“UTC Alum­ni” is the new iden­ti­ty of the UTC “Trem­plin” Asso­ci­a­tion cre­at­ed in 1978. This new name ensures bet­ter iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and a greater inter­na­tion­al vis­i­bil­i­ty. At its head — and for the first time — a female pres­i­dent: Claire Behar. 

Chaired by Claire Behar since Jan­u­ary 2020, UTC Alum­ni now has more than three thou­sand mem­bers round the world. The asso­ci­a­tion is run with the help of a Board of Direc­tors com­pris­ing 23 peo­ple, includ­ing a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer, Mar­i­anne Allan­ic, and two employ­ees, Céline Keldenich and Julia Vila Llor­ca. “Its voca­tion is to fed­er­ate the com­mu­ni­ty of UTC grad­u­ates, to pro­mote the school in the socio-eco­nom­ic world and to pro­vide pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices to every­one. All this in a spir­it of con­vivi­al­i­ty and mutu­al trust,” says Claire Behar, a mem­ber of the as Board since 2013. After eleven years work­ing as a vol­un­teer with­in the UTC com­mu­ni­ty, she becomes vice-pres­i­dent of the UTC Alum­ni Asso­ci­a­tion in 2014, tak­ing over the pres­i­den­cy in 2020 fol­low­ing Eric Schindler, out­go­ing pres­i­dent after 5 years in office and cur­rent mem­ber of the asso­ci­a­tion’s board of direc­tors. At the asso­ci­a­tion’s home office, Claire Behar can count on the Vice-pres­i­dents Jacque­line Forien and Amine Smahi, on, Trea­sur­er Louis Bride and Piers Bar­rios, UTC Alumni’s Secretary.

Claire herself is a UTC Alumni

Grad­u­at­ing from UTC in 2014, after a semes­ter in Switzer­land at the Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy in Lau­sanne and anoth­er semes­ter in Shang­hai for an intern­ship with the CNRS, she now works for the French com­pa­ny Excelya as head of the Data Sci­ence Depart­ment, deal­ing with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence sub­jects in the health sec­tor with her team. With her man­date as pres­i­dent, the young woman is work­ing with the UTC Alum­ni team to move from a local impact to a glob­al impact. “Our asso­ci­a­tion notably offers ‘webi­na­rs’, acces­si­ble on dif­fer­ent themes, for exam­ple: on the feed­back of expe­ri­ences from expa­tri­ates, and this is very much appre­ci­at­ed by our mem­bers. Sev­er­al vol­un­teers help us to run the net­work and we would like to con­tin­ue to val­ue their con­tri­bu­tion to the run­ning of the Asso­ci­a­tion. We are for­tu­nate to have branch­es in France, such as Lille or Bor­deaux, but also abroad, as in Switzer­land or the future enti­ty UTC Alum­ni Moroc­co.” More­over, the asso­ci­a­tion con­tin­ues to give a sense of inno­va­tion dur­ing the health cri­sis in part­ner­ship with Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), an open research and inno­va­tion lab­o­ra­to­ry, as part of the Open Covid-19 initiative. 

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