The University of Lausanne in Lausanne,Switzerland,was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology,before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzerland,and one of the oldest universities in the world to be in continuous operation. As of fall 2017,about 15,000 students and 3,300 employees studied and worked at the university. Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university,which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with other universities.
The Universitédu Québec àMontréal,is a French-language public research university based in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Universitédu Québec system.
Mair Eluned Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Ely,,is a Welsh Labour politician who has served as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2024. She previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government from 2021 to 2024.
The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg is a public research university founded in 1993 and is located in Magdeburg,the Capital city of Saxony-Anhalt. The university has about 13,000 students in nine faculties.
SGH Warsaw School of Economics is the oldest and most prestigious business school in Poland.
Leif Pagrotsky is a Swedish politician,economist,and diplomat. He served as Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2006 and Minister for Business and Industry from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Göran Persson. After this,he held the position of Consul General of Sweden in New York City from 2016 to 2018.
The University of Delhi,informally known as Delhi University,is a collegiate research central university located in Delhi,India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognised as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Vice President of India serves as the university chancellor. The university is ranked 6th by National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024.
Erasmus University Rotterdam is a public research university located in Rotterdam,Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus,a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam,also known mononymously as Tharman,is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023.
Education in Algeria is free and compulsory for Algerians from the ages of 6 to 15. However,only half of Algerian students are enrolled in secondary schools. As of 2015,Algeria has 92 post-secondary institutions,which includes 48 universities.
Throughout Algeria's history as an independent state,there has been conflict between women's rights activists and conservatives about the status of women in Algeria. The 1984 Algerian Family Code entrenched certain forms of gender inequality and discrimination against women. Some progressive reforms were implemented in 2005 amendments to the law,but women are still unequal under Algerian law.
Esther Duflo,FBA is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019,she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is a Moroccan-born French former politician and jurist. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),she served in a number of ministerial positions during the presidency of François Hollande. Vallaud-Belkacem was the first woman to serve as Minister of Education,Higher Education,and Research,holding the position from 2014 to 2017 under Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management is a school of economics and management,and a Faculty of the Universitélibre de Bruxelles (ULB),a French-speaking private research university located in Brussels,Belgium. Business education started in 1899,and Solvay was established in 1903 through a donation from the industrialist Ernest Solvay.
Rebecca Mary Evans is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for the Economy,Energy and Planning since September 2024. She previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 2018 to 2024,and for the Constitution and Cabinet Office in 2024. Evans has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Gower since 2016,and a Member for Mid and West Wales from 2011 to 2016.
The Algerian Popular Movement is a social democratic Berber political party in Algeria. The party,which had been previously known since 2003 as the Union for Democracy and the Republic,was re-founded in February 2012. In the 17 May 2012 People's National Assembly elections,the party won 2.17% of the vote and 7 of the 389 seats.
The National Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology is an Algerian governmental research organisation in social sciences created by the decree 92-215 on May 23,1992. The Centre operates under the aegis of the Ministry of higher education and scientific research,its headquarters is located in Oran.
Abdelkader Ben Ghabrit,commonly known as Si Kaddour Benghabrit was an Algerian religious leader,translator and interpreter who worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the first rector of the Great Mosque of Paris.
The NITI Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of the Republic of India,and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development,and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. Its initiatives include "15-year road map","7-year vision,strategy,and action plan",AMRUT,Digital India,Atal Innovation Mission,Medical Education Reform,agriculture reforms,Indices Measuring States’Performance in Health,Education and Water Management,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development,Task Forces on Agriculture and up of Poverty,and Transforming India Lecture Series.
Paris CitéUniversity is a public research university located in Paris,France. It was created by decree on 20 March 2019,resulting from the merger of Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot universities,established following the division of the University of Paris in 1970. It was originally established as the University of Paris,but was renamed by decree in March 2022 to its current name. The university headquarter is located in the École de Médecine building,in the 6th arrondissement at boulevard Saint-Germain. Among the best Universities in Europe and in the world,in 2024,it is France's 1st best university in clinical medicine,1st in public health and 6th in the world in mathematics according to the Shanghai ranking. With its 15 teaching hospitals and 28,800 medical students,it is the leading medical school in France and one of the largest in Europe.
