Aix-Marseille University - Alumni

Alumni

• Mohamed Abbou – Minister-Delegate for Public Service and the Modernization of the Administration of Morocco: 2007–2010
• Simon Achidi Achu – Prime Minister of Cameroon: 1992–1996; Minister of Justice of Cameroon: 1972–1975
• Chris Agee – Irish poet, essayist and editor
• Jean Aicard – French poet, dramatist and novelist
• Paul Alexis – French novelist, dramatist and journalist
• Barry Jean Ancelet – Cajun folklorist, expert in Cajun music and Cajun French
• Kiarash Anvari – Iranian film maker, video artist and script writer
• Joseph d'Arbaud – French poet
• Fanny Ardant – French actress, winner of the César Award for Best Actress
• Christophe Arleston – French comics writer and editor
• Isabelle Arvers – French media art curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, chiptunes and machinima
• Françoise Atlan – French singer
• Ali Bach Hamba – Tunisian lawyer, journalist and politician
• Édouard Balladur – Prime Minister of France: 1993–1995; Minister of the Economy, Finance and Privatization of France: 1986–1988
• Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux – French politician of the Revolutionary period
• Victor Barthélemy – French political activist
• Paul Bastide – French conductor and composer
• Philippe Baumard – organizational scientist who has held visiting professorships at New York University, University of California, Stanford University, and is currently École Polytechnique's Chair on Innovation & Regulation, and President of the Scientific Council of France's High Council for Strategic Education and Research
• Dominique Bénard – former Deputy Secretary-General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
• Sunil Benimadhu – the Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM): 1998-present
• Driss Benzekri – Moroccan left-wing political and human rights activist
• Gaston Berger – French futurist, industrialist and philosopher
• Léon de Berluc-Pérussis – French poet and historian
• Ishmael Bernal – Filipino film, stage and television director
• Saviour Bernard – Maltese medical practitioner, scientist, and major philosopher
• Mongo Beti – Cameroonian writer
• Carole Bienaimé – French film and television producer
• James Birch – English art dealer, curator and gallery owner
• Roland Blum – French conservative politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
• Lionel Bobot – Professor in "Negotiation and Strategy" at NEGOCIA Business School (Paris Chamber of Commerce) and Associate Researcher at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) and ESCP GTI lab
• Philippe Bourguignon – Member of the Board of Directors of eBay, former co-Chief Executive Officer of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
• Frédérick Bousquet – French freestyle and butterfly swimmer
• Jean Boutière – French philologist
• Valérie Boyer – Member of the National Assembly of France
• Beverley Bie Brahic – American poet and translator
• Marcel Brion – French essayist, literary critic, novelist and historian
• Emmanuel Brunet Jailly – Canadian politics and public policy scholar
• Marion May Campbell – Australian novelist and academic
• Brian Campion – American politician
• Régis Campo – French composer
• Marie-Arlette Carlotti – Member of the European Parliament
• René Cassin – the French Minister of Justice: 1941–1943; President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): 1965–1968; the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• Paul Cézanne – French artist and Post-Impressionist painter
• Zouheir Chokr – President of the Lebanese University, former Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar
• Jürgen Chrobog – the German Ambassador to the United States: 1995–2001
• Gilbert Collard – Member of the National Assembly of France
• Raphaël Confiant – French writer
• Adolfo Costa du Rels – President of the Council of the League of Nations: 1940–1946; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia: 1948; Bolivian Ambassador to France: 1948–1952
• Adolphe Crémieux – the French Minister of Justice: 1848; 1870–1871
• Gaston Crémieux – French lawyer, journalist and writer
• Anaïs Croze – French singer
• Nigel Davies – British anthropologist and historian, former MP for Epping, UK
• Gaston Defferre – Minister of the Interior of France: 1981–1984; Mayor of Marseille: 1944–1946; 1953–1986
• Thomas Degos – the Prefect of Mayotte: 2011–present
• Alexandre del Valle – Italo-French political scientist and geopolitician
• Blaise Diagne – French political leader, the first black African elected to the National Assembly of France
• Pape Diouf – President of Olympique de Marseille: 2005–2009
• Maurice Dongier – neuropsychiatrist at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal, Canada
• Tony Downes – the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law of the University of Reading
• Nick Drake – English singer-songwriter and musician
• Pierre-Michel Duffieux – French physicist, the founder of Fourier optics
• Ferdinand Duviard – French writer and novelist
• William A. Earle – American philosopher
• Émile Eddé – President of Lebanon: 1936–1941; Prime Minister of Lebanon: 1929–1930
• Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David – French archaeologist and writer on art
• Mansour Mohamed El-Kikhia – Libyan academic and politician
• Roland Eng – Advisor to the Cambodian Government and Ambassador-at-Large
• Marian Engel – Canadian novelist
• Bruno Étienne – French sociologist and political analyst
• Roger Excoffon – French graphic designer
• Charles Annibal Fabrot – French jurisconsult
• Pierre Falcone – French businessman, the Chairman of Pierson Capital Group
• Christopher Fomunyoh – Senior Associate for Africa and Regional Director at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
• Sadaf Foroughi – Iranian film maker, video artist and film editor
• José Frèches – French historical novelist
• F. J. Friend-Pereira – Indian academic and author
• Marc Fumaroli – French historian and essayist
• Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, PC – British politician, the Leader of the House of Lords, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
• Roger Garaudy – French philosopher
• Pierre Joseph Garidel – French botanist
• Romain Gary – French diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator
• Pierre Gassendi – French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician
• Henri Gastaut – French neurologist
• Antoine Marc Gaudin – professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
• Éric Geoffroy – French philosopher, islamologist, writer and scholar
• Jean-Pierre Gibert – French Canon lawyer
• Félix Gouin – Chairman of the Provisional Government of France: 1946; President of the Constituent National Assembly of France: 1945–1946
• Sylvie Goulard – Member of the European Parliament
• Cherif Guellal – former Algerian Ambassador to the United States
• Jean-Marc Guichet – French orthopedic surgeon
• Élisabeth Guigou – the French Minister of Justice: 1997–2000; the French Minister of Social Affairs: 2000–2002
• Malek Haddad – Algerian poet and writer
• Peter Hambro – founder of Peter Hambro Mining and a Non-Executive Director of the Private Banking Division of Société Générale
• Jim Hoagland – American journalist, an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• Ken Hom – Chinese American chef, author and British television-show presenter
• Fredric Jameson – American literary critic and Marxist political theorist, who has taught at Harvard and Yale
• Maryse Joissains-Masini – Member of the National Assembly of France; Mayor of Aix-en-Provence: 2001–present
• Sophie Joissains – French politician and a member of the Senate of France
• Pravind Jugnauth – Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius: 2010-2011; Minister of Finance of Mauritius: 2003-2005; 2009–2011
• Sébastien Jumel – French politician, member of the French Communist Party (PCF)
• Miro Kačić – Croatian linguist
• Roger Karoutchi – the French Ambassador to the OECD: 2009–present
• Chips Keswick – non-executive director of DeBeers Sa, Investec Bank, Persimmon plc, Arsenal Holdings plc (the parent company of Arsenal F.C.), and former Director of the Bank of England
• Vasil Kolarov – Provisional President of Bulgaria: 1946–1947; Prime Minister of Bulgaria: 1949–1950
• Mamadou Koulibaly – President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire: 2001–present
• Chandrika Kumaratunga – President of Sri Lanka: 1994–2005
• Ariane Labed – French actress, who was awarded the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
• Christine Lagarde – Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2011–present; Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment of France: 2007–2011
• Henry-Louis de La Grange – musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler
• Janja Lalich – Professor of Sociology at California State University
• Thomas LaMarre – Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and member of the faculty of McGill University in Montreal
• Jason Lamy-Chappuis – French skier, Olympic gold medallist in combined events 2008
• Xavier Laurent – French actor
• J. M. G. Le Clézio – French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Henri Lefebvre – French sociologist, Marxist intellectual and philosopher
• Raphaël Liogier – Director of the Observatoire du religieux
• Luzolo Bambi Lessa – Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2008–present
• Dai Llewellyn – Welsh socialite
• Hugh D. MacPhie – Canadian author and consultant
• Jean-Charles Marchiani – French prefect and politician
• Richard Marquand – Welsh film director
• Jean-François Mattéi – French philosopher
• Penda Mbow – Minister of Culture of Senegal: 2001
• Kenneth H. Merten – American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Croatia
• Mostafa Mesbahzadeh – Iranian newspaper editor of Kayhan
• Paul Meurisse – French actor
• François Mignet – French journalist and historian
• Stoyan Mihaylovski – Bulgarian writer and social figure
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau – President of the National Constituent Assembly of France: 1791
• Frédéric Mistral – French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Jean-Baptiste Morin – French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer
• Iulia Motoc – Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania
• Francisco Negrin – award winning stage director working in opera
• Claude Njiké-Bergeret – development aid volunteer
• Prince Norodom Ranariddh – the second son of former king Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half brother of the current king Norodom Sihamoni
• Patrick Ollier – President of the National Assembly of France: 2007; Vice-President of the National Assembly of France: 1998–2002
• Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan – French jurist and former Chair of Comparative Criminal Law at the Sorbonne University
• Marcel Pagnol – French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker, who became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française
• Philip M. Parker – INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science
• Elisabeth Pate-Cornell – specialist in engineering risk analysis, and professor of management science at Stanford University
• Benoît Pelletier – Minister of Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs: 2003–2008; Leader of the Government in Parliament: 2007–2008
• Régine Pernoud – French historian and medievalist
• Terry Phillips – American journalist, author and media consultant
• Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis – Minister of Public Worship of France: 1804–1807
• David Pujadas – French journalist
• Jean-Bernard Racine – Professor of Geography at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and at HEC Lausanne Business School
• Jean-Pierre Rampal – French flautist
• François Juste Marie Raynouard – French dramatist and academic
• André de Richaud – French poet and writer
• Didier Robert – Member of the National Assembly of France
• Léon Rostan – French internist, member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, and foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Johnson Roussety – former Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues
• Maurice Rouvier – Prime Minister of France: 1887; 1905–1906; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France: 1905–1906
• Ambroise Roux-Alphéran – French historian
• Laurent Sagart – director of research at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, unit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Enric Sala – marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
• Nicolas Schmit – Minister of Labour, Employment and Immigration of Luxembourg: 2009–present
• Pam Seatle – TV newscaster on Citytv in Toronto, Canada, on CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight
• Philippe Séguin – President of the National Assembly of France: 1993–1997; President of the Court of Financial Auditors of France: 2004–2010
• Peng Shige – Chinese mathematician
• Jean-Athanase Sicard – French neurologist and radiologist
• Modibo Sidibé – Prime Minister of Mali: 2007–2011
• Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões – linguist, an associate professor at the University of Kansas
• Haim Steinbach – American artist
• Patrick Süskind – German writer and screenwriter
• Jorge Telerman – Argentine politician and journalist, the 4th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires City
• Roland Theis – the General Secretary of the Christian Democrat Union in Saarland, Germany
• Adolphe Thiers – 2nd President of France: 1871–1873; Co-Prince of Andorra: 1871–1873; Minister of the Interior of France: Oct–Dec 1832; Apr–Nov 1834; 1834–1836; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France: Feb–Sep 1836; Mar–Oct 1840; Prime Minister of France: Feb–Sep 1836; Mar–Oct 1840
• Dominique Tian – Member of the National Assembly of France
• Bahaa Trabelsi – Moroccan novelist
• Jean-Louis Trintignant – French actor, winner of the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival
• Richard Tuheiava – Member of the Senate of France
• Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre CBE – Scottish lawyer, former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
• Albert Jan van den Berg – the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute
• Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem – Prime Minister of Angola: 1991–1992; 1996–1999; President of the National Assembly of Angola: 1992–1996
• Nicolas Vatomanga – saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer
• Nguyen Xuan Vinh – Commander of Vietnam Air Force: 1958–1962
• Keith Waldrop – Professor Emeritus at Brown University, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry
• Rosmarie Waldrop – American poet, translator and publisher
• Catherine Walker – designer of Diana, Princess of Wales
• Jens Weidmann – 8th President of the Deutsche Bundesbank: 2011–present; Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB): 2011–present; Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2011–present
• Choe Yun – Korean writer, winner of the Yi Sang Literary Award
• Jane Zemiro – Australian academic and author