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Richard Descoings is the Director of Sciences Po (Paris), the Administrator of the French National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP) and a Conseiller d¹Etat. After his studies at Sciences Po and then at the Ecole Normale d¹Administration, Richard Descoings entered the Conseil d’Etat (Supreme Administrative Court) where he was named Conseiller d’Etat in 2000. From 1991 to 1993, he participated in the Cabinets of the Minister of Budget and the Minister of Education. The Director of Sciences Po since 1996, Richard Descoings has distinguished himself through his ambitious reforms, notably those aimed at promoting equal opportunity in admissions to Sciences Po and promoting the globalization of the University. On the former, Richard Descoings's most remarkable reform was the creation in 2001 of a specific access network for high school students from underprivileged neighborhoods. In January 2009, Richard Descoings was appointed by President Nicolas Sarkozy as the head of a preliminary mission on high school reform. Richard Descoings was decorated as a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) and of the Ordre National du Mérite (National Order of Merit) as well as the Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms). He is the Author of “Sciences Po: de la Courneuve à Shanghai” (“Sciences Po from la Courneuve to Shanghai”). John Coatsworth is the Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor of International and Public Affairs and of History, Columbia University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation, and numerous professional associations. He is a former president of the American Historical Association and the president of the Latin American Studies Association. Dean Coatsworth received his BA in History from Wesleyan University, and his MA and Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972). He taught at the University of Chicago until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1992. From 1992 until 2007, John Coatstowrth was Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard, where he also served as the founding director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies until 2006. John Cotsworth is the author and editor of many books and scholarly articles on Latin American economic and international history. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1986, he served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer three times (for appointments in Argentina and Mexico), and has received research and institutional grants from public agencies and private foundations in the United States and elsewhere. Please RSVP to Rejane Burtin.