| 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
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Robert
Pelletreau
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
The
Hon. Robert H. Pelletreau served as Assistant Secretary
of State for
Near Eastern Affairs from February 1994 to January
1997. Prior to that time, he served as U.S. Ambassador to
Egypt (1991-1993), to Tunisia (1987-1991) and to Bahrain
(1979-1980). Other assignments in his 35-year career in the
Foreign Service included Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania,
Morocco and Syria as well as senior positions in the Departments
of State and Defense. While in Tunisia, Ambassador Pelletreau
conducted the U.S. dialogue with the P.L.O. As Ambassador
to Egypt, he joined the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Madrid
Middle East Peace Conference, and as Assistant Secretary,
he traveled frequently to the region as a member of Secretary
Christopher’s negotiating team. During this period,
he also played a key role in the development and implementation
of U.S. policies toward North Africa, the Levant, Egypt and
the Gulf, including Iraq and Iran.
Mr.
Pelletreau attended Phillips Academy, the Institute of
Political Studies
in Paris, Yale University (B.A. 1957)
and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1961). On leaving government,
he joined the international law firm of Afridi & Angell,
with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., the United Arab
Emirates and Pakistan. In 2000, the firm became Afridi, Angell & Pelletreau
and established a strategic alliance with BakerBotts. He
withdrew from the firm in 2002 and following a period as
an independent consultant, joined with his wife Pam as Co-Directors
of Search for Common Ground in the Middle East, based in
Jerusalem, from June 2004 to July 2005.
Mr. Pelletreau
speaks French and Arabic. He is married to Dr. Pamela Day
Pelletreau (B.A. Smith College, Ph.D. George
Washington University) and they have three children. Mr Pelletreau
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American
Foreign Service Association and the American Academy of Diplomacy.
He serves on the boards of several Middle East-related organizations.
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