New director appointed at beleaguered Sciences Po

By Jane Marshall. Frédéric Mion, general secretary of the Canal Plus audiovisual group, has been appointed as director of the Parisian Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po.
His appointment takes place after a difficult year for the institute, which started with the sudden death last April of its head, Richard Descoings, and included a scathing report by the state auditor on its financial management during Descoings’ time as director.
Mion (43) is a graduate of Sciences Po, as well as of two of France’s most elite grandes écoles: the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and ENA, the École Nationale d’Administration. He also studied at Princeton University in the United States.
He is a member of the Council of State, France’s highest legal body, and became general secretary of Canal Plus in 2007. Previous posts included, in the early 2000s, advisor to socialist education minister Jack Lang, and he was a member of the Attali commission on the harmonisation of European diplomas. Read more...