arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2008.
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Guillaume Martin
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2015 graduated with French masters degree
- Occupations
- playwrightwritersport cyclist
- Biography
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Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ United.
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Annette Wieviorka
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1991 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- historianart historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.
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Pascal Ory
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Pascal Ory is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history.
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María Ángela Holguín
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar is a Colombian politician and diplomat who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Personal Envoy on Cyprus since 2024.
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Philippe Augier
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- businesspersonpensioneranciens artisans, commerçants, chefs d'entreprisepolitician
- Biography
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Philippe Augier is a French politician. He is a member of the New Centre.
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Daniel Bensaïd
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- writerphilosopherschool teacheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Daniel Bensaïd was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
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Caroline Mécary
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- professions libérales et assimiléslawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Caroline Mécary is a French lawyer as well as a politician of the France Unbowed (also known as La France Insoumise or LFI) in France. She is also an active member of the Regional council of Île-de-France. A staunch supporter of LGBT rights and gay marriage, Caroline Mécary is also the co-founder of the Copernic Foundation.
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Alexandre Mars
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Alexandre Mars is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. He is an ambassador and board member of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Gilles Boyer
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- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Gilles Boyer is a French politician of the Horizons party. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and was re-elected in 2024.
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Nathalie A. Cabrol
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- mountaineerfreediverastrobiologistplanetary scientistauthor
- Biography
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Nathalie A. Cabrol is a French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the "High Lakes Project" funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). There, with her team, she documents life's adaptation to extreme environments, the effect of rapid climate change on lake ecosystems and habitats, its geobiological signatures, and relevance to planetary exploration.
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Camille Pascal
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- essayistcivil servantwriterhistorianofficial
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Camille Pascal is a French writer and senior civil servant.
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon
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- officialart historianuniversity teacherpolitician
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon is a French museum director and politician.
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Nathalie Élimas
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- politicianschool teachercadres de la fonction publique
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Nathalie Élimas is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who served as State Secretary for Priority Education at the Ministry of National Education in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022. She was previously a member of the National Assembly from 2017 until 2020, representing Val-d'Oise's 6th constituency.
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Aleksander Pociej
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- 1988-1990 graduated with Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées in international commercial law
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- extralawyeropinion journalistpolitician
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Aleksander August Pociej is a Polish lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (8th, 9th and 10th term) representing the constituency of Warsaw.
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Andreas D. Mavroyiannis
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with PhD in sociology in sociology
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Andreas D. Mavroyiannis is a Cypriot diplomat and politician who served as Cyprus' ambassador and representative to the United Nations, European Union, France, and Ireland. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
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Serge Tisseron
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- psychoanalystwriterpsychiatristcaricaturistuniversity teacher
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Serge Tisseron is a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He holds a PhD in Psychology. He is a senior research fellow at University Paris VII Denis Diderot. He is a member of Centre of Psychoanalysis Research, Medicine and Society at Université Paris VII (CRPMS). He studies the relationships between youth, the media and images and the effect of information and communication technology on young people. He is also an illustrator and a photographer.
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Sébastien Nadot
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- physical education teachersport historianpolitician
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Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.
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Camille de Toledo
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- photographerfilm screenwriterfilm producersculptorcomics writer
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Camille de Toledo is a French writer and a visual artist.
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Annie Cohen-Solal
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- historianwriteruniversity teacher
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Annie Cohen-Solal is a writer, historian, cultural diplomat and public intellectual in a trajectory that spans more than four decades. Born in Algiers, in a Jewish family from multiple Mediterranean origins, she faced numerous geographical displacements and devoted her entire career to issues of migration and creation. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. An award-winning writer from Sartre: 1905-1980 to Leo & His Circle: the Life of Leo Castelli (Prix ArtCurial 2010) and A Foreigner Called Picasso (Prix Femina 2021), her books, exhibitions, and lectures have been widely covered both by academic reviews and by the press at large. Annie Cohen-Solal brings to life a surging global ebb and flow of cultural energies, driven by innumerable fascinating individuals– painters, collectors, critics– who initiated enormous cultural changes in history.
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Louis-Georges Tin
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2003 graduated with doctorate in France in humanities
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- writergroup activistuniversity teachercollection manager
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Louis-Georges Tin is a French academic, gay rights campaigner, and anti-racist activist. Tin is noted for initiating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, now marked in over 130 countries across the world, and co-founding the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN).
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Alain Ehrenberg
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- sociologistDirector of Research at CNRS
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Alain Ehrenberg is a French sociologist, known for his major work on clinical depression, The Weariness of the Self. His work focuses on the culture of individualism in modern times, and its relationship to mental health. As of 2023 he is research director at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
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Ludovic Chaker
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- politicianconsultantmartial arts teacheryoga instructorofficial
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Ludovic Chaker is a French government official. A former diplomat and politician, he is chiefly known as a political advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron and the first secretary of his political movement, En Marche!.
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Xavier Iacovelli
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- politician
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Xavier Iacovelli is a French politician who has been a member of the French Senate for Hauts-de-Seine since 2017.
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Sophie Taillé-Polian
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- cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
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Sophie Taillé-Polian is a French politician who has represented Val-de-Marne's 11th constituency in the National Assembly since 2022. She previously served as a Senator for Val-de-Marne from 2017 to 2022.
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Marie-France Stirbois
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- politician
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Marie-France Stirbois was a French National Front politician, representing Dreux from 1989 to 1993, and a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2004.
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Abdourahman Waberi
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- writerliterary critic
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Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic, and short-story writer from Djibouti.
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François Cusset
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
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- historianuniversity teacher
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François Cusset is a writer, intellectual historian, and Professor of American Civilisation at the University of Nanterre.
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Arlette Farge
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1972 graduated with doctorate in France
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- historianradio personalityteacher
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Arlette Farge is a French historian who specialises in the study of the 18th century, a director of research at the CNRS, attached to the centre for historical research at the EHESS.
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Ziyad Baroud
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- politician
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Ziyad Baroud is a French Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist. He served as minister of interior and municipalities from 2008 to 2011 for two consecutive cabinets in both Fuad Siniora and Saad Hariri's governments.
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Manuel Pinho
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- politicianeconomist
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Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho is a former Portuguese Minister of Economy and Innovation (2005–09) who achieved greater notoriety after he left office for being prosecuted and convicted on multiple charges of passive corruption, tax fraud, and money laundering. In 2024 he was sentenced to 10-years in prison and a fine in the amount of 4.9 million euros that he was shown to have received while in office in secret lump sum and monthly offshore pay-offs from his longtime mentor Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado in exchange for benefitting Salgado's Espírito Santo Financial Group that Pinho rejoined after he left office. Pinho has remained under house arrest since 2021, which was extended in April 2025 when his appeal to overturn the conviction was denied by Lisbon's First Appellate Court. As of November 2025, a subsequent appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court was pending and a complaint against the Portuguese state had been filed with the European Court of Human Rights. Manuel Pinho has admitted to improperly receiving payments offshore and evading the related taxes but has argued that those payments were owed to him and refuted the corruption charges publishing to that effect two books where he and his defense lawyer dispute the guilty verdict.
