Portraits

The Emile Boutmy scholarship, named after the founder of Sciences Po, allows the best international students from outside of the European Union to study at Sciences Po. In 2015, the Emile Boutmy scholarship was awarded to 220 students from many backgrounds and countries of origin including Ghana, China, Egypt and the United States. Meet some of the talented recipients of this scholarship.

Meenakshi Raina is an Indian student enrolled in the Master of International Energy programme at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. She is passionate about sustainable development and climate change issues, and a keen participant in the Make It Work initiative.

Hélène Thiollet teaches international relations, comparative politics and migration studies at Sciences Po. Over the past ten years, her research has involved a lot of field work, and she has also worked as a consultant in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa for NGOs, International organisations and firms. She explains how the connection between research and policy-making practices influences her way of teaching.

Suthiwit Soisuwan is a second year undergraduate student from Thailand. He was able to study in France thanks to a scholarship from the Thai government, and he chose to enrol in the Sciences Po Middle-East and Mediterranean undergraduate programme on the Menton campus. He talks about his life in Menton and the people he has met in this small southern town, also known as “the pearl of France”.

Kana Sasagawa is a Japanese student who wants to change the world. This is one of the reasons she enrolled in the dual degree programme offered by Sciences Po and Keio University.

Meet Zhiheng Png, a 2010 Sciences Po alumnus.

Casey Floren is an undergraduate student from the University of Texas. She took advantage of an exchange programme with Sciences Po to enrol in one of the four certificate programmes offered on the Reims campus.

A portrait of Christian Dior, a Sciences Po student from 1923 to 1926.

Interview with Youstine Faltas, a new student in the Sciences Po-Columbia dual Bachelor degree programme.

Roxanne Kovacs is a graduate of the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). On 2 July 2015, she gave the Valedictorian speech at the 2015 Graduation Ceremony which was held at UNESCO. We interviewed this outstanding, lucky, passionate and optimistic student.

Three years before he could take the exam, Adama Gaye knew he wanted to study at Sciences Po. He enrolled in a Bachelor's degree programme at Sciences Po in 2009, followed on with a Master in Public Administration, and graduated in 2014. Now a Business Developer at Saint Gobain, Adama looks back on his time at Sciences Po.

Meet Zhiheng Png, a 2010 Sciences Po alumnus.

After studying at Sciences Po as an exchange student in the European Affairs Master programme, Sophie Hermanns applied for a PhD at the University of Cambridge. She was recently awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a prestigious scholarship given to outstanding students who demonstrate leadership potential and are committed to improving the lives of others. Interview.

We met Sandine Revet on the release of her new book, “Governing Disasters. Beyond Risk Culture,” which she co-edited with Julien Langumier for Palgrave. She is an anthropologist and has been a senior researcher at CERI since 2009. Revet had a leading role in this collaboration and it was first published in France in 2013 by Karthala. She focuses on the reality and challenges that come with the study of the 'government of disaster'.

Tina Rohner is a 2009 alumna from Sciences Po. She  currently works for the Asian Development Bank and was selected as part of the highly competitive Young Professionals Program. Tina shares some thoughts on her experience at the Master of Public Affairs and her career path.

With Ghassan Salamé, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po (PSIA), leaving to pursue other endeavours at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year, Frédéric Mion has chosen Enrico Letta as his successor. Dr Letta will take office on 1 September 2015.

Like all undergraduate Sciences Po students, Augustin is currently spending his third year abroad. He is taking advantage of this experience to complete an internship at the French Embassy. He tells us about his missions there, the Master’s degree programme he would like to enrol in next, and what he was able to do thanks to the Marion Bruley scholarship.

A 2007 graduate from the Sciences Po Doctoral School, Jonathan Gonzalez is today a content consultant at Gonzo Media, the press group he created in 2013 in Singapore, and an active member of the Singaporean art and underground scene.

Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org, the world's largest petition platform with more than 90 million users in 196 countries. He took part in the conference entitled “The Internet and Citizen Empowerment” organised on 13 April 2015 at Sciences Po. Interview.

An interview with Barbara Saden, who graduated from the Sciences Po Doctoral School with a Master in International Relations in May 2014. Her research “Punishing Syria: punishment in international relations” was awarded the Prize 2014-2015 from the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale. Although she holds a promising future as a researcher, she explains why she aims to become… a diplomat.