100 Notable alumni of
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
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The University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne is 96th in the world, 33rd in Europe, and 4th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carla Bruni
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- singer
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Carla Bruni-Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is an Italian and French singer, songwriter and former model who served as the first lady of France from 2008—when she married then president, Nicolas Sarkozy—to 2012.
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Jacques Derrida
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1980 graduated with doctorate in France in humanities
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- literary criticwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disowned the word "postmodernity".
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Audrey Fleurot
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Audrey Fleurot is a French actress. She is best known for playing the Lady of the Lake in Kaamelott, Joséphine Karlsson in Spiral and Hortense Larcher in Un village français. In 2011, she played Magalie in the international hit film The Intouchables.
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Suella Braverman
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Studied Master of Laws
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- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and again from 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she was chair of the European Research Group from 2017 to 2018 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2020 to March 2021, and again from September 2021 to 2022. She has been the MP for Fareham since 2015.
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Manuel Valls
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hollande.
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Laurent Wauquiez
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- ministerpolitician
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Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR), which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Boutros-Ghali was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt between 1977 and 1979. He oversaw the United Nations over a period coinciding with several world crises, including the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan genocide.
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Yōichi Masuzoe
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- tarentolyricistpoliticianpolitical scientist
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Yōichi Masuzoe is a Japanese politician who was elected to the position of governor of Tokyo in 2014 and resigned in June 2016 due to the misuse of public funds. He was previously a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and the Japanese Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Before entering politics, he became well known in Japan as a television commentator on political issues.
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Bernadette Chirac
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- politician
- Biography
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Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac.
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1974 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
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- diplomatpoliticianofficial
- Biography
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira de Mello Medal to honor his legacy in promoting sustainable peace, international security and better living conditions for individuals in situations of armed conflict, challenges to which Sérgio Vieira de Mello had dedicated his life and career.
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Alan García
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- writerlawyerpoliticiansociologistjurist
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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and to date the only party member ever to have served as President. Mentored by the founder of the APRA, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was subsequently elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide victory at the age of 35 years.
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Fred Vargas
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- novelistauthorhistorianarchaeologist
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Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
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Jean-Michel Blanquer
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- juristcivil servantpoliticianprofesseur des universités
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Jean-Michel Blanquer is a French jurist and government official serving as Minister of National Education under Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2017 to 2022.
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Arnaud Montebourg
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- politicianentrepreneurlawyer
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Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who served as the Minister of Industrial Renewal from 2012 to 2014, then as Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal, and Digital Affairs, 31 March 2014 until his resignation on 25 August.
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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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Juan Branco
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- essayistlawyer
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Juan Branco is a French and Spanish lawyer, political activist and writer.
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Alpha Condé
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- politicianwriterinternational forum participant
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Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021.
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Myriam El Khomri
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- ministerpoliticianlawyer
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Myriam El Khomri is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2015 to 2017.
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Sonia Mabrouk
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- journalistpunditradio personalitytelevision presenter
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Sonia Mabrouk is a Tunisian-born journalist who in 2010 obtained French nationality. After first embarking on an academic career in Tunisia, in 2005 she turned to journalism, writing for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2009, she was engaged by the French parliamentary television channel Public Sénat and later hosted political programmes on the radio station Europe 1. In 2017, Mabrouk published her first book Le monde ne tourne pas rond, ma petite-fille.
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Norman Thavaud
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- YouTuberstand-up comediantelevision produceractorcomedian
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Norman Jacky Cyril Thavaud also known as the channel name Norman fait des vidéos (Norman makes videos), is a French comedian and blogger known for his short comic YouTube videos. Several of his videos have been viewed tens of millions of times.
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Élisabeth Badinter
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- docenthistorianwomen's rights activistphilosopher
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Élisabeth Badinter is a French philosopher, author and historian.
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Laurence Ferrari
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- journalistwriternews presenter
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Laurence Ferrari is a French journalist, best known as a former anchor of the TF1 weekday evening news Le 20H. She also works for Europe 1 sometimes.
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Ali Bongo Ondimba
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- lawyerinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
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Ali Bongo Ondimba, also known as Ali Bongo and Ali Ben Bongo, is a Gabonese former politician who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023. He is a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party. He is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. During his father's presidency, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1991, represented Bongoville as a deputy in the National Assembly from 1991 to 1999, and was the Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2009. After his father's death, he won the 2009 Gabonese presidential election. He was reelected in 2016, in elections marred by numerous irregularities, arrests, human rights violations, and post-election protests and violence.
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Caroline Fourest
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- journalistfilm directorwriterwomen's rights activist
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Caroline Fourest, is a French feminist writer, film director, journalist, radio presenter at France Culture, and editor of the magazine ProChoix. She was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo, for Le Monde until 14 July 2012, and she joined Marianne in 2016.
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Régis Debray
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1993 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
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- writerteacherofficialphilosopherjournalist
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Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.
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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, often known by his initials IBK, was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020, when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian coup d'état. He served as Mali's prime minister from February 1994 to February 2000 and as president of the National Assembly of Mali from September 2002 to September 2007.
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Jeanne Balibar
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- actor
- Biography
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Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.
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Martine Aubry
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- Grands corps de l'Etatpoliticiananciens cadres
- Biography
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Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste, or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001; she is also the first woman to hold this position. Her father, Jacques Delors, served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.
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Érik Orsenna
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- economistacademicwriterpolitician
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Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member (currently on leave) of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
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Alexander Stubb
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- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who is the president-elect of Finland, having won the 2024 presidential election. He previously served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
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Gérard Leclerc
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Studied in 1970-1975
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- journalistnews presenteraircraft pilotradio personality
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Gérard Leclerc was a French journalist.
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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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François-Xavier Demaison
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- stand-up comedianstage actorfilm actoractorcomedian
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François-Xavier Demaison is a French actor and humorist.
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Nicole Belloubet
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in public law
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- lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjuristacademy rector
- Biography
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Nicole Belloubet is a French jurist and politician who has been serving as Minister of National Education in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 2024.
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Jean Sarkozy
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- local politician
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Jean Nicolas Brice Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa is the son of the former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. Jean is a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and registered as a first-year law student at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 2007. He is a backroom activist for his father's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a center-right party.
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Mathieu Gallet
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- business executiveprivate secretary
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Mathieu Gallet is a French senior civil servant and political advisor. He was the chief executive of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel from 2010 to 2014. He was the CEO of Radio France from 2014 to 2018. In 2019, he launched Majelan, a podcast distribution and production platform.
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André Comte-Sponville
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France in history of philosophy
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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André Comte-Sponville is a French philosopher.
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Olivier Faure
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- politician
- Biography
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Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group (French: Groupe Nouvelle Gauche), the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly, from December 2016 to April 2018.
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Enrique Dussel
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with doctorate in history
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- historianchurch historianuniversity teachertheologianphilosopher
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Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to 2014.
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Giorgos Seferis
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- poettranslatorwriterdiplomat
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Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiadis (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13 [O.S. February 29] 1900 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.
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Caroline Vigneaux
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with French masters degree
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- lawyerfilm directorscreenwriterhumoristactor
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Caroline Vigneaux,, is a French comedian.
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Dominique Desseigne
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- business executivebusinessperson
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Dominique Desseigne is a French businessperson. He is the chief executive of Groupe Lucien Barrière.
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Michèle Alliot-Marie
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- diplomatpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007), the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011); she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010), and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
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Danièle Obono
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- librarianpolitician
- Biography
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Danièle Obono is a far-left Gabonese-French politician who has represented the 17th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly since 2017. A member of La France Insoumise (FI), she was reelected in the first round of the 2022 legislative election.
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Irakli Garibashvili
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- entrepreneurpoliticiancivil servantbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Irakli Garibashvili is a Georgian politician and a former business executive who served as the prime minister of Georgia between 22 February 2021 and 29 January 2024. He had previously served as prime minister from 20 November 2013 until his resignation on 30 December 2015. Garibashvili is a member of the Georgian Dream party and has served as the party's chairman since 1 February 2024. He entered politics with his long-time associate Bidzina Ivanishvili, in October 2012.
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Abdou Diouf
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- politicianlawyer
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Abdou Diouf is a Senegalese politician who was the second President of Senegal, in office from January 1981 to April 2000.
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Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
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- tennis playerofficial
- Biography
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Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is a French businesswoman and former professional tennis player who has been serving as Minister of Youth, Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal since May 2022.
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Jean Mermoz
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- politicianaircraft pilotpoet
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Jean Mermoz was a French aviator, viewed as a hero by other pilots such as Saint-Exupéry, and in his native France, where many schools bear his name. In Brazil, he also is recognized as a pioneer aviator.
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Achille Mbembe
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
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- historianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistphilosophernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe, is a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
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Guillaume Peltier
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- cadrepolitician
- Biography
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Guillaume Peltier is a French politician, former teacher and business leader who represented the 2nd constituency of the Loir-et-Cher department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. He has also served in the Departmental Council of Loir-et-Cher for the canton of Chambord since 2021. Peltier is a member of the far-right political party Reconquête.
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Didier Eribon
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with habilitation à diriger des recherches in sociology
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- university teachersociologistopinion journalistwriterresearch fellow
- Biography
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Didier Eribon is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life. He lives in Paris.
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Vincent Peillon
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1992 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianresearch fellow
- Biography
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Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon is a French politician who served as Minister for Education in the French Government. He is a longstanding French politician and, from 2014 until 2019, served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West France (allied with the Socialist Party and the Party of European Socialists).
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Julia Cagé
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- economist
- Biography
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Julia Cagé is a French economist specializing in development economics, political economy, and economic history.
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with habilitation à diriger des recherches
- Occupations
- philosophersociologist
- Biography
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French philosopher and sociologist.
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Jean Ping
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Jean Ping is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as Chair of the African Union Commission from 2008 to 2012. Born to a Chinese father and Gabonese mother, he is the first individual of Chinese descent to lead the executive branch of the African Union.
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Mathias Vicherat
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- official
- Biography
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Mathias Vicherat is a French civil servant and director of Sciences Po since 22 November 2021.
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Christophe Bourseiller
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 2019 graduated with doctorate in France in contemporary history
- Occupations
- film actorwriterradio personalityjournalistteacher
- Biography
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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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Chantal Jouanno
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- politiciankarateka
- Biography
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Chantal Jouanno is a French politician who served as Minister of Sports in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 and 26 September 2011, succeeding to Roselyne Bachelot and being replaced by David Douillet, before taking office as senator on 1 October 2011. She was a close ally of president Sarkozy and former president of ADEME.
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Harlem Désir
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- politician
- Biography
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Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir is a French politician. First widely known as a community activist and as the first president of SOS Racisme in the 1980s, he subsequently entered politics in the 1990s, first in Génération Écologie then in the Socialist Party where he rose to the rank of First Secretary. He served as MEP from 1999 to 2014 and then served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017, he has served as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
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Sébastien Demorand
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- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Sébastien Demorand was a French journalist and food critic.
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Karim Sanjabi
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- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Karim Sanjabi was an Iranian politician of National Front.
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Abdullah Ensour
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- politician
- Biography
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Abdullah Ensour is a Jordanian economist who served as the 40th Prime Minister of Jordan between October 2012 and May 2016. A veteran politician, he has held various cabinet positions in Jordanian government in addition to being prime minister.
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Jamie McCourt
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Jamie D. McCourt is the former United States Ambassador to France and Monaco who served from 2017 to 2021. She was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on November 2, 2017. Ambassador McCourt is also the United States Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe. McCourt is the founder and CEO of Jamie Enterprises and a former executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She became the highest-ranking woman in Major League Baseball, appointed first as vice chairman of the Dodgers in 2004, then president in 2005, and finally CEO in 2009.
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Thomas Porcher
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- economistteacher
- Biography
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Thomas Porcher is a French economist and author. He is a member of the heterodox association of economists called Économistes atterrés.
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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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Guillaume Faye
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Graduated with Master of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- political theoristlecturerpolitical activistuniversity teacherjournalist
- Biography
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Guillaume Faye was a French political theorist, journalist, writer, and leading member of the French New Right.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas is a French politician. He was minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017. He represented Finistère's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2016, as a member of the Socialist, radical, citizen and miscellaneous left.
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André Santini
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in private law
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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André Santini is a French politician and current mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
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Sébastien Bazin
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- business executivebusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Sébastien Bazin is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of AccorHotels (Euronext: AC; LSE: 0H59). As CEO of Accor, he has committed to the UN's HeForShe campaign that seeks to promote women's and men's rights by pledging to reach parity in pay and equality between genders by 2020.
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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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Cristovam Buarque
- Occupations
- university teacherwritereconomistpoliticianmechanical engineer
- Biography
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Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque is a Brazilian university professor and member of Cidadania. He was a senator for the Federal District from 2003 to 2019.
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Javad Tabatabai
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France in political science
- Occupations
- translatoruniversity teachernon-fiction writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Seyyed Javad Tabatabai was an Iranian philosopher and political scientist. He was Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran.
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Uwe Timm
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- children's writerwriterscreenwriterpoetautobiographer
- Biography
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Uwe Timm is a German writer.
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Nicole Bacharan
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- columnistresearcherhistorianlecturerwriter
- Biography
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Nicole Bacharan is a French historian and political scientist specializing in American society and French-American relations. She is a researcher with the National Foundation for Political Science (Sciences Po) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California from 2013 to 2014.
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Cecilia Malmström
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- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Anna Cecilia Malmström is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and Minister for European Union Affairs from 2006 to 2010. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden from 1999 to 2006.
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Denise Bombardier
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1974 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- writertelevision presentersociologistpolitical scientistjournalist
- Biography
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Denise Bombardier was a Canadian journalist, essayist, novelist and media personality who worked for the French-language television network Radio-Canada for over 30 years.
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Michelle Perrot
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- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Michelle Perrot is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.
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Salhia Brakhlia
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- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Salhia Brakhlia is a French political journalist. She has contributed to television programs on Canal +, BFM TV, TMC (for the Quotidien program) and France Info since 2020.
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Richard Orlinski
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- sculptormusiciandisc jockey
- Biography
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Richard Orlinski is a French sculptor and visual neo-pop artist.
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Laurence Rossignol
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Laurence Rossignol is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2017, representing Oise. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Secretary of State for the Family, Senior Citizens and Autonomy in the governments of Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
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Pierre Lévy
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1980 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriterscreenwriteradjunct professor
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Pierre Lévy is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.
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Anaïs Bouton
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- journalist
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Anaïs Martine Marie Bouton is a French journalist and television presenter (with the RTL Group television broadcaster).
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Jorge Castañeda Gutman
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- university teacherinternational forum participanteconomistdiplomathistorian
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Jorge Castañeda Gutman is a Mexican politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000–2003).
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Joseph Oughourlian
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- financierentrepreneurbusinessperson
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Joseph Oughourlian, is a French financial entrepreneur and businessman of Lebanese – Armenian origin. Founder of the activist fund Amber Capital, he invests in companies whose management he then seeks to influence.
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Mohamed Ennaceur
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Mohamed Ennaceur is a Tunisian politician who served as the acting president of Tunisia for 91 days, from President Beji Caid Essebsi's death on 25 July 2019 until he handed over the presidency to Kais Saied as the winner of the 2019 Tunisian presidential election on 23 October 2019. Since 2014, he has also been the President of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People and leader of the governing Nidaa Tounes party. Previously, he served as Minister of Social Affairs in the 1970s and 1980s under President Habib Bourguiba and again in 2011 in the transitional Ghannouchi and Essebsi governments.
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Luc Chatel
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- politician
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Luc-Marie Chatel is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as Minister of National Education in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from June 2009 to May 2012. In 2014, he served as the acting chair of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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Delphine O
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Studied public administration
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- administratorentrepreneurpolitician
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Delphine O is a French politician and a former member of the French National Assembly, who represented Paris. She is the Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum 2021.
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Pierre Laurent
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- producerjournalistpolitician
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Pierre Laurent is a French politician and journalist. Ex-director of L'Humanité, and former leader of the French Communist Party (PCF).
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Patrick Boucheron
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- historianuniversity teacherradio personality
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Patrick Boucheron is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He is a professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of 12 books and or the editor of 5 books. His 2017 book, Histoire mondiale de la France (Global History of France), compiled work by 122 historians and became an unexpected bestseller, with more than 110 000 copies sold. From 2017 to 2020, he hosted Quand l'histoire fait dates, a TV program of 22 episodes which explored different important dates in world history.
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Hervé Gaymard
- Occupations
- politicianGrands corps de l'Etat
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Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of The Republicans conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005.
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Theodoros Pangalos
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Studied in 1965-1969
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianeconomist
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Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek politician and leading member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He served as the deputy prime minister of Greece, responsible for the coordination of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) and the new Economic & Social Policy Committee from 2009 to 2012.
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Axelle Lemaire
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Axelle Lemaire is a French former Socialist politician who served as a Deputy for the Third constituency for French overseas residents in the National Assembly of the French Parliament, for which she was elected in 2012.
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Krzysztof Warlikowski
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- artistic directoropera directortheatrical director
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Krzysztof Warlikowski is a Polish theatre director. He is the creator and artistic director of Nowy Teatr (New Theatre) in Warsaw.
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Karim Wade
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- politician
- Biography
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Karim Meïssa Wade is a Senegalese politician who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of State for International Cooperation, Regional Development, Air Transport, and Infrastructure from May 2009 to April 2012. He is the son of Abdoulaye Wade, who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. Before joining the government, Karim Wade was President of the National Agency for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (Agence Nationale de l'Organisation de la Conférence Islamique, ANOCI) and served as an advisor to his father. He was widely seen as a possible successor to his father as president, and his father was widely believed to be grooming him for the position.
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Jean-Marie Le Guen
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- bankerpolitician
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Jean-Marie Le Guen is a French physician, public health expert and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 1997 until 2014, representing the 13th arrondissement of Paris. From 2014 until 2016, he served as Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
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Sylvie Bermann
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- diplomat
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Sylvie-Agnès Bermann is a French former career diplomat who served as the ambassador of France to the United Kingdom, ambassador of France to Russia, and as French ambassador to China in Beijing from 2011 until 2014. She previously served as director for United Nations, International Organizations, Human Rights and Francophony at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development in Paris.
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Henri Weber
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henri Weber was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
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Joël Guerriau
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- politician
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Joël Guerriau is a French banker and centre-right politician. A senator for Loire-Atlantique, Guerriau is a secretary of the French Senate and vice-chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces. He was first elected to the Senate in 2011, then reelected in 2017 and 2023. He sits with The Independents – Republic and Territories group (LIRT).
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Benoist Apparu
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- permanent politicianpolitician
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Benoist Apparu is a French politician of The Republicans who served as Secretary of State for Housing under the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, in the François Fillon III government, and a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Marne department,
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Ericka Bareigts
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- cadres de la fonction publiquepoliticianlawyer
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Ericka Bareigts is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Overseas France in the governments of successive Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve from 30 August 2016 to 10 May 2017. She was a member of the National Assembly from 2012 until 2016 and from 2017 until 2020. Since 4 July 2020 she has been serving as Mayor of Saint-Denis, Réunion.
