To better adapt to his new skin as director of Sciences Po, Luis Vassy, 44, went back to basics. What could be better than a biography of Emile Boutmy, builder of the Free School of Political Sciences in 1871? At the mention of the founding father’s physique, described as “fragile”, “with a slight strabismus”, by François and Renaud Leblond, authors ofEmile Boutmy, the father of Sciences Po (Anne Carrière, 2013), could not help but make the connection with her own appearance. “Everyone will deduce from it what they want! »he jokes, glasses on his nose.
Tuesday 1Ahem In October, the former chief of staff of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné moves into his new office, on rue Saint-Guillaume, in Paris. Dubbed on September 19 and 20 by the majority of the members of the board of the Institute of Political Studies and the board of the National Political Science Foundation, he takes the reins of a school of 15,000 students, with a budget of 250 million euros, which he himself attended at the end of the 1990s, simultaneously with the Higher Normal School of Cachan and before going through the ENA – Sédar Senghor promotion, the same as Emmanuel Macron .
The resignation of his predecessor, Mathias Vicherat, in March, referred his ex-partner to justice for acts of domestic violence, and then the student mobilization triggered by the Israeli-led war in Gaza after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. marked the establishment, which would like to open a new page. The former ambassador in The Hague between 2019 and 2022 is precisely I“appeasement” his mantra. His projects are numerous, including the“adaptation of procedures” recruitment, the creation of a “school of governance and climate policies”training undergraduate students in research methods in human sciences.
Repression
When he lived, as a child, in an HLM in Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne), Luis Vassy considered himself an architect and constantly drew house plans. He then became passionate about information technologies, before realizing that the openness to the world offered by diplomatic careers corresponded to what he was looking for.
The Vasilski family history It is made up of breakups, forced departures, violence. “My father, a political refugee in France in 1974, Frenchized our name of Polish Jewish origin”relates. In 1930, his grandfather Abraham, then a teenager, fled the authoritarian regime in power in Poland. He embarks for Montevideo, in Uruguay, where his own father already lives.
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