Portraits

Meet Louai Allani, a second-year student at Sciences Po's Undergraduate College in Menton.

Chloé Deparis graduated from the MASTER IN Governing the Large Metropolis in 2020. For the past two years she has been living in Cambodia and working as project manager at Sevea, a think tank specialising in sustainable development.

From the Master in Public Policy, Security and Defence stream, to the position of cybersecurity project manager at the Directorate General for Business at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty

Valentina Lana has graduated in the one-year Master in Advanced GlobalStudies. Coming from Italy, she is fellow at the Marshall Memorial Fellowship. Lana will receive a six-month training on transatlantic relations.

Aleksandra Szylkiewicz is Geopolitical Intelligence & Travel Security Manager at Paris-based luxury group Kering. She joined Kering’s Security Department in 2020 after working 2.5 years with the Global Risk Analysis team.

Sylvana Lewin is Associate Porject Officer at UNESCO in Paris, France. Her work focuses on intercultural dialogue projects and conflict prevention. Lewin has graduated from the Master in International Public Management.

Andres Aponte Novoa is a consultant and auditor at Synergy Global Consulting in Paris. He advises clients in fragile contexts on audit and supply chain due diligence.

Jayasurya Kalakkal has graduated in Environmental Policy. She is an Environment and Trade Consultant at the UN Environment Program in Geneva.

From the Masters in Public Affairs, general stream, to Senior Data Consultant at Artefact

Mariia Melnyk is a Gas Analyst at the Upstream Gas Infrastructure Department at the French Regulatory Commission (CRE) in Le Havre. Her daily tasks range from the interaction with gas market players and data collection to the preparation of CRE’s decisions.

Dilek Gürsel is Programme Manager in the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon. Her role includes designing activities in the frame of regional peace, security and migration.

On September 1, 2022, Florence Faucher, Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, succeeded Florence Haegel as the Director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

Iliana Flores has graduated in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action. She works as a Consultant for IOM’s Migrant Protection Division. Her main role is to contribute to knowledge management.

From private to public sector, the lively path of Virginie Vial, a 1996 graduate of Sciences Po's Urban School.

Hortense Chauvin did a bachelor in History and Literature at McGill University, followed by a joint master in journalism and environmental policy at Sciences Po. When she graduated, in 2021, she was hired by Reporterre, an independent French media company specialising in ecological issues.

Asgerdur Asgeirsdottir is Director of Communications and Startegy at the Arctic Circle in Reykjavik, Iceland. She graduated in the Master in International Public Management (now International Governance and Diplomacy)

Meet the new Chairholder of Sciences Po's European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition

Two Sciences Po students relate their experience as ambassadors of the “Climate x” pilot.

Virginie Vial is the executive director of the SAMOA URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in Nantes, France. She graduated from the Urban Planning Programme in 1996. She worked for Euro Disney's real estate development team before joining SAMOA in 2009.

NEOFARM is based on the alliance between agroecology and technology. It relieves farmers of tedious and low-value-added tasks. The farms are equipped with an automated gantry that moves over the crops.

A 2008 graduate, she recounts the academic and professional path which led her to Haiti, where she now works for the United Nations.

Lynn Seland has graduated Summa Cum Laude in International Governance and Diplomacy. Seland: "I am a very organized person in general and this was definitely useful andnecessary"