Is there a “Brain Drain” of French Academics to the United States?

Dec 2, 2010 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm EST
Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall - Columbia University Morningside Campus
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Is there a “Brain Drain” of French Academics to the United States?Roundtable Discussion on a new study published by the Institut Montaigne, Gone for Good? Partis pour de bon? Les expatriés de l’enseignement supérieur aux Etats-Unis (released November 2010).Discussion in French, with English interpretation available.Event location : East Gallery, Buell HallWith the French university system under reform since 2007, France’s competitiveness in higher education at the international level has been under scrutiny. At a time of global “brain circulation,” how does France fare on the attractiveness scale in the eyes of both international and French academics? Is there such a thing as a French “brain drain” to the United States?Roundtable participants:Ioanna Kohler, Director of Policy Programs at the French-American Foundation U.S., and author of the Institut Montaigne study, will present the main study findings.Laure Bereni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Institute of French Studies, NYUJean-Laurent Casanova, Professor, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller University; cofounder and codirector of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases at Necker Medical School in ParisPierre-André Chiappori, Professor of Economics, Columbia UniversitySouleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy, Columbia UniversityFrançois Rachline, Executive Director of the Institut Montaigne and Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (moderator)This roundtable is free and open to the public, no RSVP requiredEvent co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Institut Montaigne, and French-American Foundation

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