Our Governance
Audencia Business School is an EESC ("Établissement d'Enseignement Supérieur Consulaire" that can be translated to "Consular Higher Education Institution") whose legal status is similar to that of a corporation. The Audencia EESC is supported by the Nantes-St Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
3 core values
Through its programs and numerous corporate and academic partnerships in France and around the world, Audencia actively contributes to the development and impact of its region by upholding the following 3 values:
Innovation: acting as a challenger
Cooperation: succeeding together
Responsibility: asserting our difference
Organization
1 Overall Management
13 Departments:
- Programs
- Academic Research
- Executive Education
- Company and Alumni Relations
- Career, Training & Corporate Services
- Learning & Quality Development
- Digital Transformation & Information Systems
- Communications & Marketing
- Human Resources
- Sales & Admissions
- International Affairs
- Corporate Partnerships & Philanthropy
- Finance & Operations
8 Departments
- Accounting, Management Control and Economics
- Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
- Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
- Organization Studies and Ethics
- Communication, Culture and Languages
- Finance
- Marketing
- Sports
Audencia has a Fundamental Research Lab in partnership with the Centrale Nantes Engineering School.
1 Foundation
The Audencia Foundation (under the aegis of the Fondation de France).
1 Business Research Center
aimed at producing useful and innovative academic research for business and society.
1 Action Research Program
Behaviors and Financial Vulnerability
8 Corporate Chairs (co-funding):
Board of Directors
Administrators with voting rights
| Nom | Fonction |
|---|---|
| TRICHARD Yann | President of the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry Head of SYD Group - Nantes |
| DROBINSKI Stéphane | General Manager of the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nantes |
| VERNAY Laurence | Lawyer - Dirictor of T.G.S. France Avocats Associate Member Nantes Saint-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry : Vice president of Employment Training Skills Diversity Nantes |
| JOSSÉ Yuna | General Manager - Vaillant Group Nantes |
| DENIS Michel | President of Audencia's Board and Audencia Business School association General Manager MANITOU Ancenis (44) |
| SOULLARD Bruno | General Manager of Vendée Chamber of Commerce and Industry La Roche-sur-Yon (85) |
| LE ROY Karine | Deputy General Manager VYV3 Nantes |
| BOURNOIS Frank | V.P. & Dean CHINA EUROP INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Shanghai, Chine |
| GAUDART Valérie | VP Brand external communication civil society ENGIE Paris |
| CASTAING Laurent | General Manager Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire (44) |
| DAMESIN Marie-Françoise | Non executive Dir. & Senior Advisor / BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Paris |
| JESTIN Béatrice | Partner - Rydge Conseil / Cabinet K.P.M.G. Nantes |
| BARDON Thibaut | Associate Dean for faculty and research - AUDENCIA E.E.S.C. |
| GAFFINEL Didier | President of Audencia's Foundation, Deputy General Manager, Global Head of Coverage & Investment Banking Crédit Agricole CIB Paris |
| DUPEUX Emmanuel | President of Audencia Alumni Association, Partner Saint Honoré Partenaires Paris (8e) |
| STERVINOU Sandrine | Staff Representative for Professors, Associate Professor Audencia |
| JOHNSEN Thomas | Staff Representative for Professors, Professor Audencia |
| BARBIER Anne | Staff Representative for Administrative Staff, documentalist and training officer AUDENCIA |
| LEVEILLER Maximilien | Student Grande Ecole Program Audencia, class of 2027 |
Advisory board members
| Nom | Fonction |
|---|---|
| GOUEZ Aziliz | 17e vice-pdt Nantes Métropole, en charge de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, conseillère municipale de Nantes, élue du quartier centre-ville |
| THIRIET Richard | Secrétaire du Conseil régional - Région Pays de la Loire Conseiller délégué à l'entreprise et l'industrie - Membre de la commission Economie, agriculture, industries agroalimentaires, pêche, emploi, formation continue, enseignement supérieur et recherche, international, numériqu |
| BRACQ Céline | Chargée de projets RSE, Audencia - Représentante du comité social et économique d'Audencia |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| José Miguel ARGUELLES | Consultant and Senior Lecturer in the Strategic Management Department (I.E.S.E Business School University of Navarra), Spain |
| Rachel ASHWORTH | Professor in Public Services Management, former Dean of Cardiff Business School, Cardiff U.K. |
| Nancy COLEMAN | Dean of the Harvard Division of Continuing Education (D.C.E) Cambridge, Massachussets U.S.A. |
| Tamim ELBASHA | Director of Learning & Quality Development, AUDENCIA E.E.S.C, France |
| Maria Helena JAEN | Chair Distinguished Professor (Universidad de los Andes - School of Management) Bogota, Colombia |
| Michel PATRY | Chief Executive Officer H.E.C. Foundation Montreal, Canada |
| Pascale QUESTER | Vice Chancellor & President of Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Daniel TRACA | Dean, ESADE Barcelona, Spain |
| Sébastien TRAN | Dean Audencia E.E.S.C., France |
| Desi SCHMITT | Director of International Affairs, AUDENCIA E.E.S.C., France |
| Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE | Rector and President of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary |
| Tanya ZLATEVA | Interim Dean of Metropolitan College - Director for education Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS), Boston University , Massachussets, U.S.A |
Permanent Guests
- Michel DENIS, Chairman of the Audencia Board of Directors and the Audencia Business School Association, General Manager MANITOU
- Desi SCHMITT, Director of International Affairs Audencia, Nantes, France