François Delattre, Honorary President - ENA

Consul General de France in New York François Delattre took up his position as Consul General of France in New York in August 2004. He was head of the French Embassy’s Press and Information Service in Washington from 1998 to 2002. In that capacity he was the Embassy’s spokesman to the media in the United States. A career diplomat, François Delattre was on the Foreign Policy Team of President Chirac from 1995 to 1998, with particular responsibility for security and defense issues. Before coming to New York, he was deputy chief of staff to the foreign minister. In his career at the French Ministry, which he joined in 1989, he has held posts at the French Embassy in Bonn and in the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament. He is also a former adviser to the French Foreign Minister (1993-1995). François Delattre holds a degree in international law and is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and the National School of Administration (ENA).

Etienne Ardant  -  Polytechnique ParisTech

Representing the Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech, Etienne Ardant works for Google in New York City. He graduated from Polytechnique and from Telecom ParisTech.

Elsa Berry - HEC Paris

Elsa Berry is the representative of HEC Paris on the board of the AAGEF (Association des Amis des Grandes Ecoles de France) and a member of its “Club des Dirigeants”. She is Managing Director, Head of Corporate Finance North America at BNP Paribas. Chairman of the Board of the Lycée Français de New York since 1999. Foreign Trade Advisor of France. Graduate from HEC (1980) and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Paris X (Nanterre).

Pierre Bismuth a effectué l'ensemble de sa carrière dans les ressources humaines, principalement au sein du Groupe Schlumberger dont il a été pendant 10 ans le Vice-Président chargé des RH. Il est profondément impliqué dans la politique de diversité H/F et culturelle. Actuellement il est un Senior Consultant pour Schlumberger Business Consulting et Président de NExT. Il préside un groupe de travail de la Commission Européenne sur l’intégration des femmes dans la science et la technologie. Pierre est diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique où il enseigne la GRH.

Emmanuelle Bommier - Ponts et Chaussées ParisTech

Emmanuelle Bommier is the representative of Ponts et Chaussées ParisTech on the board of the AAGEF.

Gilles Guillon - Supaéro

Gilles Guillon is a Vice-President with Credit Suisse Restructuring and Distressed Finance Group in New York. Gilles holds an MS in Rocket Science from ENSAE- Supaero and an MBA from The Wharton School. Gilles is the Head of ENSAE - Supaero Alumni Association in the U.S and Chair of the University Relations Committee of the Wharton Club of New York.

Clara Ingen-Housz - SciencesPo

President of Sciences Po. Alumni USA, Clara is a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where she specializes in antitrust and international arbitration. Prior to coming to New York, she worked at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels. A graduate of Paris II Pantheon-Assas and of SciencesPo., Clara holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, and is admitted to the New York and Paris Bars.

Hugues Lavandier - Centrale Paris

Represents the Ecole Centrale Paris and heads its alumni association in the U.S. Hugues Lavandier is a professional with McKinsey & Company. He also holds an engineering degree of the Technical University in Munich and a MBA from Columbia Business School.

Anne de Louvigny Stone - ESSEC

Anne de Louvigny Stone graduated from ESSEC and Sciences Po. She is Vice President, Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, servicing clients of French origin residing in the US, France, Belgium, UK and Switzerland. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 2000, Anne held several executive positions at American Express (New York) including Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategic Planning for the Foreign Exchange Services Division. Prior to American Express, she served three years at Eco-Emballages, in Paris, as Head of Strategic Planning, and five years as a consultant at Bain & Co. in London and Paris. Anne is President of the ESSEC Alumni Association and a Director and Vice President of the French American Chamber of Commerce, New York Chapter.

Jean-Hugues Monier - Centrale Lyon

Jean-Hugues Monier, diplôme de l'Ecole Centrale de Lyon (90), travaille chez McKinsey & Company Inc. à New York . Il est Président des centraliens de Lyon en Amérique du Nord

Jean-Yves Magnan - Mines ParisTech

Jean-Yves is a Director in the Corporate Strategy and M&A group of Citi, which he joined in 2006 after spending 5 years at Standard & Poor’s in New York. He started his career in the United States as a research associate in the applied mathematics department of Yale University, and is a graduate of the Ecole de Mines de Paris (P96).

Michel Perez - INSEAD 

Michel Perez est président de MAPI LLC, une société qu’il a fondée en 2002 pour promouvoir l’éducation et les échanges internationaux et est agent du groupe d’enseignement privé américain Kaplan. Après une carrière de trois décennies dans la banque internationale en France, Amérique Latine et aux États Unis, il a enseigné au Manhattan Institute of Management et est professeur a l'Alliance Francaise. Diplômé de Sciences Po Paris, de l’INSEAD et de la Fundacao Getulio Vargas de Sao Paulo, il demeure avec son épouse Louise a Larchmont (NY) depuis 1985.

Céline Perrot-Johnson - ESCP Europe

Céline represents the ESCP Europe business school at the AAGEF Board and is leading the team in charge of organizing events. Céline is Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning at Viacom which she joined in 1997 after having worked as an equity research analyst at Smith Barney. Céline earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1993 as well as a BA from ESCP-EAP in 1989. She is also a Certified Financial Analyst (since 2001). Céline and her husband live in New York City and have a 2 1/2 year old daughter named Océana.

Elisabeth Rotrou - Supélec

Elisabeth represents Supelec at the AAGEF Board. She graduated from Supelec and Georgia Tech, and now works as a consultant in the Infrastructure Solutions for Financial Services group at BearingPoint.

Marc-Albert Michaud -  EDHEC

Marc-Albert Michaud works in the Morgan Stanley Investment Management Global Risk and Analysis division. He holds a M.A. in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University (New York) and a Business Degree from EDHEC (Lille, France). He has been a controller at JP Morgan, a risk manager for Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank and joined the MSIM risk management team in 2005.

David Cohen-Boulakia - EM-Lyon 

Bio to come.

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