Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust, as well as books on Mallarmé, Lacan, and psychoanalysis.
Charles Doherty Gonthier, was a Puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Canada from February 1, 1989, to August 1, 2003. He was replaced by Morris Fish.
Thomas Tlou was a Botswana academic and historian, and former representative of Botswana at the United Nations. Tlou was born in Gwanda in the then Southern Rhodesia in 1932.
The Ordre des Palmes académiques is a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities, education and science. Originally established in 1808 by Emperor Napoleon as a decoration to honour eminent members of the University of Paris, it was changed into its current form as an order of merit on 4 October 1955 by President René Coty, making it one of the oldest civil honours bestowed by the French Republic.
Yoshiyuki Sakaki is a Japanese molecular biologist. He was the sixth president of Toyohashi University of Technology and an emeritus professor of the University of Tokyo.
Avrelija Cencič was a Slovenian university professor, researcher in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology and immunology, manager and educator in health and life sciences.
Brian Nelson is a professor emeritus of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.
Michael John Worton is a British scholar of French. He was Vice-Provost (International) of University College London (UCL), appointed 1998. He held this appointment concurrently with the university's Fielden Professorship of French Language and Literature. He retired at the end of September 2013.
Anthony George Constantinides FREng FIET is a professor of signal processing and the founder of the Communications and Signal Processing Group of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Imperial College London. He has been actively involved with research in various aspects of digital filter design, digital signal processing, and communications for more than 40 years. Professor Constantinides' research spans a wide range of digital signal processing and communications, both from the theoretical as well as the practical points of view. His recent work has been directed toward the demanding problems arising in Financial signal processing and he now leads the Financial Signal Processing Lab in the EEE department of Imperial College London.
Jean-Louis Étienne is a French doctor, explorer and scientist. He is well known for his Arctic explorations, where he was the first man to reach the North pole alone in 1986, and his Antarctic explorations, including the famous 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
Gilles Cistac was a French-Mozambican lawyer specialised in constitutional law. He was shot and killed and political motives were suspected. The RENAMO party organised protests.
Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors. His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts. He is the author of the French translation of the Lotus Sūtra, seminal text of Mahayana 大乘, from the ancient Chinese text.
Wallace Kirsop is an eminent Australian scholar in French studies and in book trade history.
Michael O'Dwyer is an Irish academic who was awarded the Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques, for his services to French Literary Studies, by French Prime Minister François Fillon in 2010. Michael was born in 1947 in Ballyhaunis, county Mayo, he studied at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth gaining a BA degree, he completed further studies in Toulouse, earning an MA and University of Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle where he obtained his doctorate. Dr. O'Dwyer returned to Maynooth, lecturing in the French department, where he went on to serve as Department head. Dr. O'Dwyer also served as Dean of Arts, in Maynooth. He retired from lecturing in 2010.
Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-Leung, BBS, JP is the current President of the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He has presided over the institution since September 2013 before the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) was renamed EdUHK when the Chief Executive in Council granted the institute a university title.
Laurence Broze is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Lille in France. From 2012 to 2018 she was president of l'association femmes et mathématiques, a French association for women in mathematics.
Christian Soize is a French engineer and applied mathematician known for his contributions in computational mechanics and uncertainty quantification. He is Full Professor at the Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle at Gustave Eiffel University.
Camille Pascal is a French writer and senior civil servant.
