Richard Descoings (born June 23, 1958 in Paris) is a French civil servant. Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The French Civil Service (fonction publique française is the set of civil servants ( fonctionnaires) working for the French government. He is currently serving as the Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris), and as such as the Chief Administrator of the National Foundation of Political Science (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, FNSP). Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques ( English: National Foundation of Political Science) or FNSP was created by ordinance of Charles de Gaulle These two entities are collectively referred to as Sciences Po (see Use of Sciences Po), and are two of the most prestigious public policy research and teaching bodies in Europe. Sciences Po is a French abbreviation of sciences politiques, or Political science, which is a division of the Social sciences. Descoings is also a senior member of the Conseil d'État. This article is about the present-day French institution For institutions with the same name during the Ancien Régime in France see Conseil du Roi.
Descoings graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1980, and subsequently studied at the École nationale d'administration from 1983 to 1985. The École Nationale d'Administration ( ÉNA) one of the most prestigious French schools ( Grandes écoles) was created in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle From 1985 to 1989, he worked as an auditor in the legal section of the Conseil d'État and, in 1987, was appointed special advisor to Alain Lancelot, Director of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. This article is about the present-day French institution For institutions with the same name during the Ancien Régime in France see Conseil du Roi.
In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, and remained in that post until 1991 when he was appointed Counsel (conseiller d'État) of the Conseil d'État. A Conseiller d'État (Counsellor of State is in France, a high level Civil servant in the government administration This article is about the present-day French institution For institutions with the same name during the Ancien Régime in France see Conseil du Roi. From 1991 to 1993, he was successively technical advisor to the cabinet of the Minister for the Budget, with particular responsibility for monitoring the national education and higher education budget, and then special advisor to the Minister of National Education with responsibility for budgetary issues. The French educational system is highly centralized organised and ramified The Ministry of National Education Advanced Instruction and Research (Ministre de l'Éducation nationale de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche or simply "Minister of
From 1993 to 1996 he was appointed Deputy General Reporter on the report and studies section of the Conseil d'État and on the task force on the responsibilities and organization of the State. This article is about the present-day French institution For institutions with the same name during the Ancien Régime in France see Conseil du Roi. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as government commissioner for legal training at the Conseil d'État. This article is about the present-day French institution For institutions with the same name during the Ancien Régime in France see Conseil du Roi. He was appointed the chief figure at Sciences Po in 1996.
For his service to the French Republic, Descoings was awarded Knight of the Order of Merit and Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The The National Order of Merit (in French Ordre national du Mérite) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of the French Republic. The Ordre des Palmes académiques ( Order of Academic Palms) is an Order of Chivalry of France to academics and educators He was also awarded Commander of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco and honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and continental Europe. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located