2025-2026 in Review: PSIA Events

At the Paris School of International Affairs, we strive to provide a dynamic platform for debate. In 2025-26, PSIA has curated an exceptional events program which has enabled our students to engage with world-renowned experts, practitioners and academics.

To complement the diversity of our Master's programs, PSIA events addressed key global challenges including defense and security, trade and supply chains, climate governance, critical minerals, energy transitions, the financing of terrorism, information integrity, US foreign policy, and the financing of sustainable development. Some events have focused on specific geographic areas such as the Middle East, Sudan, Latin and North America, and Europe.

This year’s highlights include the 2025 PSIA Inaugural Lesson with Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission; Fireside chats with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Rebecca Grynspan as a candidate for UN Secretary‑General; 60 minutes exchange with each of Salomé Zourabichvili, Fifth President of Georgia, António Costa, President of the European Council and Tom Fletcher, UN Under‑Secretary‑General for Humanitarian Affairs; two high-profile panel discussions on the war in the Middle East.

Many of these events are recorded, and you can watch the replays by clicking on the links below. 

Fall 2025

• PSIA Inaugural lesson 2025 
• 60 minutes with Salvador Illa, President of the Government of Catalonia 
• Zombies, tsars and ghosts of the past: The return of the 19th century in geopolitics 
• Hungary, the European Union, and the New World Order – The Foreign Policy Perspectives of Hungary 
• Inequality and power shifts in the global economy 
• Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical Minerals 
• Geopolitics, Technology and Security: Governance Challenges in a Digital Era 
• Global health has a cost, but it is priceless 
• The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society 
• 60 minutos con Carolina Tohá, ex ministra del Interior de Chile 
• Under Pressure: Recalibrating the Future of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 
• What’s left of the Two-State Solution? Rethinking Peace, Land and Justice 
• Ten Years After Paris: Lessons Learned and the Road to COP30 
• Financing for Gender Equality and Feminist Foreign Policies: Innovation, Investments and Challenges 
• Trade, Supply chains, and Geopolitics: Policy and Practice 
• Building Human Capital Where It Matters Most: Homes, Neighborhoods, and Workplaces 
• 60 minutes with Imanol Pradales Gil, President of the Basque Government 
• European ambitions on defence and the transatlantic link. A Franco-German discussion 
• 60 minutes with Salomé Zourabichvili, Fifth President of Georgia 
• Les futurs de la santé mondiale post 2030 
• Paris Energy Week Day 1 - Geopolitics of Energy & World Energy Outlook 2025 
• Sovereign Debt and Global Finance: What future beyond the dollar? 
• The war in Ukraine: Ukrainian resilience and the geopolitical reality of war

Spring 2026

• Youth & Leaders Summit 2026  
• The “Trump corollary”: what the new US National Security Strategy means for China and Europe 
• Debates about Trade: Why Rhetoric trumps Reality 
• 60 minutes with Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator 
• The Geopolitics of the Digital Age: Europe's Defining Test 
• EU climate policy between green backlash and competitiveness: What next? 
• Trade in turbulence: What the US Supreme Court's tariff decision means for President Trump’s agenda and for Europe 
• Listen, Partner, Deliver: Financing and Governing Sustainable Development 
• Fireside chat with Alexander Gabuev, Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center 
• Forbidden Witnesses: Journalists and the Pursuit of Justice in post-Assad Syria 
• 60 minutes with António Costa, President of the European Council 
• The War in the Middle East: Power and Politics in a Changing Global Order 
• The armed conflict in Sudan: geopolitics, humanitarian crisis and international law 
• Fireside chat with Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications 
• Fireside chat with Lea Ypi, Indignity and historical injustice: the history of an Albanian family 
• Unpacking the EU-MERCOSUR Deal : EU's trade ambition, pushbacks and (geo)political realities 
• The scramble for critical minerals: financial challenges and opportunities for poor countries 
• Geopolitical shifts, economic and financial fragmentation. The era of restructurings 
• 60 minutes with Julie Dabrusin 
• Fireside chat with Rebeca Grynspan, candidate to the UNSG 
• Fireside chat with the Irish and French ministers for Europe: Thomas Byrne and Benjamin Haddad 
• 60 minutes with Ambassador Jameson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative 
• The UN efforts to address the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz 
• What Next for the Fight Against the Financing of Terrorism? 
• Munich Security Conference European Defense Town Hall