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GW PARIS Resident Director

Madame Florence Claassen de Mourgues

Madame Florence Claassen de Mourgues, Resident Director of GW Paris, serves as the liaison between the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), the Mission Interuniversitaire de Coordination des Echanges Franco-Americains (MICEFA), the American University of Paris (AUP), and The George Washington University. She organizes orientations, plans and accompanies students on excursions, and monitors student housing placements. Mde. Claassen comes to GW Paris from her previous position as Coordinator of the Sciences-Po program for Georgetown University. Mde. Claassen also served as the International Education Officer for Sciences-Po in recent years.

After studying at Sciences Po, Mde. Claassen earned her master's in applied economics at the Universite Paris IX Dauphine and did post graduate studies in economics and language at Paris I-Sorbonne. She has benefited from overseas living experiences in the United States, Italy, Austria, Singapore and Thailand and is trilingual in French, English and German.