SANDRA & THIERRY SMADJA Sandra Smadja ’86 (International Relations) and Thierry Smadja ’85 (Business Administration) met on a staircase in the Bosquet building in the mid80s. “I was flying down to the Amex after my class registration as a senior. Sandra was going up for her class registration as a junior, freshly transferred from Miami University,” Thierry says. “I instantly fell for this gorgeously sophisticated, French-looking, Americanspeaking transfer from Florida. Love (and ACP academic regulation) left me no choice but to take a no-credit class in French to get to know Sandra.” The Smadjas have been together even since. They married in Paris in 1988 before embarking on a lifelong journey around the world. They’ve lived in Pittsburgh, Paris, Brussels, and Singapore, and now call Geneva their home. “Along this ‘AUP global adventure,’ we managed to raise three adorable kids,” Thierry says. “Now they are grown-up and have started families of their own.” Today Sandra runs a highly creative ethnic jewelry design business, while Thierry runs a mergers and acquisitions shop, both with strong Euro-Asia influences that they have maintained after their years in Southeast Asia.
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