There were about twenty, then six, and now only three sciences Po Arancha González Laia, Dean of the School of International Affairs in the Parisian establishment, Louis Vasi, Minister of Europe and Director of the Cabinet could hope to lead. Foreign Affairs and Rostan Mehdi, director of Science PoX, were selected by an internal committee on Friday afternoon, POLITICO has learned.
One of them will take over from current interim director Jean Basseres in the coming weeks, since the forced departure in March of previous director Matthias Wicherat, who was referred to the courts for a domestic violence case.
Arancha Gonzalez Laya, 55, who already has one foot in the big school and was Spain’s foreign minister under Pedro Sánchez, and senior civil servant Luis Vasi, 44, are still the two favorites, according to several people familiar with the process. Interview by POLITICO.
58-year-old Rostan Mehdi is the surprise of this choice. A third man restored both the reputation and finances of the Aix Institute of Political Studies.
Former science director Po Lilly Pierre Mathiot, former Dutch minister Juliette Medel and entrepreneur and former writer François-Xavier Petit of the Ministry of Labor were rejected.
The board of directors and council of the institute that co-pilot Science Poe will now audition each of the three finalists on September 19 and 20. They will then propose the name to the minister responsible for higher education, which must be approved by a decree of the President of the Republic.
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