The Maison Française benefits from the leadership and support of its distinguished Advisory Board.
Advisory Board to the Columbia University Maison Française and Department of French
Paul LeClerc, Director, Columbia Global Center / Europe; President Emeritus, The New York Public Library; Advisory Board Chair
Emmanuel André, Chief Talent Officer, Publicis Groupe
Henriette Beilis
Gaëtan Bruel, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy in the U.S.
George E. Bushnell III, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Vivendi S.A.
Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy, Columbia University
Madeleine Dobie, Chair, Department of French
Thomas Dodman, Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University
Pierre Force, Professor of French and History, Columbia University
Adam Gopnik, author, staff writer for The New Yorker
Soulaymane Kachani, Senior Vice Provost, Columbia University
Charles Knapp, President, The Knapp Family Foundation
Slawomir Krupa, CEO, Societe Generale, Global Banking and Investor Solutions
Nannette LaFond-Dufour, President, Global Clients & Business Leadership, McCann Worldgroup
Kristina Orfali, Professor of Bioethics, Columbia University
Robert O. Paxton, Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Columbia University
Jeanine Parisier Plottel, President, the Maurice I. Parisier Foundation
Shanny Peer, Director, Columbia Maison Française
Anu Rao, Senior Vice President of Communications and Sustainability, Pernod Ricard North America
Jérémie Robert, Consul General of France in New York
Frédéric Rozé, Chief Global Growth Officer, L'Oréal
Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of French and History
Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman, S4 Capital
Domna Stanton, Distinguished Professor of French, Graduate Center CUNY
Edouard Tétreau, Global Chair, Global Families
Ion Yadigaroglu, Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
Mischa Zabotin, Partner, Lisula Financial Advisors