Meet Our New Director

We at Alliance are proud to introduce or new Director, Emmanuel Kattan. Prior to joining Alliance, Emmanuel was Director of the British Council in New York, where he oversaw academic collaboration programs. He created partnerships with the Henry Luce Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation to launch initiatives connecting higher education institutions across the Atlantic.

A native of Montreal, Emmanuel studied politics in Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and earned a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

September 15, 2017

“I am thrilled to be joining the Alliance Program and I look forward to building on the strong foundations that have been established. At this juncture, transatlantic relations offer a fertile ground for academic collaboration and intellectual inquiry. The Alliance Program, capitalizing on the strengths of Columbia, Paris I, Science Po and Polytechnique, is strategically positioned to nurture new ideas and partnerships in all areas of research.”

-Emmanuel Kattan