ENA, the French government's School of Public Administration, is best known in France and abroad for its training of a large proportion of French public figures during an extremely selective course of studies based on administrative practice.

Less well known perhaps is ENA’s international cooperation program, though it has been in existence since 1949, shortly after ENA’s creation. Indeed, in the past six decades, thousands of foreign executives, some at the highest levels of their respective countries, have taken advantage of the many training cycles, seminars, internships and study visits that ENA organizes for its foreign partners.

In 2002, the government decided to boost France’s international administrative cooperation by making it one of ENA’s core missions. In keeping with this mission, in 2004, ENA instituted the publication of an electronic newsletter, sent out five times a year and in French.

Today, we would like to make this same information in the form of a yearly synthesis available to our many English-speaking partners. We are thus happy to present you with this summary of our international activity in 2007.

Philippe Bastelica