On May 9, FACCNE cordially invites its members to join a special event organized by The Consulate General of France, in partnership with FACCNE and The French Cultural Center on the occasion of Europe Day. The event, hosted by the newly reopened French Cultural Center in Boston Back Bay, will be an opportunity to consider the emergence of the EU as a global actor, in the context of the Russian war on Ukraine.
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A panel moderated by Kaija Schilde (Boston University) will bring together three specialists in European politics: Philippe Andrale (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), Mai'a K. David Cross (Northeastern University), and David Thesmar (MIT Sloan School of Management).
[See biographies of speakers below].
The panel discussion will be followed by a networking cocktail reception, an art program, and a fundraiser for the Ukrainian people, in partnership with Friends of Fondation de France.
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Philippe Andrade
Senior Economist & Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Philippe Andrade is a senior economist and policy advisor in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. His research interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics. He joined the Boston Fed in 2019 after serving as the head of the Monetary Policy Division at the Banque de France. Previously, he held senior economist positions at the European Central Bank and at Banque de France. He was a professor at the University of Caen and an assistant professor at the University of Cergy, and he taught at Ecole Polytechnique, HEC Lausanne, and Sciences Po. He also has been a visiting scholar at the New York Fed and the European University Institute. Andrade earned PhD and master’s degrees in economics from Université Paris Nanterre.
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Mai’a K. Davis Cross
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Northeastern University
Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. She specialises in the areas of European foreign and security policy, epistemic communities, crises, diplomacy, and public diplomacy. She is the author or co-editor of five books, including European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times (University of Michigan Press, in 2021) and The Politics of Crisis in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017). In addition to these major works, she has also written extensively about European defense, counter-terrorism, crises, intelligence sharing, and space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University and a PhD from Princeton University.
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David Thesmar
Professor of Financial Economics & Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
David Thesmar is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation,entrepreneurship and behavioral economics.
A native of France, Thesmar has been involved in policy advising both at the French and European level. He was a member of the council of economic advisors to the French prime minister from 2007 to 2013, and is currently a scientific adviser to the European Systemic Risk Board. He holds a BA in physics and economics from École Polytechnique, and a PhD from the Paris School of Economics.
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Kaija Schilde
Jean Monnet Chair in European Security and Defense; Associate Professor of International Relations; Director at the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University – Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Kaija E. Schilde is an Associate Professor at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies. Her primary research interests involve the political economy of security and transatlantic security. Her book, The Political Economy of European Security (Cambridge University Press, 2017), investigates the state-society relations between the EU and interest groups (security and defense institutions, industries, and markets). She has published articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies, European Security, and the Journal of Peace Research. Her areas of expertise include the European Union, European foreign and security policy, comparative politics, defense acquisition and technology. Kaija Schilde holds a PhD from University of Pennsylvania and her term as Jean Monnet chair runs from January 2022 through December 2024.
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