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École Spéciale Des Travaux Publics
École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie (ESTP) is a French engineering school and grande école located in Cachan. History ESTP was founded in 1891 by Léon Eyrolles and was officially recognized by the State in 1921. It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of construction and project management. ESTP Paris is the most prestigious Civil Engineering school in France. It has trained a total of 24,000 engineers and 7,000 construction site managers. The school has also educated since 1891 site managers in building and public works in an undergraduate program. In 1999 the school formed a partnership with Arts et Métiers ParisTech to offer a double-degree program. It offers a multitude of doube-degree programs with various universities around the world Courses The institution offers courses in Architectural engineering, building engineering, civil engineering, topography, surveying, electrical eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Eyrolles
Léon Eyrolles (14 December 1861 – 3 December 1945) was a French politician and entrepreneur. In 1891, he created the first École Spéciale des Travaux Publics and later a correspondence school. Eyrolles developed his educative skills as he helped fellow site managers to pass civil servant selective exams. In 1902 he bought a large piece of land to extend the school and in 1924 he became the mayor of the newly founded city of Cachan which was split from the city of Arcueil. Further reading * External links École Spéciale des Travaux Publics du Bâtiment et de l'Industrie 1861 births 1945 deaths Mayors of places in Île-de-France 19th-century French businesspeople People from Tulle {{France-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYU Paris
NYU Paris is an academic centre of New York University located in Paris, France. It is one of NYU's 14 global academic centers, hosting around 250 students each semester with classes taught by around 50 professors. Campus NYU Paris's campus is situated in the former facilities of the École spéciale des travaux publics at 57 boulevard Saint-Germain in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement, which were purchased by NYU in 2014. The eight-floor campus is shared with Librairie Eyrolles, one of the largest specialized bookshops in Paris. It also hosts the NYU Paris Library and an auditorium. Campus History New York University first established a campus in Paris in September 1969, installing a small group of students and faculty in the offices of the Franco-American Fulbright Commission at 9 rue Chardin in the 16th arrondissement. Seeking more spacious facilities, the campus subsequently moved to the top floor of the France-Amériques centre on the avenue Franklin D. Roose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Martin (New Caledonian Politician)
Harold Martin (born 6 April 1954, Nouméa, New Caledonia) is a French politician. He served twice as President of the Government of New Caledonia (from 7 August 2007 to 10 May 2009 and again from 3 March 2011 to 5 June 2014) and three times as President of the Congress of New Caledonia between 1997 and 2011 (most recently from 22 May 2009 to 3 March 2011). Former student as a site manager in the ESTP, Martin replaced Marie-Noëlle Thémereau in 2007 as the leader of the ruling Future Together party after the party suffered an electoral setback to choose the territory's two members of the French assembly. Coming from one of the oldest families of European origin, Martin is descended from a nephew of James Paddon James Paddon (23 September 1811, Portsea, Hampshire – 13 February 1861, Nou Island, New Caledonia) was an English navigator-merchant, sandalwood, settler, pioneer in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Early years The beginning of his life r ..., the British adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Itoua
Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua (born 6 October 1956"Biographie du Ministre de l'Energie et de l'Hydraulique Son Excellence Bruno Jean Richard Itoua", Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics of Congo-Brazzaville (accessed 10 July 2013) .) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Higher Education since 2016. Previously he was Director-General of the National Oil Company of Congo (''Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo'', SNPC) from 1998 to 2005, Minister of Energy and Hydraulics from 2005 to 2011, and Minister of Scientific Research from 2011 to 2016. Career An ethnic Mbochi and a member of the Gamboma clan,"Nepotists' nirvana" ''Africa Confidential'', volume 45, number 9, 30 April 2004. Itoua was born in |
Saad Hassar
Saad Hassar ( – born 21 February 1953, Salé) is a Moroccan politician. Between 2007 and 2012, he was Secretary of State for the Interior in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi, succeeding Fouad Ali El Himma. Saad Hassar studied at the Mission laïque française of Rabat (''Lycée Descartes'') and at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics of Paris. He is a nephew of Abdelkrim al-Khatib, co-founder of the National Popular Movement which later became the Justice and Development Party, and cousin of Moroccan Gendarmerie General Hosni Benslimane. See also *Cabinet of Morocco The Cabinet of Morocco is the chief executive body of the Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco. The Cabinet is composed of some 24 ministers including 5 "Minister Delegates". It is headed by the Prime Minister of Morocco, Prime Minister since August 2011, ... References Government ministers of Morocco 1953 births Moroccan engineers Living people People from Salé Alumni of Lycée Descartes (Raba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Hamelin
Ginette Hamelin (4 March 1913 – 14 October 1944) was a French engineer and architect who became a member of the French Resistance and an intelligence officer in World War II. She was murdered in a concentration camp in 1944. Biography Hamelin was born Ginette Sylvere in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France on 4 March 1913. Her father was Major Antoine Sylvère. He led a major maquis group in the southwest. Her sister was the singer . Hamelin studied engineering and architecture in the School of Public Works where she was the first woman to graduate in that field. She married N. Hamelin, brother-in-law of the future Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas. In 1934 Hamelin became a member of the Communist youth. Hamelin's husband was killed in 1940 and she joined the Resistance in 1941. She was part of the National Front for the Liberation and Independence of France with her sister. They fought with André Debon. Hamelin joined the Snipers and Partisans where she became a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Guérillot
Roger Léon Charles Guérillot (12th of November 1904 – 31st of October 1971) was a French colonist of Ubangi-Shari who was involved in the process of independence by which it became the Central African Republic. Guérillot is known mainly for having developed the Committee of Economic Health, a failed project for the expansion of plantations in Ubangi-Shari, under the authority of the ''Loi Cadre Defferre'' (1957–1958). It was based on conservative ideals but presented as part of the emancipation of the colonies. In general, his political orientation was controversial and he seems to have been guided solely by personal interests. Biography From colonist to African emancipation movement Roger Guérillot was born on 12 November 1904 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, to a 21-year-old domestic servant, Marie Guérillot, employed by a family of the 16th arrondissement. Until the end of his life, Guérillot used two first names on legal documents, Léon and Charles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Grunitzky
Nicolas Grunitzky (; 5 April 1913 – 27 September 1969) was the second president of Togo and its third head of state. He was President from 1963 to 1967. Grunitzky was Prime Minister of Togo from 1956 to 1958 under the French Colonial '' loi cadre'' system, which created a limited "national" government in their colonial possessions. He was elected Prime Minister of Togo —still under French administration— in 1956. Following the 1963 coup which killed his nationalist political rival and brother-in-law Sylvanus Olympio, Grunitzky was chosen by the military committee of coup leaders to be Togo's second President. Biography He was born in Atakpamé in 1913 to a German father and a Togolese mother (of Ghanaian royalty). He studied civil engineering at the ESTP in Paris and was a public administrator before leaving to form his own company. He was the secretary-general of the Togolese Party of Progress and was elected into the Togolese Representative Assembly in 1951. Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc De Garidel
Marc de Garidel is a French Biotech Entrepreneur. He is the CEO and Interim Board Chair of Abivax, a French clinical-stage, publicly traded biotechnology company (ABVX at Euronext Paris and Nasdaq Global Market), which he joined in May 2023. He is also the non-executive chairman of the pharmaceutical company Ipsen since 2010. Further, he is on the board of Claris Bio, a Harvard Ophthalmology spin-off. Education Marc de Garidel has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Ecole des Travaux Publics in Paris, has a Master’s in International Management (MIM) from Thunderbird Global School Management in Glendale, Arizona, US, and an executive MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis. 3] Career In 1983, he started his career at Eli Lilly and Company, where he worked in France, the United States and Germany. 3] In 1995, he joined Amgen as vice president of finance and treasury for Europe. 3] In 1998, he became vice president, corporate controller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshé Feldenkrais
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais (; May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method. Feldenkrais' theory is that "thought, feeling, perception and movement are closely interrelated and influence each other." Life Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was born in 1904 to a Ukrainian Jewish family in the Russian Empire city of Slavuta (now in Ukraine) and grew up in the Russian Empire city of Baranovichi (now in Belarus). In 1918, he immigrated to The British Mandate of Palestine. He worked as a laborer and obtained his high school diploma from Gymnasia Herzliya in 1925."Ben Gurion's Personal Trainer" '''' After gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubavitch
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of the largest Jewish religious organizations. Unlike most Haredi groups, which are self-segregating, Chabad mainly operates in the wider world and caters to nonobservant Jews. Founded in 1775 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812) in the city of Liozno in the Russian Empire, the name "Chabad" () is an acronym formed from the three Hebrew words— Chokmah, Binah, Da'at— for the first three sefirot of the kabbalistic Tree of Life after Keter: , "Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge"—which represent the intellectual and kabbalistic underpinnings of the movement. The name Lubavitch derives from the town in which the now-dominant line of leaders resided from 1813 to 1915. Other, non-Lubavitch scions of Chabad either disappea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( – June 12, 1994; Anno Mundi, AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an American Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Chabad, Lubavitch List of Hasidic dynasties and groups, Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.Matt Flegenheimer"Thousands Descend on Queens on 20th Anniversary of Grand Rebbe’s Death", ''The New York Times'' As leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he took an insular Hasidic group that almost came to an end with the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential movements in religious Jewry, with an international network of over 5,000 educational and social centers. The institutions he established include kindergartens, schools, drug-rehabilitation centers, care-homes for the disabled, and synagogues.Editorial, 07/08/14"Rebbe to the city and Reb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
