100 Notable alumni of
Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
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Paris West University Nanterre La Defense is 255th in the world, 88th 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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- officialinternational forum participantbankerpoliticianinvestment banker
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been President of France since 2017. Macron is ex officio one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. He previously was Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016, and as Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014. He is a founding member of Renaissance, a centrist political party.
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David Guetta
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- songwritermusicianrecord producermusic executivedisc jockey
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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 14 billion streams. In 2011, 2020, 2021 and 2023, Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. 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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Nicolas Sarkozy
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- lawyerstatespersonjuristpolitician
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Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a French politician who served as the President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.
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Christine Lagarde
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree in English and law
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- economistbankerinternational forum participantsynchronized swimmerpolitician
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Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has served as 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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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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- lawyereconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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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.
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Anne Hidalgo
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- politicianinternational forum participantPersonnel of direct services to individuals
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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.
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Kev Adams
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied in 2009
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- film producercabaret performerscreenwritervoice actorstand-up comedian
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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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- stand-up comedianfilm directorscreenwriteractorcomedian
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Blanche Gardin is a French actress, comedian and writer.
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Vincent Bolloré
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- businessperson
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Vincent Bolloré is a French billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the investment group Bolloré. In September 2023, his net worth was estimated at US$8.6 billion, with his wealth considered to have been accumulated through predatory means.
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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- environmentalistpoliticianteachertelevision presenterjournalist
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Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is an European politician. Born Stateless in a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.
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Olivier Duhamel
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France
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- lawyerpoliticianscreenwriterradio personalitypolitical scientist
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Olivier Duhamel is a French former university professor and politician. As a member of the social-democratic Socialist Party, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004. In 2021 he resigned from the FNSP and his academic position after being accused of the sexual abuse of a minor. In mid-April 2021, French media, citing sources close to the investigation, reported that Duhamel had admitted to sexually abusing his stepson.
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Dominique de Villepin
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- diplomatlawyerwriterpoliticianinternational forum participant
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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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Jean Messiha
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- officialpolitician
- Biography
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Jean Messiha is an Egyptian-born French 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. Messiha stood as a candidate in the 2017 legislative election in the 4th constituency of the Aisne department.
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Valérie Trierweiler
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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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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Élodie Bouchez
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- film actoractor
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Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter 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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- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the film Syriana.
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Katalin Novák
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- politicianjuristeconomist
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Katalin Éva Veresné Novák is a Hungarian politician who is the current president of Hungary. 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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Jean-François Lyotard
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- teacherepistemologistliterary criticsociologistphilosopher
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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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- screenwriterfilm actoractortranslatorplaywright
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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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Anne Wiazemsky
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- film directornovelistscreenwriterfilm 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 executiveinternational forum participantpoliticianbusinessperson
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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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William Leymergie
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- journalistnews presentertelevision producertelevision 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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Frédéric Mitterrand
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- screenwriterradio personalityactorfilm actorfilm producer
- Biography
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Frédéric Mitterrand is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director.
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Jean-Louis Borloo
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- politicianlawyer
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Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was 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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- singeractorsongwriter
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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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Olivia Grégoire
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with licence in history
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Richard Malka
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- comics artistlawyer
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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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Cornelius Castoriadis
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1980 studied doctorate
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- university teachereconomistwriterpsychoanalystpsychologist
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Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.
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Olivier Besancenot
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- trade unionistmail carrierpolitician
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Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French left-wing 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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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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Étienne Chouard
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree in law
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- political activistteacher
- Biography
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Étienne Chouard is a French high school teacher, blogger, and political activist.
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Katherine Pancol
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- writerjournalist
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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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Éric Naulleau
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- essayistradio personality
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Éric Naulleau is a French literary critic, editor, essayist and columnist. He is best known for his appearances on television shows such as On n'est pas couché (2007–2011), hosted by Laurent Ruquier on Saturdays at 11 p.m. on France 2, Balance ton post! (2018–present), hosted by Cyril Hanouna on Thursdays at 9:15 p.m. on C8, as well as alongside Éric Zemmour on Zemmour et Naulleau (2011–2021), hosted by Anaïs Bouton on Wednesdays at 8:45 p.m. on Paris Première.
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Stéphane Freiss
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- film actortelevision writeractortelevision 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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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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Christophe Bourseiller
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied philosophy
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- film actorwriterradio personalityjournalistteacher
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Christophe Bourseiller is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began as a child actor and starred in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) in 1962 on his debut. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.
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Cheng Li-chun
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chun is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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Bernard de La Villardière
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Bernard Berger de La Villardière is a French journalist, radio and television presenter.
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Olivier Blanchard
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- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Olivier Jean Blanchard is a French economist and professor who currently serves as the Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2008, to September 8, 2015. Blanchard was appointed to the position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn; he was succeeded by Maurice Obstfeld. According to IDEAS/RePEc, he is one of the most cited economists in the world.
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Eva Illouz
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- writeruniversity teachersociologistdirector of studiescommunication scholar
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Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
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Brice Hortefeux
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- politician
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Brice Hortefeux is a conservative 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.
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Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Dominique Claudine Ouattara is the current First Lady of Ivory Coast, married to President Alassane Ouattara.
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Benjamin Stora
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- historianuniversity teachersociologist
- 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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- japanologistpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Bruno Gollnisch is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front (FN) far-right party. 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. 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 figure in France.
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Zoe Konstantopoulou
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- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Zoe Konstantopoulou is a Greek politician of the political left, who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from February to October 2015. Since 2016 she has been the president of the Course of Freedom.
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
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- screenwritertelevision actoractorfilm directortheatrical 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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Jean-Luc Marion
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- theologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Jean-Luc Marion is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy. Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, but also religion. God Without Being, for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida.
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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 6 December 2016 to 21 March 2017.
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Dominique Raimbourg
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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Philippe Descola
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- senior lectureruniversity teacheranthropologistdirecteur d'étudesprofessor
- 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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Philippe Delerm
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- writernovelistteacheressayistsports journalist
- 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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Georges Frêche
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- juristhistorianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- 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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Pierre Lellouche
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- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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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 4 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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Pierre Assouline
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- journalistliterary criticwriterbiographer
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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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Bernard Froit
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- sociologistuniversity teacher
- 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 teachersociologistanthropologist
- 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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Sylvie Germain
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
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- writerphilosopherteacher
- Biography
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Sylvie Germain is a French author.
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Abdelaziz Djerrad
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- university teacherpoliticianpolitical scientist
- 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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Chloé Delaume
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- novelistplaywrightwriterpublisher
- Biography
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Chloé Delaume is a French novelist, performer, musician, and occasional singer.
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Laurence Boone
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- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Laurence Boone is a French economist who served as the Secretary of State for European affairs in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.
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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
- historianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistopinion journalist
- 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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Danielle Simonnet
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- politicianschool counselor
- Biography
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Danielle Simonnet is a French politician from La France Insoumise. She was elected Member of Parliament for Paris's 15th constituency in the 2022 legislative election.
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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. 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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Jeanne Barseghian
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- juristenvironmentalistcorporate administrative and commercial executivepolitician
- 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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Stéphane Courtois
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- Director of Research at CNRShistorian
- 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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Françoise de Panafieu
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- 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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Jean-Noël Jeanneney
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France in political history
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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María Ángela Holguín
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- 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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Guillaume Martin
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2015 graduated with French masters degree
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Guillaume Martin is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.
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Philippe Augier
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- politiciananciens artisans, commerçants, chefs d'entreprisepensionerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Philippe Augier is a French politician. He is a member of the New Centre.
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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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Annette Wieviorka
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1991 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- art historianhistorian
- 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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Daniel Bensaïd
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- writeruniversity teacherschool teacherphilosopher
- 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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Gilles Boyer
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- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Gilles Boyer is a French politician of the Horizons party who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
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Caroline Mécary
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Caroline Mécary is a French lawyer as well as a politician of the Greens party (also known as Europe Écologie Les Verts or EELV) 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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Nathalie A. Cabrol
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- astrobiologistfreedivermountaineerauthorplanetary scientist
- 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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Jean-Jacques Aillagon
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- university teacherpoliticianofficial
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon is a French museum director and politician.
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Camille Pascal
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- historianwritercivil servantessayistofficial
- Biography
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Camille Pascal is a French writer and senior civil servant.
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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
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Aleksander August Pociej is a Polish lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (8th, 9th and 10th term) representing the constituency of Warsaw.
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Nathalie Élimas
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- politicianschool teacher
- Biography
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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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Sébastien Nadot
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with agrégation
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- politiciansport historianphysical education teacher
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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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Andreas D. Mavroyiannis
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with PhD in sociology in sociology
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Ambassador Andreas D. Mavroyiannis (Modern Greek: Ανδρέας Δ. Μαυρογιάννης; born 20 July 1956) is a Cypriot diplomat and politician, who previously served as Ambassador to the United Nations, in addition to several other diplomatic postings.
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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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- writercollection manageruniversity teachergroup activist
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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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Camille de Toledo
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- comics writersculptorfilm producerfilm screenwriterphotographer
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Camille de Toledo is a French writer and a visual artist.
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Serge Tisseron
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- caricaturistpsychiatristwriterpsychoanalystuniversity 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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Paulin Hountondji
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- Graduated with doctorate in France
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Paulin Jidenu Hountondji was a Beninese philosopher, politician and academic considered one of the most important figures in the history of African philosophy. From the 1970s onwards, he taught at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he was Professor of Philosophy. In the early 1990s he briefly served as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications in the Government of Benin.
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Alain Ehrenberg
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- Director of Research at CNRSsociologist
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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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- politicianconsultant
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Ludovic Chaker is a former diplomat and French 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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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, considered to be one of the most powerful positions in the country, from 2008 to 2011 for two consecutive cabinets in both Fuad Siniora and Saad Hariri's governments.
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Annie Cohen-Solal
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Algeria - Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherwriter
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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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Abdourahman Waberi
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- literary criticwriter
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Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic, and short-story writer from Djibouti.
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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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- radio personalityhistorianteacher
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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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François Cusset
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
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- university teacherhistorian
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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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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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Theano Fotiou
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- university teacherpoliticianarchitect
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Theano Fotiou is a Greek architect and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 to July 2019, she served as Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity in the First and Second Tsipras Cabinets.
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Manuel Pinho
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- economistpolitician
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Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho is a former Portuguese Minister of Economy and Innovation (2005–09) in the José Sócrates cabinet, who subsequently became an energy policy academic (2010–17) under circumstances that led to indictments in Portugal in 2017 and 2019, to house arrest since 2021, and to multiple charges of passive corruption, tax fraud, and money laundering in 2022. According to those charges, Pinho received, while in office, at least 4.5 million euros in secret monthly offshore payments from his prior and subsequent boss Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado whose Espírito Santo Financial Group benefited from several of Pinho's decisions as minister.
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Jean-Jacques Becker
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
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- assistant professorhistorianhigh school teacheruniversity teacher
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Jean-Jacques Becker was a French historian. A specialist of contemporary history, he was the brother of historian Annie Kriegel and father to World War I specialist Annette Becker.
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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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Marc Crépon
- Enrolled in Paris West University Nanterre La Defense
- In 1995 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has also translated works by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Franz Rosenzweig and Leibniz.
