AAPA Gets the Lowdown on Art Risks, Antiquities Theft

inconnu-1AAPA members and their guests now understand the illegal trade in cultural objects and the natural and human risks that owners of art works must address after meeting with senior insurance company…


PSA’s Car-Racing Boss Tavares Meets the AAPA

Carlos Tavares DSC_6365 A dozen AAPA members now have a better grasp of CEO compensation, vehicle emissions standards, labor relations and how to pull a 200-year-old company from the brink of bankruptcy after…


Political Islam expert explores roots of jihad with AAPA

Five days before the March 22 attacks in Brussels, French political philosopher Olivier Roy told the AAPA that Islamic State is reaching its territorial limits and French jihadists are more a product of a generational revolt than a political struggle. Roy, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, spoke to 25 AAPA members during a lengthy Q&A session on March 17 at Bloomberg’s…


Uber Lays Out its French Woes to the AAPA

panoramique IMG_2227 14 stalwarts of the AAPA who met Uber France chief Thibaud Simphal on Feb. 24 came away with a better understanding of the controversy and legal battle being waged between the…


AAPA Gets Inside Story on Immigration, Citizenship Issues

IMG_2189 AAPA members now have a much deeper understanding of the controversial issues in France of immigration, citizenship and national identity after meeting on January 28 with Patrick Weil, historian and director of…


New Year's Message to the AAPA membership

Cours Zoom 20/12/15 Dear AAPA Members, At the turn of the year, it's useful to reflect on the past 12 months and look forward to the future. For the AAPA and its nearly 120 members, 2015 will be remembered by the terrible…


AAPA Rounds off 2015 with a Convivial AGM

2 unnamed Close to 30 AAPA members converged on the Marais on Dec. 14 for another convivial Annual General Meeting. This was the last to be presided over by President John Keating, who has served an unprecedented four-year stretch…


Climate Talks Must Be a Success, Nicolas Hulot Tells AAPA

FullSizeRender page 2 There was no doubt in the mind of Nicolas Hulot that the COP21 conference on climate change would be a success. Speaking to a group of AAPA members five days before over 140 heads of state and…


Journalists Have a Future, Publicis CEO Tells AAPA

“There is such a profusion of information out there today, such a big news flow, that we need to be served by professionals,” Publicis Groupe Chairman and CEO Maurice Levy told two dozen AAPA members on Nov. 6. “In the last decade there has been a profusion of blogs and communications from ‘citizens,’ all co-producing news. This trend is now being reversed. The tide has turned. There have been…


Former AAPA President Rony Koven Dies

Rony Koven_edited-1 Ronald Koven, a long-time Paris-based journalist who struggled tirelessly for the freedom of the press, died on Friday Oct. 30 in Paris of complications following a long battle with cancer. He…