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I went this week to an AIESEC Alumni dinner, on Le Cercle de la Mer, a restaurant on the Paris River - namely ‘la Seine’. From my seat, I had the most lovely view on the Eiffel tower ever (cf. picture on your left hand).

AIESEC is a crazy organization. Born in 1947 in Paris (founding members include ESCP, ESSEC & HEC) to organize corporate exchanges of French & German students in order to help the two countries get through the bloodshed of the War, AIESEC is by far the biggest non profit organization worldwide. Today, its Alumni network reaches 400,000 @ headcount, can you believe that? This huge network of people sharing the same values (international mindset, ability to sell your ideas, self-starters, team players) actually raises concerns amongst governments (the French secret service DGSE was in the room :-)): a lot of information are shared during such gatherings, probably too much information!

I was happy to see my mates, it had been a while. It’s interesting though that 50%+ of AIESEC Alumni work in an IT-related field, as if people keen on international issues were also familiar with technology. My neighbours were working for Accenture & Unilog, and sitting at my table were people from financial software publisher Cartesis, telco mobile operator Bouygues Telecom, IT service company Sopra Groupe, 3D-software company Dassault Systèmes, etc. I found it amazing that we all find ourselves in the same industries after spending time on totally different stuff like cold calling, travelling Europe to attend seminars, signing partnerships with companies, etc.

Anyways, if you’re still a student thinking about the student organization you’ll be joigning, don’t think anymore. You’ll never regret it.