Portraits

In over ten years as director of the Nancy campus, François Laval has certainly made his mark. Perhaps this is because he's always available, always active and always concerned about students' personal and academic development.

Florent Bonaventure, director of the Le Havre campus since 2013, is as fascinated by Asia as his students in the Europe-Asia programme. This committed, enthusiastic 36-year old history lecturer does his utmost to ensure his students can have a fulfilling student life as well as a first-class education.

Sciences Po alumnus Sunghan Kim has recently been named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. In his role as principal product owner at Coupang—the world's fastest growing e-commerce site, known as the "Amazon" of South Korea—he has developed a fraud detection system to identify reviewers not associated with sellers. Alongside Coupang’s founder, Sunghan Kim has helped turn the platform into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise within four years. Interview.

Romasha comes from Calcutta, Alleiah from Ahmedabad and Akhil from Hindupur. All three are outstanding students who could not have come to study in France or at Sciences Po without the various types of financial aid they receive. In this video, they talk about their life in France and their plans for the future. 

Hardy Hewson, a British student in his second year of the dual bachelor’s degree programme between Sciences Po and Columbia University, tells us about his experience on the Menton campus, from classes specialised in the Mediterranean and the Middle East to parties on the beach and playing rugby in the town where rests Webb Ellis, the sport’s founder.

In the run up to the French presidential election, the famous weekly Paris Match invited international students from the Sciences Po Undergraduate College to shed some light on the words that matter to them in politics. Lukas Hochscheidt, 19, a German student in the dual Bachelor's degree programme with Freie Universität Berlin on the Nancy campus, chose the word ‘ethics’.

Cyrille Nkontchou is an African leader committed to the development of his continent. A graduate from Sciences Po and Harvard, he was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006.

Siffrein Diana is in second year of Undergraduate College on the Reims campus. He shares his reasons for choosing Sciences Po: to be part of an international environment, gain a solid academic foundation, and be able to pursue his passion for the violin. And finally, to discover what he really likes so he can fulfil his potential. Interview.

Khasan Redjaboev is from Uzbekistan and a graduate of the dual degree programme between Sciences Po and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.

Gabriella Soriano has just started her first semester in the Middle East and Mediterranean programme on the Sciences Po campus in Menton. Gabriella wants to work to promote women's rights in the Middle East and, more generally, wherever gender inequality persists.The fifth in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Libertad Sobrado started volunteering with non-profit organisations when she was at high school in Costa Rica. She has been involved in various initiatives to help improve living conditions for local populations through recycling, environmental protection and education. Libertad looks at her studies at Sciences Po as a way to further her engagement. The fourth in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Alexander Stathopoulos comes from a mixed French and Greek background. As he starts his studies at Sciences Po, he is looking forward to meeting others with differing views in a context of free thinking and discussion. The third in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Rémicard Sérème, Haitian born and admitted to Sciences Po through the Equal Opportunity and Diversity programme, is determined not to let anyone put her into a box or dictate her professional future. The second in our series #FirstYearsScPo.

Yanhua Chen was born in a small city in China. She has just started her first year on the Le Havre campus in the dual Bachelor’s degree between Sciences Po and Columbia University. She tells us about her reasons for choosing the Sciences Po campus in Le Havre, and shares her expectations and dreams. The first in our web series #FirstYearsScPo.

Sébastien Hubier is a lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and at Sciences Po, and associate researcher at the University of Dijon. We talked to him about the very popular courses he teaches on the Reims campus.

Espace Numérique is an association of Sciences Po students keen to promote digital culture. Their website is full of computer tips and articles about the Internet and social networks. We met two members of the association, Alexia Toulmet and Tom Bry-Chevalier.

Anne-Sophie Roux is a student in the Master of Political Science programme at the Sciences Po Doctoral School. She has decided to take a gap year to pursue a unique personal project: in July 2016, she is leaving on an extended humanitarian-focused trip with the aim of reporting on populations affected by climate change.

All students at the Sciences Po Undergraduate College spend their third undergraduate abroad, either doing an internship or studying at one of Sciences Po’s 470 partner universities. David, Margaux, Gabriele and Guillaume told us about their experiences abroad.

At Sciences Po, all Undergraduate College students spend their third year abroad on an internship or at a partner university. Marion Vonfeld made an unusual choice; after studying transatlantic relations on the Reims campus for two years, she decided to spend her third year at Universidad Icesi in Cali, a city in western Colombia.

Martina Smuclerova has taught Public International Law at Sciences Po since 2011. This Sorbonne-educated international legal expert and Czech diplomat has previously served as a delegate to the United Nations, the European Union and the European Space Agency.  We asked her about her course.