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ADVISORY BOARD

HONORARY
BOARD MEMBERS
Francois
Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States
Robert
Paxton, Professor Emeritus at Columbia
BOARD
MEMBERS
Robert Pelletreau
Donna Redel
Ghassan Salame,
Chairman of the Board
George Stone
Roland Tricot
SPONSORS 
ENDOWMENT SPONSORS
The Alliance Program is
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
See Press Release on the launch of the endowment on the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
CORPORATE
SPONSORS
BNP
Paribas North America
Calyon
Gide
Loyrette Nouel LLP New York
GOVERNMENT
SPONSORS
French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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
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Francois Delattre
Ambassador of France to the United States
 François Delattre was appointed Ambassador
of France to the United States in February 2011, following three years as Ambassador of France to Canada (2008-2011), four years as
French Consul General in New York (2004-2008), two years
as Deputy Director of the French Foreign Minister’s
Office (2002-2004) and four years as Press and Communications
Director at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1998-2002).
As
a member of President Jacques Chirac’s Foreign
Policy Team (1995-1998), François Delattre was responsible
for European and trans-Atlantic defence and security issues
and managing the Bosnian crisis. He had previously advised
Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in his cabinet on these
same issues (1993-1995) following two years with the Strategic,
Security and Disarmament Department of the French Foreign
Ministry (1991-1993). François Delattre has also been
posted in Bonn at the French Embassy in Germany (1989-1991),
where he was in charge of environmental issues and the economic
consequences of Germany’s unification.
François
Delattre holds a degree in international law and is a graduate
of Sciences Po and ENA.
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