Portraits

Martina Smuclerova has taught Public International Law at Sciences Po since 2011. This Sorbonne-educated international legal expert and Czech diplomat has previously served as a delegate to the United Nations, the European Union and the European Space Agency.  We asked her about her course.

Pierre Sautreuil, a student at the Sciences Po School of Journalism, is doing his Master's through the dual education programme with an apprenticeship at Agence France Presse. He spent his gap year on the front lines in Ukraine with pro-Russian separatists. This experience of war reporting at 21 years old earned him the Prix Bayeux Calvados in the Young Reporter category in October 2015. Interview.

Claire Chabaud, a Master of Economics and Business student at Sciences Po, has just won first prize in the Bpifrance #PitchTonInno awards for students with her partner Anastasia Ruiz, a fashion design student at ESMOD. Thanks to the €30,000 FrenchTech grant this has earned them, the students' project for made-to-measure 3D-printed lingerie will be able to see the light of day. We talked to Claire.

Brice Leverdez, 30, is both a professional badminton player and a student in the Top Athletes programme at Sciences Po. He has already won eight French championship titles and twelve international tournaments and is currently in intensive preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. We caught up with him between two training sessions.

Lisa Lauton is a German student doing a Master of Public Policy at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs. She talks about why she decided to come to Sciences Po and what she would like to do after graduating.

Colin Hay teaches a course on public policy at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, and political analysis at the University of Sheffield. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative European Politics. He presents his view of public affairs.

Yann Schreiber, graduate student at Sciences Po, has been awarded three prizes by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the oldest organisation representing journalists in the US, for two reports he produced during his year abroad at the Ohio State University.

Leon Yuchin Lau, an undergraduate student at Sciences Po, has just been offered a contract to become a foreign service officer with the government of Singapore. While he originally intended to follow his undergraduate education with a Master's degree, Leon changed his plan and decided to enter the professional world.

Tara Heuzé, a student on the Sciences Po-Columbia dual Master's programme, launched an initiative to collect sanitary products for homeless women. The operation, dubbed "Règles élémentaires", helped raise awareness well beyond Sciences Po. Interview with a student who wants use the weapons of finance to change the world.

Alyette Tritsch, a student in first year of the Master of International Development at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, initiated the Welcome Refugees project along with a group of students. Thanks to them, Sciences Po has welcomed a group of refugees in recent weeks to take courses in French and English. We asked her about this successful move to action.

An American student at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs in the Master of Public Policy, Arsh Haque talks about his motivations for studying in France, his early days in Paris and everyday life on the Sciences Po campus.

Vu Tran was born in Vietnam and moved to Singapore at the age of fifteen. He introduces himself as “a social sciences person”, so when he started looking into undergraduate studies outside Singapore he saw Sciences Po as the perfect fit. Vu Tran talked to us about his life on the Sciences Po campus in Le Havre.

Andrea Klaric graduated with a Master’s in European Affairs in 2013, but she is still nostalgic about the halls of the Sciences Po campus in Paris, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume.

Tommaso Venturini, research fellow at the Sciences Po Medialab, is the scientific coordinator of EMAPS, the only social sciences project among the 12 winners of the 2015 "Étoiles de l’Europe" prize (Fr) that recognises research teams for their commitment to Europe.

Pierre Hassner, international relations specialist and research fellow at CERI Sciences Po, analyses contemporary global affairs in his latest book, La revanche des passions. Métamorphoses de la violence et crises du politique (The Revenge of the Passions. Metamorphoses of Violence and Political Crisis), published by Fayard in 2015. Interview.

Katrin Büchenbacher, a graduate student at the Sciences Po School of Communication, talks about the discoveries she made during the career building workshop at Sciences Po. She discusses why knowing who you are is all-important when it comes to defining your career plan.

  Luca Springer, a student in the dual BA programme between Columbia University and Sciences Po, is one of only 89 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. The Rhodes Trust seeks students of “outstanding intellect, character, leadership, and commitment to service” who “demonstrate a strong propensity to emerge as ‘leaders of the world’s future.’”

Natalie Welfens, a graduate from the Sciences Po-Freie Universität Berlin dual Master’s programme, is the 2015 recipient of the Université Franco-Allemande Excellence Award. She talked to us about what she took away from this joint French and German programme.

Nora Poggi is a Sciences Po Master of Communications and the Director-Producer of the award-winning documentary film, "She Started It" on women tech entrepreneurs. The film was named one of "5 Must-Watch Movies for Entrepreneurs in 2017" by Inc Magazine and was shown at over 300 events, at Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University, Stanford University, The World Bank, Disney, Google, Apple, Micros

After a visiting scholarship at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Mathieu Ichou successfully completed his PhD in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded the European Consortium for Sociological Research prize for his thesis, “The origins of academic inequalities: a contribution to the study of the academic trajectories of children of immigrants in France and England”.

Ramiar Jamal is an undergraduate student from the University of Kurdistan Hewler (Erbil) in Iraqi Kurdistan. Currently on an exchange programme on the Sciences Po campus in Reims, Ramiar tells about his life in France and what surprised him the most about the Western mindset and values.

The Emile Boutmy scholarship, named after the founder of Sciences Po, allows the best international students from outside of the European Union to study at Sciences Po. In 2015, the Emile Boutmy scholarship was awarded to 220 students from many backgrounds and countries of origin including Ghana, China, Egypt and the United States. Meet some of the talented recipients of this scholarship.

Meenakshi Raina is an Indian student enrolled in the Master of International Energy programme at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. She is passionate about sustainable development and climate change issues, and a keen participant in the Make It Work initiative.

Hélène Thiollet teaches international relations, comparative politics and migration studies at Sciences Po. Over the past ten years, her research has involved a lot of field work, and she has also worked as a consultant in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa for NGOs, International organisations and firms. She explains how the connection between research and policy-making practices influences her way of teaching.