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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

 

David Jestaz
Ph D. Economics, Managing Director, EDF Group Corporate University, Paris

Dr. David Jestaz is a professor of Economics. He has taught in France and the United States before joining the EDF Group as the Director of the Corporate University in Paris in 2007.

From 1995 and to 2002, David Jestaz has taught at Sciences-Po, Ecole Normale Superieure and ENSAE while conducting a PhD Dissertation at OFCE-Sciences-Po in Paris on "The stock market and growth". From 2002 to 2007, David Jestaz was Visiting Professor at Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Drew University (NJ) and then Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (NY). While at Columbia University, he was also affiliated with the Earth Institute's Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS), and was Director of the Alliance Program from 2004 to 2007. David Jestaz economic researches are focused on macroeconomic issues, such as the specificity of European unemployment compared to Anglo-American countries and the relationship between stock market performance and economic stagnation. On these topics, he has published and worked since 1999 with Edmund Phelps, The Founding Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2006.

In early 2007, David was appointed Director of EDF Group Corporate University in Paris which he has led on international standards. On June 23rd, 2007, the European Foundation for Management Development has awarded the international accreditation CLIP to the EDF Corporate University and the Excellence in Practice Award for one of its leadership program. David Jestaz also lectures on Globalization at the School of Communication at Sciences Po.





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.