Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville is a lawyer and a partner in the Paris office of Jones Day, after having spent a number of years with Paris based firm Gide. He studied political sciences and law in Paris and in the United States and is admitted to the Paris and New York bars. Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville specializes in banking and financial matters. 

He is active in projects promoting the heritage of Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy and human rights, and works on initiatives involving American philanthropy in Europe, in particular joint transatlantic projects in the field of philanthropy. He is the founder and President of the Tocqueville Foundation (under the auspices of Fondation Entreprendre) and of United Way Tocqueville in Paris. 

John Rossant is the Founder and Chairman of the New Cities Foundation (www.newcitiesfoundation.org), a major global non-profit network devoted to improving the quality of life and work in 21st century cities. Founded in 2010, the New Cities Foundation brings together private sector and public sector leaders, the research community and other non-profits and NGOs to pursue a common vision of a world where cities drive economic, social and environmental progress. Foundation offices are in Mon…

Pierre d’Harcourt, 61, started to work at the French Ministry of Finance. He then worked in the investment banking industry and in the meantime acted as business angel. Since 2010 he managed various business in Europe and the Pacific, mostly in the food and beverage industry.He is also chairman of Group Sud-Ouest, one of the major regional media group in France, which mission statement focused on creating social link and promoting social initiative. ​

Augustin de Romanet is a French political advisor and business executive, CEO of Groupe ADP since November 2012. He served as the chairman of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations from 2007 to 2012, and held many government positions between 1986 and 2006. ​

Laure Mandeville has been a senior reporter at Le Figaro for 31 years. She was the Washington bureau chief of Le Figaro from December 2008 to August 2016. Laure Mandeville joined the foreign service of Le Figaro in 1989 to cover the end of communism. She covered the post-Soviet world for 20 years. She was Moscow bureau chief from 1997 to 2000. She also covered Islam in Europe from 2001 to 2008. Laure Mandeville holds a degree in Russian and Polish languages and civilizations from the University of Toulouse, a diploma from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and a DEA in Soviet studies. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University, as a Fulbright and Sachs scholar. Laure Mandeville is the author of Qui est vraiment Donald Trump, Les Equateurs, 2016, of La reconquête russe, Grasset, 2008, which received the Louis Pauwels Prize and the Ailleurs Prize in 2009, as well as of L'Armée russe, la puissance en raillons, Ed n°1, 1994. She is a regular guest on C'est dans l'air, LCI and France 24. She also publishes in Politique internationale, La Revue des deux Mondes, the Wall Street Journal and The American Interest. Laure Mandeville is an associate member of the Atlantic Council think tank.

Michael K. Hayde was born and raised in Compton, California. He has enjoyed and benefited from living in Southern California his entire life. In his formative years his family instilled in him traditional Irish Catholic values. He has had mentors all his life and learned at an early age the benefit of learning from those who had more experience and who were willing to help him. He went to work for Jerrold Glass at a local CPA firm and found a lifelong friend and mentor. Jerry brought him with him in 1971 to his current firm where he found two more mentors in the Founder of the firm M. Douglas and David Stone. Mike has been blessed to remain with the Western National Group for the last 48 years. Since 1994 he has served as its Chief Executive Officer. 

The Western National Group is a 60 year old apartment company headquartered in Orange County. It has been an acknowledged leadership company in the industry.  Mike believes in a leadership style that demands not only the best of himself, profitable operations but also corporate as well as personal community involvement. He is a member and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute and past Vice Chair of its Multi Family Silver Council as well as being a Trustee of the ULI Foundation. He is a past Chairman of the California Housing Council and active in both the National Multi Housing Council and the California Apartment Association. 

Along with Orange County Sherriff, Brad Gates, he founded Drug Use is life Abuse, a nationally recognized non-profit teaching youth in Orange County about the issues of drug abuse. He has been active in fundraising for Big Brothers Big Sisters, Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Boy Scouts of Orange County, City of Hope and UCI Medical Center. Mike is a member of the United Way Ten Million Dollar Roundtable, Chairman of the United Way Worldwide Leadership Council, a member of the United Way Worldwide Board and the 2013 United Way Tocqueville Award Honoree. 

Bill O’Dowd founded Dolphin Entertainment in 1996. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Nashville, Chicago and Boston, Dolphin is a publicly-traded independent entertainment company (NASDAQ: DLPN), with divisions dedicated to feature film, television and digital content production, and celebrity, motion picture, television, lifestyle, consumer products, food and hospitality public relations and marketing. Dolphin Entertainment’s production division specializes in children’s and young adult live-action programming, enjoying a solid reputation as an award-winning producer, international distributor, and financier of quality television, film and digital programming. Dolphin has produced hundreds of hours of original programming, which have been seen in over 125 countries worldwide. In March of 2017, Dolphin completed the acquisition of 42West, the world’s leading entertainment PR/Marketing firm. 42West combines an impressive roster of A-list celebrities with a market-leading business in the public relations and marketing of feature films and television series. In July of 2018, Dolphin completed the acquisition of The Door, a best-in-class lifestyle and hospitality public relations and marketing services company, with clients ranging from celebrity chefs and restaurant groups, to live events, leading hotels, resort destinations and consumer products. In December of 2019, Dolphin completed the acquisition of Shore Fire Media, the music industry’s top-rated PR firm, providing premium marketing services to a large roster of recording artists, songwriters, music publishers, live events and venues. In December of 2019, the New York Observer ranked all 3 of Dolphin’s PR firms in their prestigious annual Power 50 list of the nation’s most powerful PR firms, with 42West ranked #4, the highest of any entertainment PR firm. Dolphin was the only company to own more than one PR firm on the list. Mr. O’Dowd graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, has received a Master’s Degree in Modern European History from Creighton University, and was named 1st-Team Academic All-American by USA Today while an undergraduate at Creighton. Mr. O’Dowd serves on the Leadership Council of United Way Worldwide, as well as on the Board of Directors of United Way United Kingdom, and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Miami-Dade County Public School System Foundation, among other charities. Furthermore, Mr. O’Dowd has taught one course a year as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Communication for the past 24 years. ​

An international lawyer specializing in international and European Union law, Ana Palacio served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain (2002-2004). She was a member of the European Parliament (1994- 2002) and a member of the Spanish Parliament (2004-2006). Ana Palacio served on the Council of State of Spain (2012-2018). She is a Visiting Professor at the Edmund E. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and maintains a monthly column at Project Syndicate. ​

Before joining PRK Partners as equity partner, François Veit was resident partner of the Gide Loyrette Nouel office in Prague between 2000 and 2010. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and real estate. François obtained a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in criminal law from the University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas, a master’s degree in musicology (Sorbonne University Paris IV) and a degree in philosophy (Sorbonne University Paris I).

Francois has been awarded "Chevalier des Arts et des lettres" by the French Minister of Culture

François has also been involved in media and entertainment law, art dealing in France and in Central Europe.

Professor emeritus of Sorbonne-University and Doctor of Letters, Françoise Melonio is a specialist of Tocqueville. She has taught in secondary schools, and has been a professor at Nanterre, at the Sorbonne, and at Sciences Po. She was deputy director of the ENS (Ulm) and director of studies and schooling at Sciences Po.

Since  1991, Vincent Montagne is the President and CEO of Média-Participations and President of Syndicat National de l’Edition (French Publishers Association) since 2012. He holds a Master’s degree in Management and International Affairs from Dauphine University, Paris. He is also the President of Mage Invest, the holding of the Michelin family. ​

Bernard Cazeneuve is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Bordeaux and works as a lawyer. He was an elected official in the Manche departement from 1994 to 2012, including being Member of Parliament and Mayor of Cherbourg. The French President François Hollande appointed him as Minister for European Affairs in 2012, Minister for the Budget in 2013 and Minister of the Interior in 2014. In December 2016 he was appointed as Prime Minister, a position he held until the resignation of his government on May 10th 2017. In 2017, he joined the law firm AUGUST DEBOUZY as Partner where he mainly focuses on international compliance matters. ​

Economist and historian, Nicolas Baverez is a columnist in Le Point and Le Figaro and the author of several books including recently L’Alerte démocratique and Le Monde selon Tocqueville. Member of the Executive Committee of Commentary magazine and treasurer of the Société des Amis de Raymond Aron, he is also Avocat à la cour d'appel in Paris, France, Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.​

Stéphanie de Tocqueville has studied at l’ICHEC in Bruxelles. She has worked in the banking sector for 10 years, and is now engaged in non-profit activities. She is the chair of the Association for the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize. ​

Benjamin Haddad currently serves as France's Minister Delegate for European Affairs, a position he has held since September 21, 2024.  Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, he was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC. He has advocated for transatlantic unity in the face of Russian aggression, for greater European responsibility and for European investment in strategic issues. His book "Paradise Lost: Europe in the World of Trump" argues for greater European unity in a world of new challenges and threats.

He published in Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Politique Etrangère and is a frequent guest on France 24, BFM, CBC, CNN, Fox News and NPR.

In 2017, Haddad was the Washington DC representative of Emmanuel Macron's En Marche movement. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, where he earned a master's degree in international relations, and of HEC with a master's degree in financial economics, Haddad taught international relations at Sciences Po.

​He was elected member of the French Parliament for the majority party "La République en Marche" in Paris in June 2022.