As part of the Horizon 2020 COESO Project, Jessica Pidoux is conducting a postdoctoral research at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). She presents her multifaceted background and shares her experience as a young researcher.

This article was originally published in December 2017.

This article was originally published in August 2017. Lukas Drammeh was born in Hamburg, Germany, and has lived in multiple countries in West Africa. He attended the Sciences Po Campus of Reims, where he pursued the Europe-Africa programme. Former president of the BDE (Bureau des Élèves) and captain of the Europe-Africa basketball team, Lukas is about to embark on his third year abroad, during which he will matriculate to UNC Chapel Hill in the United States. 

45 days, 4 countries, 2,500 kilometres – and all of it by bike... Angèle Paty, a former student of the Europe–North America programme on the Sciences Po Reims Campus has set herself a major challenge. After her third year abroad at the University of St Andrews came to an abrupt and unfortunate end due to the pandemic, Paty launched the project SAORSA, meaning “freedom” in Scottish Gaelic. She has made it her mission to return to Scotland by cycling all the way to the Shetland Islands from her hometown of Montpellier – on her own, on muscle power alone. We asked her a few questions before she set off.

Fitting more broadly into the field of study on political parties and their transformations, Arthur Borriello's current work focuses on contemporary populist movements and more particularly on Podemos (Spain), the 5 Star Movement (Italy) and the France Insoumise (France).

From the Master in Public Policy, dual degree at Sciences Po and HEC, to Associate Consultant at Nordmann

From the Master in Public Policy to consultant at YCE

From the Master in Public Policy, Culture stream, dual degree with the École du Louvre, apprenticeship programme, to Director of Museums for the town of Villefranche-sur-Mer

From the Master in Public Policy, Public Administration stream, to Foreign Affairs Adviser at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

From the dual Master in European Affairs with the London School of Economics, to consultant at YCE partners

From the Master in Public Policy to Public Affairs Manager at Ulterïa

Stijn Gabriel has graduated from the Master in International Security. He works as a Project Development & Reporting Officer at the International Organization for Migration’s office in Niger.

From the Master in Public Policy, Cultural Policy and Management stream, to the position of Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

From the Master in Public Policy, Public Administration stream, to consultant at YCE Partners

From the Master in Public Policy, Public Administration stream, to magistrate at the Paris Administrative Court

Carol Sirou is an independent board member, the founder and CEO of Safineia Advisors, a boutique consulting practice, and a Sciences Po alumna.

Etienne is a 2018 Alumni from the Marketing and Society Master's programme. He now works as Consumer and Marketing Knowledge at Ubisoft.

Robert McNamara is a Partner Guidehouse, a global strategy, management, and technology consulting firm, and leads the Business and IT Strategy Practice. As an MBA student at the University of Chicago, Mr. McNamara studied abroad in an exchange program with Sciences Po. “I never had the opportunity during my undergraduate degree to study abroad,” he says, “so I really wanted to do so before beginning the next phase of my career and Sciences Po had an outstanding program.” One of his concentrations was in International Business, so the program “helped fulfill by my intellectual interest, as well as, academic requirements.”

Patricia Wu is Vice President and Managing Director at Crowell & Moring International, a global government affairs and public policy consulting firm. As an undergraduate student, she spent a year abroad at Sciences Po studying international relations and affairs.

Jonathan Silver is an executive with a history of success investing in the clean economy, a senior advisor to multiple large firms in clean economy sector, and an alum of Science Po’s Certificat d’Etudes Politiques (CEP) program. After graduating from Harvard with a major in government, Silver was awarded a MacArthur Rotary Graduate Fellowship to study in France. “I chose Sciences Po because the school specialized in the areas of study I was interested in,” he says.

Louis Mark is a senior program consultant at Anthesis Group, a consulting group focusing on sustainability. He joined the Sciences Po Master’s Degree in Energy Economics in the fall of 2016, after spending time researching in China. “The year before I started was a pivotal moment for climate,” he says, “and I was already doing some research in China at the time. My focus was on air pollution, displacement of indigenous people, and energy infrastructure.” When the Paris agreement was signed in April 2016, Mark felt even more compelled to continue his studies in climate.

Abel Mavura is the founder and director of Marvel Act Youth Organisation in Paris, France. He is a graduate in Advanced Global Studies (Development Practice) His advice to other students is that, when you learn to get the paper, instead learn so that you can put what you learnt into practice.

Benjamin Haddad is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, and he has always had an interest in international politics, stemming from his time as a student at Sciences Po.

From the Master in Public Policy, Social Policy and Social Innovation stream, to consultant at YCE partners