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:
Our Governance
Audencia Business School is an EESC (Établissement d'Enseignement Supérieur Consulaire) 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

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
7 Corporate Chairs (co-funding):
Board of Directors
Administrators with voting rights
Nom | Fonction |
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TRICHARD Yann | Président CCI Nantes St-Nazaire Dirigeant de SYD Group - Nantes |
DROBINSKI Stéphane | DG CCI Nantes St-Nazaire Nantes |
VERNAY Laurence | Avocate - Dirigeante cabinet T.G.S. France Avocats Membre associé CCI Nantes St-Nazaire : Vice présidente Emploi Formation Compétences Diversité Nantes |
JOSSÉ Yuna | Directrice générale - Vaillant Group Nantes |
DENIS Michel | Président du C.A.AUDENCIA et de l'Association Audencia Business School DG MANITOU Ancenis (44) |
SOULLARD Bruno | Directeur général CCI Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon (85) |
BOURNOIS Frank | V.P. & Dean CHINA EUROP INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Shanghai, Chine |
GAUDART Valérie | V.P. Dir. com. externe & relations sociétés civiles ENGIE Paris |
CASTAING Laurent | Directeur général Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire (44) |
DAMESIN Marie-Françoise | Non executive Dir. & Senior Advisor / BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Paris |
JESTIN Béatrice | Directrice associée - Cabinet K.P.M.G. Nantes |
BARDON Thibaut | Directeur de la faculté et de la recherche - AUDENCIA E.E.S.C. |
GAFFINEL Didier | Président de la Fondation AUDENCIA Directeur Général Adjoint, Global Head of Coverage & Investment Banking Crédit Agricole CIB Paris |
DUPEUX Emmanuel | Président de l'Association des Alumni AUDENCIA, Expert comptable mémorialiste associé Saint Honoré Partenaires Paris (8e) |
STERVINOU Sandrine | Représentante du personnel catégorie professeurs, professeur associé Audencia |
JOHNSEN Thomas | Représentant du personnel catégorie professeurs, professeur Audencia |
BARBIER Anne | Représentant du personnel autres catégories de personnel, documentaliste et chargée de formation AUDENCIA |
LEVEILLER Maximilien | Etudiant programme Grande Ecole Audencia, promotion 2027 |
Advisory board members
Nom | Fonction |
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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 |
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Sébastien TRAN | Dean Audencia E.E.S.C., France |
José Miguel ARGUELLES | Professor of Economics - Nova School of Business, Lisbon, Portugal |
Rachel ASHWORTH | Dean Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, U.K. Professor of Public Services Management |
Nancy COLEMAN | Dean of Continuing Professional Education and Online Training - Harvard Division of Continuing Education (D.C.E) Cambridge, Massachussets U.S.A. |
Maria Helena JAEN | Honorary Professor (Universidad de los Andes - School of Management) Bogota, Colombia |
Michel PATRY | President and Chief Executive Officer H.E.C. Foundation Montreal, Canada |
Pascale QUESTER | Vice Chancellor & President - Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Professor of Public Services Management |
Daniel TRACA | Professor of Economics - Nova School of Business, Lisbon, Portugal |
Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE | Dean Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium |
Tanya ZLATEVA | Dean Boston University Metropolitan College, Massachusetts, USA |
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