| SENIOR
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
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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Ghassan Salame
Professor of International Relations at Columbia University
and Sciences Po
Chairman of the Board
Ghassan
Salamé is a joint professor of International Relations
at Sciences Po (Paris) and Columbia University (New York). Born in1951 in Lebanon, he studied Law (Advanced Degree
in Public International Law, Paris University, 1974; Ijaza
/Licence in Lebanese and in French Law, Saint- Joseph University,
Beirut, 1973); Literature (PhD, Literature, Paris III University,
1975); and Political science (PhD, Political Science, Paris
I University, 1979). He taught international relations at
the American and Saint Joseph universities in Beirut and,
later, at Paris University. He has been a co-founder of The
Euro-Mediterranean Chair, The European University Institute,
Florence, Italy (1999-2000).
Salamé was
Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General
(October 2003-2006) and Political Advisor to the
UN Mission in Iraq (June-October 2003).
In
2000-2003, he was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture;
Chairman and Spokesman of the Organization Committee for
the Arab Summit (March 2002) and of the Francophone Summit
(October 2002) in Beirut. He also was a member of several
inter-ministerial committees, notably on the reform of the
Higher Education system, jobs for university graduates, productivity
in the public administration, e-government.
He sits on the board of the International Crisis Group (Brussels),
the International Peace Institute (New York), The Institute
for Peace Studies (Cairo), The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria)
and a few other non-for-profit organizations. He is the chairman
of the board of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.
He is
the author of Quand l’Amérique refait
le monde, Fayard, Paris 2005; paperback edition by the
Presses de l’USJ, Beyrouth, Arabic version by An-Nahar,
Beirut; Appels d'empire : ingérences et résistances à l'âge
de la mondialisation, Fayard, 1996 (winner of Phenix
and APELF awards); Al-mujtama' wa al-dawla fi al-mashriq
al-arabi,
(State and Society in the Arab Levant) CAUS, Beirut, 1987
(5 reprints since). He is the editor of Democracy Without
Democrats : Politics of Liberalization in the Arab and Muslim
World, IB Tauris, 1994; translated into French , Arabic and
Spanish; The Politics of Arab Integration, Croom Helm, London
1988 (also published in Arabic); The Foundations of the
Arab State, Croom Helm, London 1987 (also published in Arabic).
His
essays have been published in Foreign Policy, Revue française
de science politique, European Journal of International
Affairs, The Middle East Journal and other
similar journals as well as in large number of edited books.
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