This is a very small world. I am a firm believer in Milgram's theory of six degrees of separation between any two people on the planet. It is particularly true for those who share similar areas of interest and concern. Over the years, I have met many people, whose ideas I found intriguing, simulating and relevant. This page provides links to some of these people and their ideas. The distinction between friends and acquaintances is quite simple:

• Friends are those, with whom I remained in close touch for some time and was able to engage in reciprocal exchange of ideas

• Acquaintances are those, whom I met but have not, for various reasons, maintained a sustained contact.

This is of course not a rigid distinction: friends become acquaintances and vice versa. 

Friends

• Laurent Berman, Theatre de la Vieille Grille, Paris

• John Browning, London

• Tomas Carruthers, Interactive Investor, London

• Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Skadden Arps, Paris

• Bozidar Djelic, Belgrade

• Jean-Pierre Durant des Aulnois, Cap Gemini, Paris/New York

• Lejb Fogelman, Dewey Ballantine, Warsaw

• Alexandre Grauer, Qwartz, Paris

• Andrew Hilton, Centre for Study of Financial Innovation, London

• Richard Hudson, Science and Business, London

• Kevin Kelly, Pacifica

• Karel Lannoo, Center for European Policy Studies

• Ruben Lee, Oxford Finance Group

• Nicholas Lethbridge, London and Queille

• Jan Lubinski, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Szczecin

• Michael Mainelli, Z/Yen, London

• Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University, USA

• Philippe Maystadt, BEI, Luxembourg

• Jean Penicaut, Paris

• Bernard Snoy, Stability Pact, Brussels

• Serge Soudoplatoff, Paris

• Tom Stewart, Harvard Business Review, New York

• Dominique Valschaerts, Bourse de Luxembourg

• Patrick Young, London

• Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley

Acquaintances

• Michel Albert, Paris

• Michel Authier, Trivium, Paris

• Albert Bressand, Shell, London

• Bernard Bourrigeaud, Atos, Paris

• Steve Cohen, University of California, Berkeley

• Patrick Combes, Viel, Paris

• Bernard Gotlieb, Edition Odile Jacob, Paris

• Olivier Lefebvre, Euronext, Brussels

• Andrew Malecki, London

• Thomas Malone, MIT, Boston

• Dany Quah, London School of Economics

• Andrzej Olechowski, Warsaw

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