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A few of the eminent figures among Sciences Po's 54,000 alumni:
Jacques Attali | Former adviser to François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic & Former Chairman of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
Nicole Bacharan | Political expert |
Raymond Barre | Former Prime Minister |
Jean Louis Beffa | Former Chairman & CEO of Saint Gobain |
Alexandre Benmakhlouf | Former Attorney-General with the Paris Appeal Court |
Íngrid Betancourt | Former Colombian MP and senator |
Nicolas Beytout | Chairman & CEO of the Les Échos Group (LVMH) |
Paul Biya | President of the Republic of Cameroon |
Christian de Boissieu | Academic and economist |
Paul Bremer | US diplomat & Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Former UN Secretary General |
Michel Camdessus | Former Chairman of the International Monetary Fund |
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse | Historian and member of the Académie Française |
Jean Claude Casanova | Former adviser to Raymond Barre, Prime Minister, Economist |
Jacques Chaban Delmas | Former Prime Minister, Former Mayor of Bordeaux & Former President of the National Assembly |
Jacques Chirac | Former President of the French Republic |
Charles de Croisset | Member of the Inspection Générale des Finances (Treasury) & Former Chairman & CEO of Crédit Commercial de France |
Ibrahim Daher | Former Lebanese Minister of Administrative Development |
Bao Dai | Last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnam) |
Pierre de Coubertin | Historian & Former Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) |
Michel Debré | Former Prime Minister |
Christian Dior | Couturier |
Hugues Gall | Former Director of the Opéra National de Paris |
Božidar Đelić | Vice-Prime Minister & Minister for Science and Technological Development (Serbia) |
Léo Ferré | Poet, musician and singer |
Julien Gracq | Writer |
Stanley Hoffmann | Professor of political science at Harvard University |
François Hollande | President of the French Republic |
Lionel Jospin | Former Prime Minister |
Serge Klarsfeld | Writer, historian and barrister |
Pascal Lamy | Director-General of the World Trade Organisation |
François Mitterrand | Former President of the French Republic |
Mohammed Mossadegh | Former Prime Minister of Iran |
Laurence Parisot | Chairwoman of MEDEF (employers' federation) |
Matthieu Pigasse | Businessman & Former Deputy Director of the Office of Minister Laurent Fabius |
Guillaume Pepy | Chairman of the SCNF |
Georges Pompidou | Former Prime Minister |
Marcel Proust | Writer |
Rainier III de Monaco | Prince of Monaco |
Michel Rocard | Former Prime Minister |
Charles Rizk | Former Minister of Tourism and Information, Lebanon |
Augustin de Romanet | Chief Executive Officer of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations |
Philippe Seguin | Former minister, Former President of the National Assembly & Former President of the Cour des Comptes (Auditor-General's Department) |
Ernest Antoine Seillière | Former Chairman of MEDEF (employers' federation) |
Jean Michel Severino | Former Managing Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) |
Anne Sinclair | Journalist |
Daniel Toscan du Plantier | Film producer |
Pierre Elliot Trudeau | Former Prime Minister of Canada |
Pierre Vimont | French Ambassador to the United States of America |
Serge Weinberg | Businessman |
Dominique Schnapper | Sociologist |
Jean-Cyril Spinetta | Chairman of Air France-KLM |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund & Former minister |
Simone Veil | Former minister, Former member of the Conseil Constitutionnel & Member of the Académie Française |
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