The Salon de la Sagesse is a non-profit association created with the purpose of uniting the pioneering voices of our young generations, to leave a lasting impact in the world. Through the organisation of events, discussions and collaborations, the Salon brings together a group of creative minds, visionaries, pioneers and change makers from all fields and from all over the globe, into one thriving community. The Salon is the mother association of the Journal d’Ambroisie and the ACMC.
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
Quote by Goethe
I am Alexandre Moll de Alba Galic. I come from a multicultural family (Spanish-Belgian-French) and have lived in foreign countries since I was born (Luxembourg, Austria, UK). I consider London one of the most important cultural, social and economic hubs of the world and have therefore chosen it for my bachelor studies. I graduated in June 2021 with a BA from KCL in German & Management, where I strongly focused on marketing-related subjects. My studies and exposures have led me to pursue my professional career with a leading marketing sector player (Buchanan, WPP). I am thus working with the world’s biggest packaged goods brands and interacting with some of Europe’s greatest marketing minds. Outside of work, I am developing a platform for creatives designed to make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in the industry. My previous work experience with my partners has helped me gain managerial and coordination skills: we created and launched our events and conciergerie business where we hosted over 120 events and designed/launched a successful internet-based reservation platform covering 90 premises around Europe. I am firmly committed to creating a great firm very soon that attracts, develops, excites and retains exceptional artists around the globe.
Emma Gabor
Alexandre Moll
de Alba Galic
Zachary Hale
University of Cambridge
Researcher at the University
of Cambridge
Hi, my name is Tamas, I am a software engineer in Fin-Tech and Cyber Security based in London. I have been working alongside and after my studies as a researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on the intersection of machine learning and materials modelling, which lead to academic publications. On top of the science and technology interests, I am curious about a great variety of fields and arts that I am pleased to discuss at Salon meetings. You will find that I am happy to ask the seemingly stupid questions as well and speak my mind about the topics on such meetings, I particularly value that the group welcomes this and others are like-minded as well.
Tamás Stenczel
Lara Masliah-Gilkarov
The Committee
Emma Gabor
President and Founder
Emma is a recent graduate from University College London with a BA in Art History, specializing in European Early Modern Visual Culture. Originally from Budapest, Emma grew up in Vienna, Austria, where she attended the Lycée Français de Vienne. She is a passionate polyglot, currently studying her fifth language. As a member of the Hungarian Student community studying abroad, she was the President of the Hungarian Society at UCL and is an alumni of the Milestone Institute in Budapest. During the last three years, Emma was an avid Summer Student at the ‘Sapienza Universitá di Roma’ and the Central European University, where she read History, Archaeology and the Arts. In her free time, Emma loves to jog, paint and write. The Salon de la Sagesse is her latest and biggest endeavor, whereby she hopes to unite the most brilliant youth of her generation.
Oskar Ernst
Vice President
Oskar is currently going into his fourth year of aerospace engineering studies at the University of Sheffield. He has a strong interest in the aerospace and airline sector as well as smart technology in manufacturing. He is half-Austrian, half-American. Growing up in Vienna and attending the Lycée Français de Vienne, Oskar is especially enjoying being part of a diverse yet like-minded group discussing some of the world’s most important issues. As the Head of External Relations, he works closely with Emma on the Salon’s most important projects. Oskar is the father of our Mentor Program and is responsible for our Honorary Members and Speaker Series. In his free time, Oskar likes to play baseball, football and tennis, in addition to his love for aviation and the beach.
Dorottya Ágoston
Executive Assistant
General Secretary
Originally from Budapest, I have spent the last four years in the buzzing international hubs that are London and Barcelona. Studying, first, History at University College London, and later, completing my postgraduate degree at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in International Communications.
Community building and advocacy are at the centre of my life, as a natural team-player with a deep care for her community, leading and getting involved in various community-oriented projects throughout my university years (and beyond). As an expression of my passion for writing and the power of words, I have worked for a plethora of magazines and publishing organisations, and in 2021, I co-founded the Journal d’Ambroisie and joined its editorial team as Editor-in-Chief. In my free time, I am an avid museumgoer and reader of historical fiction, and I love living out my competitiveness in the form of board games.
Dorottya Luca Ágoston
Oskar Ernst