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Christian de Perthuis

Christian de Perthuis, associated Professor at the University Paris-Dauphine and head of the Mission Climat of Caisse des Depots since 2004, is an economist by training. His research is currently focused on the economics of climate change. At the request of the French government, he has led the research and design of the Domestic Offset Project approved for implementation in 2007. Additionally, he manages the production of Tendances Carbone, a monthly bulletin analyzing the European carbon market.
Holding a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Paris I, Christian started his career in the agricultural sector before holding positions in two leading French research and forecasting institutes: first, at Rexecode, where he served as the Deputy Director and then at Bipe as General Director. Author of several articles and books, he has recently published "Towards a New Finance" and a handbook on sustainable development.

 

Colette Deremble

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Colette Deremble holds a doctorate in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, as well as a DEA in history of comparative religions. She has written and published extensively on the iconography of the stained-glass windows of Chartres and Tours. In 1997 she became a full professor of art history at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre where she chaired the art history department of that university for many years.

Jean-Paul Deremble

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Jean-Paul Deremble has taught a course on the Age of Cathedrals for the Stanford Program in Paris in tandem with his wife, Colette Deremble, for many years. His doctorate, which he received from the Université de Paris XII, concentrated on the narrative in the Chartres stained-glass windows. He has published numerous articles on Christian iconography and presently teaches medieval art history at the Université de Lille III.

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Jean-Marié Fessler

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Jean-Marie Fessler graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique. He holds a doctorate in Medical Ethics (Paris V) and a doctorate in Economic science (Lyon I). He also received his Cerficate in Health Care Risk Management from the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. Today he is the Director of Care Establishments for the largest mutual health fund in France, the MGEN. He has published numerous articles and books on management of hospitals.

Sonia Gourévitch

Sonia Gourévitch holds a doctorate in didactology of languages and culture from the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris III. She specializes in phonetics and now teaches at the Université de Paris IX.

Patrick Guédon

Patrick Guédon is a French language instructor for the Stanford Program in Paris. He holds a master’s degree (Université de Paris VII) and a DESS (Université de Paris III) in French as a foreign language. He has published numerous guides and textbooks on the subject.

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Laurent Habert

Laurent Habert received his Master's degree in education from the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris III. He teaches French (his specialization is Business French) at ESCP-EAP, and at Sciences Po Paris. Laurent Habert also works for the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, and is the co-author of Affaires.com cahier d'exercices (clé international 2007).

Estelle Halévi

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Estelle Halévi has been the director of the Stanford Center in Paris since 1989. She holds master’s degrees in art history and the history of religion, and a DEA in art history from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Among the courses she has taught over the years are “Art and Society in 18th-Century France,” “19th-Century French Painting,” and “The History and Architecture of Paris.»

Jan Horst Keppler

Jan Horst Keppler is professor of economics at the Université Paris - Dauphine and senior researcher at the Centre for the geopolitics of energy and primary resources. He is also Director of the Energy Program "European Governance and Geopolitics of Energy" of the "Institut français des relations internationales" (Ifri). His primary areas of interest are in energy supply security and the functioning of electricity and carbon markets. He also regular advises industry and international organisations (European Environment Agency, EDF, RTE, World Bank, Caisse des Dépôts and others) on energy and climate change issues. In previous positions, Professor Keppler was Senior Administrator in the Economic Analysis Division of the International Energy Agency and Administrator in the Economics Division of the OECD Environment Directorate. At the International Energy Agency, his work included a study on the economic and environmental impacts of energy subsidy removal (Looking at Energy Subsidies: Getting the Prices Right), the modelling of emission trading in the World Energy Outlook 2000 and the study Towards a Sustainable Energy Future. Lately, Professor Keppler has worked on the link between sustainable development and electrification in Electricity for All: Targets, Timetables and Instruments and the link between energy consumption and economic growth ("Causality and Cointegration between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Developing Countries"). He has recently co-edited The Econometrics of Energy Systems (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and intervenes regularly on European energy and environment issues in academic publications, the press, radio and television.

Éloi Laurent
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Éloi Laurent is a Senior Research fellow at OFCE (Sciences-po Center for economic research). He graduated summa cum laude and holds a Ph.D in economics from Sciences-po as well as a master’s degree from University Paris-Dauphine (cum laude). A former aide in the French Parliament and for the French prime minister, he has been a visiting scholar in NYU, Columbia University and, in 2005-2006, in the Center for European studies at Harvard University. He teaches at Sciences-po and Collège des hautes etudes européennes (University Paris I).

Jacques Le Cacheux

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Jacques Le Cacheux is a professor of economics at the Université de Pau and Directeur du département des études, at the Observatorie Français des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE), a research unit of the Insititut d’études Politiques (“Sciences Po”) in Paris. He also teaches graduate courses at Sciences Po and is a member of three research networks financed by the European Union Commission: GOVECOR, MOCHO, and EUROCAP.

Benoît Leguet

Benoît Leguet is a Project Manager in the Mission Climat, a research and analysis center on carbon economics at the Caisse des Depots in Paris, France. His research is currently focused on the EU Emission trading scheme, Kyoto project-based mechanisms, investment in carbon assets, and carbon neutrality. Additionally, he is a lecturer in climate change economics at various French engineering institutes, notably at the Troyes University of Technology (UTT) and at the French Petroleum Institute (IFP).
Trained as an industrial engineer with a major in Earth sciences, Benoît holds a Master in Environmental Economics from the University of Paris X. Before joining the Caisse des Depots, he worked as an environmental auditor and consultant for Deloitte in Paris, focusing on the oil and energy sectors. He contributes regularly to the publications of the Mission Climat and was a lead contributor to the Kyoto Protocol project-based mechanisms guides published by the French government.

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Nonna Mayer

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Nonna Mayer began teaching at the Stanford Center in Paris in 1993. With a master's degree in public law and a Ph.D. in political science, she has been involved in a variety of fields, among them the Far Right in France, racism, and anti-Semitism. She serves as research director at the Centre for Political Research of Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). And she teaches political sociology in the research master programme of Sciences Po "Politics and Societies in Europe". Since 2005 she is president of the French Political Science Association.

Among her recent books published are:

• Extreme Right Activists in Europe. Through the Magnifying Glass (Routledge, 2006), with Bert Klandermans
• Le nouveau désordre électoral (Presses de Sciences Po, 2004) with Bruno Cautrés
• Ces Français qui votent le Pen, (Flammarion, 2002)
• La démocratie à l'épreuve. Une nouvelle approche de l'opinion des Français (Presses de Sciences Po, 2002) with G. Grunberg and P. M. Sniderman

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Florence Mercier

Florence Mercier began teaching at the Stanford Center in Paris in 1994. Through the years she has taught both intermediate French and the history of French theater. Having earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Paris–Sorbonne, she has taught in the Department of French Grammar and Linguistics at her alma mater since 1990. Her book entitled Trente questions de grammaire française (Nathan) appeared in 1998.

 

Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux

Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux received her agrégation in modern literature. Her research focuses on the anthropology of theater - relations between the stage and the spectator. Her most recent publications are Du théâtre amateur [On Amateur Theater. A Historical and anthropological approach] (CNRS Éditions, 2004) and Figurations du spectateur [Representation of the spectator. A reflection through image on the theater and its theory] (L'Harmattan, 2006). She is currently preparing a journal issue on the face and the face to face experience in Contemporary theater (forthcoming in Ligéia in 2008).

Elizabeth Molkou

Elizabeth Molkou received her Ph.D. in French from McGill University in Canada. She currently teaches French language, civilization, and literature at the Insititut d’‡tudes Politiques (“Sciences Po”) and New York University in France, as well as French language for the Stanford Program in Paris. Professor Molkou is the co-author of the “Charte de la langue française” of Sciences Po. Her research interests include autobiographical theory, autofiction in contemporary French literature, and the representation of Paris in contemporary fiction; her critical writing is informed by an interest in the relationship between language and identity. Her most recent paper, entitled Le Paris de Patrick Modiano, was presented at Université Paris–I Panthéon Sorbonne.

Anne Muxel

Anne Muxel holds a doctorate in sociology from the Sorbonne and has taught at the Insititut d’études Politiques (“Sciences Po”). She is currently director of research at the Center for Studies on French Political Life where her research focuses on family, transmission, and memory within the context of political behavior.

Among her recent publications are:

• L’expérience politique des jeunes (Presses de Sciences Po, 2001);
• Les jeunes et la politique (Hachette, 1996);
• Individu et mémoire familiale (Nathan, 1996)

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Pauline Reychman

Pauline Reychman holds a master’s degree in French literature from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris III). She currently teaches French language for the Stanford Program in Paris.

Françoise Rullier

Françoise Rullier had been teaching at the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris IV since 1998. She has published many works on the novel, the theater and the narrative. She currently directs a creative-writing workshop focused on short-story writing. Her doctoral thesis explored comic writing, and centered upon the parody in XXth century popular novels.

She lived and taught in Africa for 18 years, and was one of the main contributors to the renovation of the African University system during that period.

She has published two novels and has frequently exhibited her own paintings in France; several of her works have illustrated her written texts.

Sylvie Strudel

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In addition to degrees in several disciplines (master's in linguistics, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne ; DEA in sociology from the EHESS ; degree and Ph.D. in political science from the IEP in Paris), Sylvie Strudel is a Professeur des Universités in political science. She was named full professor at the Université François Rabelais in Tours in September of 2005. From 2001-2003, she worked at the CNRS Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. She travelled as an invited visiting professor, including to the University of Tokyo (September 1999) and to Technische Universität Berlin (2004). She is associated researcher at the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF-Paris). Strudel's fields of research include : migrations in Europe; sociology and theory of European citizenship; political behavior in France. Among her publications are:

• Sylvie STRUDEL dir., Pratiques de la citoyenneté européenne, Revue internationale de politique comparée, 9 (1), printemps 2002.
• Olivier BEAUD, Arnaud LECHEVALIER, Ingolf PERNICE et Sylvie STRUDEL dir, L'Europe en voie de Constitution. Pour un bilan critique de la Convention, Bruxelles, Editions Bruylant, 2004.

Fabrice Virgili

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Fabrice Virgili is a researcher at the the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and received his agrégation in History. His book on France after World War II, was published in English by Oxford Press: Shorn Women Gender and Punishment in Liberation France, Oxford, Berg Publishers, Juin 2002, 384 p.

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