Team
Executive Committee
Audrène Eloit (Harvard Kennedy School, MPA ’14)
President
Currently working at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Audrène has close to 20 years of experience in higher education and research policy. She was previously Head of International Relations at Inserm, the national research institute for health and medicine, Director of Research for PSL where she created the department of Partnerships and Development, and a higher education and macroeconomics consultant for the World Bank. Audrène studied English at ENS Cachan, passed the agrégation d’anglais, and has a law degree from Universite Pantheon-Assas. Audrène is also the head of the HKS chapter of HCF.
Ali Jebari (Harvard College ’22)
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First Vice President
Ali attended Harvard College from 2018 to 2022 and completed a joint concentration in Social Studies and Philosophy, with a heavy focus on punishment theory. A proud member of Adams House, he was also involved with the Small Claims Advisory Service, the Harvard College Law Review, and of course, the Harvard College French Club. Ali attended the University of Cambridge as part of the Harvard-UK Fellowship, and graduated with an MPhil in Criminology. Ali is currently studying Economic Law at Sciences Po and working as a part-time associate in a corporate law firm.
Stephanie Mareva Failloux (Harvard College '94)
Treasurer & HWF
Born and raised in Tahiti, Stephanie is an entrepreneur with multiple passions, in sustainable finance and business, art, teaching and coaching, promoting female empowerment and leadership. In particular, Stephanie advises public and private institutions, entrepreneurs and individuals, on their impact strategies. She is looking to build innovative ecosystems and mechanisms to fund inclusive growth and a just transition. She revels in inspiring individuals, in particular the young and women, to engage in support of a new economy where business, society and the environment are aligned.
Eva Bernard (Harvard Kennedy School '17)
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Secretary General
Eva is Principal at the European Bank for Reconstruction on Development working on the Gender and Climate Action agenda. She is working to promote economic inclusion in green cities and sustainable infrastructure, equal access to green jobs in the renewable energy sector, and to climate finance. She is managing and overseeing a portfolio of gender activities mainstreamed in climate investments and policies in Eastern Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, and is building internal capacity on gender and climate change issues within the EBRD. Eva has 13+ years of experience in policies and international development, with a focus on human capital, gender equality, education and skills, and climate change. Previously, she worked at the World Bank Group, at UNICEF and for the French Treasury’s Washington DC office. Eva has an economic and public policy academic background. She is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Sciences Po Paris, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in France in Economics, and studied Climate Change at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Institute. She is Executive Board Member of the HKS Women Network.
Anna Lea Albright (Harvard College ‘17, GSAS ‘17)
Vice President Communication
Anna Lea is German-American and grew up in Washington, DC and Munich. She graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a bachelor’s in Evolutionary Biology and a master’s in Earth and Planetary Sciences. She is now finishing her PhD in climate physics at Sorbonne University and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, studying the role of clouds in climate change. Besides learning about anything related to climate and energy, she enjoys figure skating, cycling on Paris’ new bike lanes, and exploring art museums and galleries.
Roland Ziadé (Harvard Law School, LLM ‘02)
Vice President
A Partner and the Global Co-Head of International Arbitration at Linklaters LLP, Roland is widely known and recognized for his experience and expertise in international arbitration, acting as both counsel and arbitrator. He is an outstanding advocate as well as negotiator and a member of the Bars of Paris, New York and Beirut. A member of the Executive Team since 2010, Roland regularly hosts the club’s events at his firm.
Isabelle Roux-Buisson (Harvard Business School, MBA ’81)
Vice President
Isabelle is a seasoned senior executive with a strong track record in turning around and/or growing businesses, a global exposure, and a recognized leadership. She exhibits a proven ability to work across different cultures and organizations to develop winning strategies, align teams behind them, and drive change, execution, and results, and has developed a strong background in the High-Tech sector. She started her career working for various entities of Hewlett-Packard in France, Germany and the US (Silicon Valley HQ), quickly becoming the EMEA General Manager of 2 strategic Services Business Units. She was the first European woman to join the very exclusive circle of the “HP Top 50 Worldwide High Potential Senior Executives”. Moved by her taste for challenges and business transformation, as well as by her desire to know other actors of the value chain and other sectors of the High-tech Business, she then chooses to bring her competences to other worldwide market leaders in need of her business transformation skills. She joins the worldwide leader of semi-conductors’ distribution and revitalizes its 1,7B$ Southern Europe Region, out of Milano, before moving on to the need to be reinvented DACH region of the Top European IT distributor. Deciding then to return to France, she becomes Group Executive VP of a leading anglo-Saxon IT Services company where she restores profitability, earns the N°1 in customer satisfaction in the most promising segment. She has decided to now put her competencies and her network to serve profit and non-profit boards as well as join advisory board member for startups. She thus became a Board and Executive Committee Member for the Harvard Business School Club of France. She helped creating the Harvard Women France Programme, contributing to its later extension to the Harvard Club of France, and managed for several years the European HBS New Venture competition Programme. She has been an HCF member for the last 2 years and is looking forward to her renewed mandate..
Annick Steta (Harvard Kennedy School ’21)
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Executive Committee Member & HKS chapter co-head
A citizen of France, Annick Steta graduated from Sciences Po Paris and HEC Paris before obtaining a PhD in economics at Université Nancy 2. She holds a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. Since 2008, she has been an economic columnist for the Revue des Deux Mondes, a monthly magazine established in 1829. She is also an associate research fellow at LEFMI (Université de Picardie Jules-Verne). Her research interests focus on monetary economics and history of economic thought.
Salomé Garnier (Harvard College ’22)
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Executive Committee Member
Salomé grew up in Mandelieu-la-Napoule in the south of France, and attended Harvard College from 2018 to 2022. Since graduating, she has been pursuing a Masters in Public Health at EHESP French School of Public Health, specializing in research, data science, biostatistics, and epidemiology. Her research interests include social determinants of health and infectious diseases, in the contexts of France, the United States, South Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Violette Perrotte (Harvard Chan School of Public Health '20)
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Executive Committee Member
Violette Perrotte is a Harvard School of Public Health alumni, where she focused on Global and Population Health with a concentration in maternal health. She first graduated with a BA in international studies and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, before going to work in Senegal for the World Food Programme. She then went on to specialize in the public health approach to violence against women, and worked for La Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis, a specialized health center dedicated to vulnerable women and victims of Female Genital Mutilation. Following her masters at HSPH, she worked as the health advisor to the Mayor of Saint-Denis, before becoming his chief of staff. Born and raised Parisian, she knows little about touristic sites but always down to share her love of the U.S with Americans!
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Caroline Watson (HKS Executive Education '13)
HCF Volunteer
Caroline Watson is the founder of The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership that seeks to empower the ‘higher order’ potential of current and future leaders through engagement with the arts. The Centre has a retreat space and impact hub, Clos de Gaye, in south west France, that brings together global leaders, artists, social entrepreneurs and visionaries, in projects that intersect the arts and social change to bring about positive impact in our world.
Jakob Haesler (Harvard Kennedy School '99)
HFSF President
HCF President (2018-2020)
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