| 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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Guy
Yelda
Consul
General of France in New York
Guy
Yelda was appointed Consul General of France in New York
in May 2008. Prior to his present post, he was
French Ambassador to Lithuania. A career diplomat, Mr. Yelda
already has experience of the United States, having spent
four years as Consul General in Los Angeles (1996 - 2000).
Before that, he served on the staff of the President (1992
-1993) and was later deputy head of the Office of Protocol
at the Elysée (1993 -1996). From 1985 to 1989 he was
attached to the French Embassy in London where he headed
the Press and Information Office.
Guy
Yelda, 53, is a graduate of Sciences Po and the National
School of
Administration. He entered the Foreign Service
in 1980. After an initial posting with the Ministry’s
Europe Section, he served as France’s permanent representative
to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok. He was later appointed deputy
director for the southern Africa and Indian Ocean section
at the Ministry.
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