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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
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
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