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EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS

Francois Delattre, Ambassador of France to Canada
Robert Paxton, Professor Emeritus at Columbia

Guy Yelda
, Consul General of France in New York

BOARD MEMBERS

Pierre Albouy
Pierre Debray
David Jestaz
Robert Pelletreau
Donna Redel
Ghassan Salame, Chairman of the Board
George Stone
Roland Tricot


SPONSORS

ENDOWMENT SPONSORS

The Alliance Program is now endowed at Columbia University, for what it is the first joint endowment of this kind with international partners. Sponsors of the Alliance endowment include:

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Columbia University

Ecole Polytechnique
Sciences Po
Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Conseil Regional d'Ile de France

CORPORATE SPONSORS

BNP Paribas North America
Calyon
Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP New York

GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> Alliance on the Ministry for Foreign Affairs website
French Ministry of Higher Education
Conseil Regional d'Ile de France

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

Albouy, Pierre
Anders, Alan
Audi, Joseph
Camus, Philippe
Cohn, Stephanie
De Clapiers, Luc
Debray, Pierre
Gambini, Brigitte
Ginsbury, John
El Chaar, Edgard
Kassouf, Michael
Malamed, David
Merle, Emmanuel
Moneton, Jean-Noël
Raffet, Serge
Stone, George
Ross, Alfred
Shearer, Philip
Tricot, Roland

 

Pierre Debray
Managing Director, Head of Latin America activities, Calyon Americas, NY

Based in New-York, Pierre Debray has been in charge of Calyon’s corporate and investment banking activities in Latin America for the last seven years. As such he oversees directly the bank’s operations in the various countries in the region where it has a local presence, namely Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and he is also responsible for the bank’s strategy in the Region as a whole, carried out mainly from its New-York based Calyon Americas platform.

Mr. Debray started his career in 1988 at Credit Lyonnais New-York in the Treasury & Foreign Exchange Department. He returned to Paris in 1990 to join the Project Finance Team as Manager of Mining & Primary Metallurgy Project & Structured Finance, and then spent a few years working for Credit Lyonnais in Brazil. Pierre Debray was appointed Head of Credit Risk in New-York at the end of 1996 before moving to Paris in 1999 where he was in charge of the supervision and coordination of the Central and Eastern European Network of Credit Lyonnais.

Mr. Debray holds an MS in Economic and Engineering Systems from Stanford University. He is a graduate of the French School of Economics (ENSAE) and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1987). He is married and the father of six children.





Created in the fall 2002, the Alliance Program is a non-profit transatlantic joint-venture between Columbia University and three French prestigious institutions, The École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and the Université of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.


Alliance is an innovative program whose aim is to initiate and accompany new initiatives in the fields of education cooperation, research collaboration, and policy outreach. Over the last four years the Alliance’s scope of activities have included the organization of numerous academic conferences both in Paris and in New York, the setting up of international multidisciplinary research teams, and the creation of joint-courses and curricula targeting the students of its founding partners.