Portraits

Meet Louai Allani, a second-year student at Sciences Po's Undergraduate College in Menton.

From private to public sector, the lively path of Virginie Vial, a 1996 graduate of Sciences Po's Urban School.

Meet the new Chairholder of Sciences Po's European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition

Two Sciences Po students relate their experience as ambassadors of the “Climate x” pilot.

A 2008 graduate, she recounts the academic and professional path which led her to Haiti, where she now works for the United Nations.

A 2022 graduate of the School of Public Affairs, Marcio Boka chose the path of entrepreneurship.

We met Yann Schreiber a few years ago when he was finalising his Master’s degree in Journalism and International Affairs. He had just received several prizes from the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists.

For the third year of her Bachelor's degree - and before joining the dual master's degree in Corporate and Public Management offered by Sciences Po and HEC Paris - Mariama Dalanda Sow chose to do an academic exchange at the prestigious Strathmore Business School in Nairobi. The 21-year-old student tells us about her experience and her desire to use it to make an impact in Guinea, her home country.

Kenya native Alex Mutura is a student in Sciences Po's Europe-Africa undergraduate program, majoring in economics and societies. Last year – despite the ongoing pandemic – Mutura embarked on a five-month academic exchange at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University. He shares his experience below.

Ever since she was a child, Racheal Lawrence has dreamed of contributing to the development of her country: Nigeria. Today, as a graduate of the Paris School of International Affairs’ Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, she is pursuing this goal by working to enable the education of future generations of Nigerians. Meet this ambitious and socially involved alumna.

This stand-out Sciences Po student has been working across languages, cultures, and borders to make a difference, all while earning her Master's degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po’s School of International Affairs (PSIA).

Taiwanese-American director Feng-I Roan studied abroad at Sciences Po from 2011 to 2012. As time has gone on, she has built an impressive portfolio of films–from shorts to feature-length films–that draw from her own experiences in both the United States and Taiwan and engage with what it is to be a sister, a mother, and a woman.

Graduated in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) in June 2021, with the Summa Cum Laude honors, Annina Claesson works as a Consultant at UNESCO’s Section for Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, under the organization’s Communication and Information sector. Interview with a brilliant Alumna. 

An unprecedented occurrence: Cambridge’ prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—globally recognized for their programs in hard sciences (scientific and technological research)—backed the application of Grace Moore, one of their students, for the Michel David-Weill Scholarship. Hear more from the promising recipient. 

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.

In this Q&A, we interview Alexis Cheney, an American student in the first year of a dual Master’s degree programme between Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She shares her experiences taking virtual classes and studying in Paris during a lockdown. 

Anass Mourjane arrived at Sciences Po as an undergraduate student on our Paris campus in 2010. Involved in a multitude of associations and student clubs on campus, he was active in politics during his student years and chose to pursue his master’s at the School of Public Affairs.