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Professor Bouchard is an historian and sociologist, and a lecturer at the Université du Québec in Chicoutimi, where he holds a Canada Research Chair

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Director of the philosophy review Raison Publique, Patrick Savidan is professor of political science and philosophy at Poitiers University.

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Ruth Van Reken  is a second generation adult “third culture kid” and mother of three adult third culture kids. She speaks nationally and internationally on issues related to global family living.

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He has been head of school of the Lycée Franҫais de New York since July, 2011, after having spent 15 years at the Lycée International de St Germain-en-Laye outside of Paris.

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Jon Harriman is the principal of the International High School of Lafayette in Brooklyn.  He started his career in education in Tonga in the South Pacific, where he worked for two years as a volunteer science teacher with the Peace Corps.

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Dr.  Helot is a professor in the Teacher Education Department of the University of Strasbourg. In 1988 she obtained her PhD from Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) for a thesis entitled “Child Bilingualism: a linguistic and sociolinguistic study »

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Associate Commissioner for Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies at NYS Education Department. Her office provides guidance to over 625 districts, Charter Schools and Non-Public Schools, implement educational programs and services for over 300,000 students in NY State.

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Dr. Fabrice Jaumont  is the French Embassy’s Education Attaché in charge of secondary education. Based in New York, he is also a program officer for the French-American Cultural Exchange Council.

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Vannina Boussouf is the Director of Primary at the Lycée Franҫais de New York. She grew up on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Corsica, where bilingualism is an integral part of identity and heritage.

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Valérie worked for L’Oreal as Managing Director in Asia and Europe until she became the President of L’Oreal Luxury Product Division in New York, in 2007. She joined Louis Vuitton in 2008, and she is now President and CEO Americas at Louis Vuitton.

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After a successful career in corporate America, Angela, in 2009, combined her corporate management experience with her expertise of language educators, and founded Global Language Project

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A policy researcher and policy analyst for higher education in South Africa, Dr. Teboho Moja was appointed Executive Director and Commissioner to the National Commission on Higher Education by the late President Nelson Mandela.

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Panetha is the Director of Admissions, International Recruitment at Brown University where she has worked with and advised international undergraduate students for the past 25 years.

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Pascale Richard, co-organizer of the conference, has been director of the Lycée Français de New York's Cultural Center for three years.

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At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public high school dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, five teenagers strive to master English, adapt to families they haven't seen in years, and create a future of their own while coming of age in a new land.

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