Qui sont les Young Leaders 2008?

• Katrin Bennhold, Journaliste, International Herald Tribune

Katrin Bennhold is a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

An economist by training, Katrin has been covering French and European politics for the IHT and its parent newspaper, The New York Times, for almost three years.>

Prior to that she was a senior economics writer for Bloomberg News and a television reporter for Bloomberg TV and N24, a German 24-hour news channel, in London. Katrin obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in economics from the London School of Economics in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

• Julien Cantegreil, Directeur de la programmation, En temps réel

Julien Cantegreil is the Directeur du programme of En Temps Réel, a Paris based think tank dealing with issues of public policy, economics and globalization (www.entempsreel.com). A former member of the Cabinet of the Minister of Economics (France) and a founding member of the SocialChangeNetwork, Julien is interesting in exploring innovative uses of law to impact on global issues, notably international investments and counterterrorism. As a Legal Academic, he is both teaching (Sorbonne and Ecole normale supérieure, Jurisprudence) and researching (Collège de France, International law).
Naudet Prize and former President of the Student Body, Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Agrégé in philosophy. Studies in Law in Paris, Heidelberg, Florence, Cambridge (Mass.) and at the Yale Law School, LLM and former Representative of the Graduate Fellows. Redactor-in-Chief of the Archives de Philosophie du droit (Dalloz). Vice-President, France-Fulbright.

• Christine Deschemin, Associate, Lehman Brothers  

Christine Deschemin joined Lehman Brothers in 2007 as an Associate in the Financial Institutions Group in New York. Assignments performed by Mrs. Deschemin during her investment banking career include strategic advisory services for, among others, some of the largest multinational companies and financial institutions (specialty finance and insurance) in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mrs. Deschemin worked for the procurement agency of the French Ministry of Defense (DGA – Delegation Generale pour l’Armement). During her tenure, she managed numerous international projects spanning the whole lifecycle of commercial and military aircraft and helicopters and worked in cooperation with major European aircraft manufacturers. She also provided strategic advice to the DGA senior management and managed risks related to major programs. She received the Bronze National Medal in recognition of her outstanding service as Officer Cadet in the French Military Police (Gendarmerie). Mrs. Deschemin holds the diplôme from the Ecole Polytechnique and Supaero (Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace) as well as an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School with High Distinction. Mrs. Deschemin is fluent in Spanish, English and French and is conversant in Japanese and Mandarin. She also holds a private pilot license.

• Thierry Gausseron, Administrateur général, Musée d’Orsay

Thierry GAUSSERON est diplomé de l’Ecole Navale et l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise de philosophie. En 1992, il a débuté sa carrière comme officier de marine avant de rejoindre l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales en 1998 pour y exercer des missions d’audit et de contrôle dans le domaine de la santé et des affaires sociales. Il est notamment l’auteur d’un rapport sur la démographie médicale en France et sur la délocalisation d’entreprises à l’étranger. Il a été nommé Administrateur général du musée d’Orsay en 2005. Le musée, centré sur les beaux arts du 19^ième siècle, accueille plus de 3 millions de visiteurs par an et organise en France et à l’étranger une vingtaine d’expositions chaque année.

Thierry GAUSSERON graduated from the French Naval Academy and from the National School of Administration (ENA). He also holds a masters degree in philosophy. In 1992, he started his career as a naval officer before joining the General Inspectorate for Social Affairs in 1998, where he audited and evaluated French policy on public health and social services. He worked on various issues such as health demographics in France as well as the impact of public measures on offshore outsourcing. He was appointed general administrator of the Orsay museum in 2005. The museum, which has an extensive collection of 19^th century masterpieces, welcomes over 3 million visitors every year. The museum organises 20 temporary exhibitions in the museum and abroad each year.

• Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Fondateur et CEO, PriceMinister.com

Cofounder and CEO of PriceMinister Group, Pierre has an HEC degree, specialised in Entrepreneurship. Within the Marketing and Finance Department at Capital One (in the United States) until August 2000, he manages a team of 60 analysts, that he specialises in the emerging activity of on-line credit. Prior to that, he had founded the retail consulting firm Visualis SA.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is 31, speaks French, English and German fluently.

• Fatine Layt, Présidente, Partanéa

Fatine Layt started her career as a bond trader in 1988. From 1989 to 1996, she occupied various positions as advisor and manager at Euris the private equity fund now holding company of Casino retail group. In 1998 she became through an LBO with Apax chairman & CEO of CE2P, the French BtoB publishing company. In 1999 she founded and managed Intermezzo an advisory M&A firm specialized in media. In 2003 she launched and managed the M&A firm Messier Partners with Jean-Marie Messier.

Since the beginning of 2007 she is the chairman & CEO of Partanea, an independent global investment banking firm she created, focused on strategic advice, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, debt advisory, leverage buyout and corporate governance advisory.

She graduated from IEP Paris, SFAF and Conservatoire de Paris (Cello), Member of the Cercle Interallié and the Club L. She is married and has a daughter.

• Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Chargée de mission auprès de Denis Duverne, Directeur général finance, contrôle et stratégie, GIE AXA 

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is executive assistant (“chargée de mission”) to Denis Duverne, Chief financial officer and member of the Management board of the AXA Group. She started in this position in June 2008. Before that, she served as a civil servant for four years, being senior advisor with the French “Cour des comptes”, the French national public audit body, where she specialized in Finance and Budget.

Before her admission at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Amélie had graduated from Sc Po and ESSEC. She also has a Master degree in Law from “La Sorbonne” University.

Before embracing the academic course, Amélie was one of the world junior top tennis players. In 1992 she won the “Orange Bowl”, the equivalent to the world championship, in the under-fourteen years old category. She also was a two-time French national champion and was selected more than twenty times to represent France in all major European and international competitions. She also reached the semi-finals of three out of the four grand slams (US Open, Wimbledon and Roland Garros) in the juniors’ category.  

She is the mother of two toddlers, Vincent and Thomas. 

• David Spector, Economist, CNRS

David Spector is an Economist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and an Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics. Prior to taking up these positions, he taught at the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His research focuses on the economics of competition and regulation, and on the interplay between economics and law.

David is also the founder of Microeconomic Applications (MAPP), a consultancy providing economic expertise in antitrust proceedings. In that capacity, he has been involved, alongside lawyers, in a large number of merger filings and antitrust cases brought before the European Commission, national competition authorities, European and national Courts of Appeals, and Courts of arbitration.

David has published many articles in economics and law journals, several book chapters on the economics of competition law (such as a contribution on State aids in “Competition in the EU: Fifty Years on from the Treaty of Rome", Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and a book on the economics of electricity (“Electricité: Faut-il désespérer du marché?”, Editions Rue d’Ulm, 2007). He also publishes a monthly column in the French daily La Tribune.

David graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He holds the “agrégation“ in mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics. He is fluent in English, French, German and Italian.

• Boris L. Zaitra, Corporate Vice-President, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, EADS

Boris L. Zaïtra is Corporate Vice-President, Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions department of the EADS Group. As such, he manages a team of 13 professionals and is in charge of the coordination of all acquisitions and disposal for all EADS business units, at all stages of the negotiations, as well as partnership/JV discussions. Before joining EADS in 2005, he was a Partner with the mid-market private equity firm Duke Street Capital, both in London and Paris, and was involved in deals in the UK and French Healthcare, Consumers, Chemicals industrial sectors. Previously, he was Associate with JP Morgan in London in the M&A Department, focusing primarily on the Oil & Gas industry, where he was involved in deals such as the Exxon-Mobil or Total-PetroFina mergers.

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in France in 1995 and attended various executive seminars at Columbia University, INSEAD or the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a reserve officer in the French Foreign Legion and holds a French and US private pilot license.

He is also a member of various French American associations and attended the European Young Leader Programme of Atlantik Bruecke in 2007 in Lubjana.