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For Immediate Release
(March 20, 2008) Philippe Ardanaz, the Consul General of France and French trade commissioner, will speak in Savannah on Friday, April 4, at 10 a.m. The talk will be held in the Armstrong Center Ballroom at Armstrong Atlantic State University, 13040 Abercorn Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Ardanaz, who took his post in Atlanta on September 1, 2007, is expected to focus his talk on the warming French-American relations since the election of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ardanaz will also speak about the role that France is expected to play as it holds presidency of the Council of the European Union from July-December 2008.
Congressman Jack Kingston will also speak at the event. AASU President Thomas Z. Jones and AASU French Club President Mourad Séghir will join in welcoming Ardanaz and Kingston to the campus. Séghir and other members of the French Club created and organized the event.
"We invited the general consul and Kingston to the campus as an opportunity to inform people about French culture and politics," said Séghir, a native of France who is finishing one year of study at AASU under the International Student Exchange Program.
Prior to taking the post as consul general, Ardanaz worked for three years as deputy director of budget and finance for the French Foreign Ministry. He also lived in Washington from 1997-2001, working one year with the U.S. Congress as an American political science fellow and later within the French Embassy.
Ardanaz, a native of the Basque region of France, grew up in a Spanish and French bilingual home. Before working in Washington, he spent one year in Cuba and four years in Argentina working for the French Foreign Ministry.
Ardanaz, who started his career at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, holds a Ph.D. in finance, two masters degrees in management and international affairs and is a former student of the École Nationale d'Administration, a leading school that trains France's senior officials.
For further information on the event, contact Dorothée Mertz-Weigel at 912.927.5386.
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Consul General of France Philippe Ardanaz to Speak at AASU
(March 20, 2008) Philippe Ardanaz, the Consul General of France and French trade commissioner, will speak in Savannah on Friday, April 4, at 10 a.m. The talk will be held in the Armstrong Center Ballroom at Armstrong Atlantic State University, 13040 Abercorn Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Ardanaz, who took his post in Atlanta on September 1, 2007, is expected to focus his talk on the warming French-American relations since the election of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ardanaz will also speak about the role that France is expected to play as it holds presidency of the Council of the European Union from July-December 2008.
Congressman Jack Kingston will also speak at the event. AASU President Thomas Z. Jones and AASU French Club President Mourad Séghir will join in welcoming Ardanaz and Kingston to the campus. Séghir and other members of the French Club created and organized the event.
"We invited the general consul and Kingston to the campus as an opportunity to inform people about French culture and politics," said Séghir, a native of France who is finishing one year of study at AASU under the International Student Exchange Program.
Prior to taking the post as consul general, Ardanaz worked for three years as deputy director of budget and finance for the French Foreign Ministry. He also lived in Washington from 1997-2001, working one year with the U.S. Congress as an American political science fellow and later within the French Embassy.
Ardanaz, a native of the Basque region of France, grew up in a Spanish and French bilingual home. Before working in Washington, he spent one year in Cuba and four years in Argentina working for the French Foreign Ministry.
Ardanaz, who started his career at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, holds a Ph.D. in finance, two masters degrees in management and international affairs and is a former student of the École Nationale d'Administration, a leading school that trains France's senior officials.
For further information on the event, contact Dorothée Mertz-Weigel at 912.927.5386.