The Paris Institute of Political Studies,also known as Sciences Po or Sciences Po Paris,is a private research university located in Paris,France,that holds the status of grande école and grand établissement. The institute has decentralized campuses in Dijon,Le Havre,Menton,Nancy,Poitiers and Reims,each with their own academic program focused on a geopolitical part of the world. Sciences Po historically specialized in political science and history,then it progressively started to expand to other social sciences such as economics,law and sociology.
Instituts d'études politiques,or IEPs,colloqually referred to as Sciences Po,are ten publicly owned institutions of higher learning in France. They are located in Aix-en-Provence,Bordeaux,Grenoble,Lille,Lyon,Paris,Rennes,Strasbourg and Toulouse,and since 2014 Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Their vocation is the study and research of contemporary political science. All students at the IEPs study a curriculum that is highly practical and broad-based,focusing on the full range of the social sciences across law,economics,finance,and management. These schools are considered as some of the most selective in France,mainly because they are the place where many political and business leaders are trained.
The Institut d'Études politiques de Lyon also known as Sciences Po Lyon,is a grande école located in Lyon,France. It is one of ten Institutes of Political Studies in France,and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle's provisional government following the model of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. It is located at the Centre Berthelot within the buildings of a former military health college and operates as an autonomous institution within the University of Lyon. It is the first Institute of Political Studies to have joined the prestigious Conférence des Grandes écoles.
The Institut de veille sanitaire was a French public establishment of the Health minister. It was merged in 2016 with other health agencies into the Agence nationale de santépublique .
Dominique Reynié is a French academic. He is a professor of political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Franck Goldnadel is a French public servant and former director of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Frédéric Mion is a French civil servant,and former director of Sciences Po. Formerly,he was Secretary-General of Canal+.
Thierry Lataste is a senior French civil servant.
Bernard Boucault is a French public official. He was previously director of the École nationale d'administration. He was head of the Paris police from 2012 until 2015. He has been involved in several high-profile police actions,involving protestors in 2013 and the Football Championship of France concerning Paris Saint-Germain F.C. in 2013.
Marc Fontecave is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry,he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris,where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes.
Jean-Claude Casanova is a French economist,educator and public intellectual with a lifetime involvement in French civic life. He was the chairman of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques between 2007 and 2016. A centrist in politics,he cofounded the journal Commentaire with Raymond Aron in 1978,and since then has been its editor and publisher (directeur).
Adolphe Steg was a Czechoslovak-born French urologist and Holocaust survivor.
The Institute forStrategic Research,known by its French acronym IRSEM,is a research institute of the French Ministry of Armed Forces. Located in the complex of buildings of the École militaire,it has a staff of around forty people. It was managed from 2009 to 2015 by Frédéric Charillon and from 2016 to 2022 by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer. Fully financed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces,IRSEM is an independent part of the ministry.
Alain Barrau was a French politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS).
The Direction générale du Trésor is the flagship Directorate General of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance. It holds an advisory role within the French Government on matters ranging from domestic to international economic policy. Its main offices are located in Paris,in the building of Bercy. The DG Trésor also represents and defends French economic interests abroad by overseeing the economic departments of embassies,and by providing permanent representations at international organizations.
Laurent Bigorgne is a French essayist. He was the Director of the Institut Montaigne from 2010 until 27 February 2022.
Gilles Bloch is a French polytechnicien,doctor of medicine and researcher in molecular biophysics,specializing in muscle and brain metabolism. He was director general of research and innovation from 2006 to 2009,then president of Paris-Saclay University between 2015 and 2018,and president of Inserm between 2019 and 2023. Since September 2023,he has served as President of the National Museum of Natural History,France.
Françoise Benhamou is a Moroccan-born French economist,columnist,and professor. A specialist in the economics of the arts and literature,she serves on the faculties of Sciences Po Lille,Sciences Po Paris,the École Normale Supérieure,and the Sorbonne Paris North University. She is also a member of the Autoritéde Régulation des Communications Électroniques,des Postes et de la Distribution de la Presse (ARCEP) from 2012 to 2018.
Jean-François Cordet was a French government official.
Jean Bassères,is a French high ranking civil servant and interim director of Sciences Po. He previously served as the director general of France Travail from 15 December 2011 until 15 December 2023.
