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
6 Corporate Chairs (co-funding):
- Positive Impact
- Family Entrepreneurship & Society
- Multi-Capital Global Performance
- REALITIES - Bringing to life the intelligence of territories
- Financing for innovation
- Purchasing and digital innovation
Board of Directors
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| BARBIER Anne | AUDENCIA staff representative for other staff categories, documentalist and training officer |
| BARDON Thibaut | Audencia Director of Faculty and Research |
| BOBLIN Johann | Pays de la Loire Regional Councillor, Mayor of La Chevrolière |
| BOURNOIS Frank | V.P. & Dean CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Shanghai, China |
| BRACQ Céline | Audencia CSR Project Manager |
| CASTAING Laurent | General Manager Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire (44) |
| DAMESIN Marie-Françoise | Non executive Dir. & Senior Advisor / BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Paris |
| DENIS Michel | Chairman of the Audencia Board of Directors and the Audencia Business School Association General Manager MANITOU Ancenis (44) |
| DROBINSKI Stéphane | General Manager CCI Nantes St-Nazaire Nantes |
| GAFFINEL Didier | Chairman of the Audencia Foundation, Deputy Managing Director Global Head of Coverage & Investment Banking Crédit Agricole CIB Paris |
| GAUDARD Valérie | V.P. External Communications & Corporate Relations Manager ENGIE Paris |
| HOULIEZ Clément | Student Grande Ecole program at Audencia, class of 2026 |
| HUG de LARAUZE Bruno | Director IDEA GROUP President EUROTOURBES Montoir de Bretagne (44) |
| JESTIN Béatrice | Associate Director - Cabinet K.P.M.G. Nantes |
| JOSSÉ Yuna | General Manager - Vaillant Group Nantes |
| JOHNSEN Thomas | Audencia staff representative for professors, professor |
| LORRE Flavie | President of the AUDENCIA Alumni Association, President of Responsive Utility Paris |
| ROUSSEL Fabrice | 1st Vice-President Nantes Métropole Higher Education Research, Mayor of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre |
| SOULLARD Bruno | General Manager CCI Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon (85) |
| STERVINOU Sandrine | Audencia staff representative for professors, professor |
| TRICHARD Yann | Chairman CCI Nantes St-Nazaire Managing Director, SYD Group Nantes |
| VERNAY Laurence | Lawyer - Managing Director of T.G.S. France Avocats Associate member CCI Nantes St-Nazaire: Vice-president Employment Training Skills Diversity Nantes |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| 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