Graduation 2008

On June 5th, 2008, the annual AGSIRD graduation ceremony will take place in Paris in the French Senate. The commencement speaker this year will be European Deputy and former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard. In the past years, the commencement address has been delivered by the Arab League Ambassador to UNESCO, H.E. Nassif Hitti; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editorial page editor for the International Herald Tribune, Serge Schmemann; and former French Prime Minister, Alain Juppé, to name just a few.

Like every year, this year's graduating class is very international, with graduates from the United States, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, and India.