The Mission Interuniversitaire de Coordination des Echanges Franco-Américains (MICEFA) is a non-profit association created in 1985. It brings together 18 member universities in Paris and the Ile de France region and over 65 North American partner universities in both the United States and Canada.
This organization promotes cultural and scientific cooperation between France and Anglophone North America. We work with universities and their students to facilitate the exchange of students and the promotion of education abroad.
Meet the MICEFA Team
In the office
Camille Buguet
Camille completed her undergraduate degree in Applied Foreign Languages at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. She completed a 4-month internship at the MICEFA in 2022 and joined the MICEFA again in early February 2023 for her 6-month internship in order to complete her master’s degree in trilingual international management. She speaks English and Spanish, enjoys traveling and exploring different cultures throughout the world.
Dr. Jean Fournier
Jean Fournier PhD is Associate Professor of Sport Psychology at Université Paris
Nanterre. As Academic Director of MICEFA, he helps students adjust to the French
system, and advises them in their academic choices.
He is also the president of the French Society of Sport Psychology.
Annika Godefroy
Annika joined the MICEFA team in May of 2017 and has been working in study abroad for a decade. She has an undergraduate degree in French and International Studies and a Master’s degree in Conflict and Mediation studies. She studied abroad herself in Angers, France during her undergraduate degree and fell in love with France and international education.
Rebecca Procak
Rebecca has worked in the international education field for over a decade. She comes to the MICEFA after working for 9 years with another study abroad group in Paris. Rebecca majored in French during her undergraduate degree and is passionate about helping students adapt to their exchange in Paris.
Katia Nossenko-Hercberg
Katia has been working with MICEFA since 2009. She organizes all of the French intensive sessions and activites, helps to guide students in their academics and provides academic tutoring and assistance. Katia obtained her PhD from Paris Descartes Sorbonne in Linguistics.
Members of the Board
Jacques Pothier
Professor Pothier was elected president of MICEFA in 2014. He previously joined the board of MICEFA in 2004 as its Secretary General. He comes to MICEFA as a professor in English studies, specializing in American Studies at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin and Sciences Po St Germain en Laye. Professor Pothier is a deputy director of the doctoral school in Humanities and Social Sciences at Université Paris-Saclay and serves on the advisory board of the Institut des Amériques. He has served on the board of the French Association for American Studies, the European Association for American Studies.
Anne Masgnaux
Mrs. Masgnaux was elected treasurer of MICEFA in 2017. She is Maître de conférence in the Management Sciences in the School of Management at Paris I-Sorbonne Panthéon. She comes to MICEFA after a long career in management in the French Aviation sector. She obtained her doctorate from IAE Caen in Management Science.
Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
Claire Bourhis-Mariotti is an Associate Professor of African American History and the Co-Director of the research unit TransCrit at the University of Paris 8 – Paris Lumières in France.
Her main research concentrates on nineteenth-century African American history, particularly the emigration and colonization movements, early Black organizing, the emergence of Black nationalism, and Black internationalism.
She is also Vice-President of the French learned society REDEHJA, whose field of research is the Americas and the Atlantic World from modern times to the mid-nineteenth century.
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