Alumni Award

Alexandra Amouyel, President and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation: “we’re showing everyone that there’s a different way to do business and capitalism”

Adriana Diaz, 2024 US Alumni Award Laureate: “We all need to challenge ourselves to understand other perspectives in this country”

On Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Ambassador of France Laurent Bili welcomed the Sciences Po American Foundation and our guests to the Résidence de France in Washington D.C.

The Sciences Po American Foundation will award the 2023 Alumni Award to Camille François (‘11). Members of the Sciences Po community are encouraged to join to recognize and honor Camille’s embodiment of the values that Sciences Po strives to uphold, while enjoying an opportunity to network and engage with fellow Alumni.

On June 13, at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., Jamieson Greer ('07) was awarded the 2022 US Sciences Po Alumni Award. This annual celebration is an opportunity to recognize and honor outstanding individuals, who embody the values that Sciences Po and our community strive to uphold.

My experience with Sciences Po started right here in this building. I was working in a legal office in Delaware for the summer, and there was one open day when my wife and I could come and get our student visas.

On June 3, the Sciences Po American Foundation honored Emilie Mazzacurati ('02), Global Head of Moody's Climate Solutions and Mike Schmuhl ('15), Chairman at Indiana Democratic Party and former presidential campaign manager for Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at the 2021 Alumni Award. The ceremony began with a conference on the Impact of Climate Change on the Midwest and beyond led by Sam Miles, the first laureate of the Michel David-Weill Scholarship and current PhD student at UC Berkley. The event concluded with networking sessions for Sciences Po alumni, who joined virtually from across the globe.

The Sciences Po American Foundation awarded Maëlle Gavet its annual alumni award during a reception earlier in May. Gavet is a 2002 graduate of the Sciences Po master's program, and Chief Operating Officer of Compass, a real estate technology company building an end-to-end platform for agents and their clients.

On June 17, 2015, the US Sciences Po hosted the 1st US Sciences Po Alumni Award Reception in New York and honored Hubert Joly (’83), chairman and CEO of Best Buy, the leading retailer of technology products, services and solutions, with approximately 1600 stores in North America and more than $40 billion in annual revenue.