Governance

Audencia Business School has at its core three fundamental values:

  • Innovation: act as a challenger
  • Cooperation: succeed together
  • Responsibility: assert our difference

Through our programmes and numerous business and academic partnerships in France and worldwide, we actively contribute to our own development and expansion.

Consular Institution of Higher Education

Audencia Business School is a Consular Institution of Higher Education (CIHE) - a legal status equivalent to a Public Limited Company in the UK. This CIHE is backed by the Chamber of Commerce of Nantes Saint-Nazaire.

Organisation

One foundation

  • La Fondation Audencia (under the auspices of the Fondation de France)

 

Teaching & Research

Audencia's teaching and research activities are organised in five deparments:

  • Business & Society
  • Communication & Culture
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing

 

One research laboratory

  • Rn’B Lab / Audencia Research Laboratory – École Centrale de Nantes

 

One action-research programme

  • Behaviours and financial vulnerability

One executive management department

Eleven departments

  • Programmes
  • Executive Education & MBA
  • Corporate and Alumni Relations
  • Academic
  • Research
  • Learning & Quality Development
  • International Affairs
  • Finance and operations
  • Digital transformation & IT
  • Communications and institutional relations
  • HR

 

Seven business chairs

  • Positive Impact
  • Family Entrepreneurship and Society
  • Communication Corporate and digital transformation
  • Finance for innovation
  • Réalités - Living the intelligence of the Territories
  • Digital innovation at the service of purchasing IS
  • Integrated Multi-Capital Performance Research Centre

Boards

Administrators with voting rights

NameFunction
BOO ClémentEtudiant Programme Grande Ecole Audencia - promotion 2026
CASENAVE-PÉRÉ SylviePrésidente POSSON-PACKAGING
Louaillé (72)
CHOULET Jean-PierreVice Dean Africa - Director of Dev. and Alumni
Henley Business School -
Henley-on-Thames, Angleterre
DE FONT-REAULX DominiqueDirectrice de la Médiation et Programmation Culturelle Musée Du Louvre
Paris
DENIS MichelDG MANITOU
Ancenis (44)
DROBINSKI StéphaneDG CCI Nantes St-Nazaire
Nantes
GABART FrançoisFondateur de Mer Concept
Concarneau (29)
GAFFINEL DidierDirecteur Général Adjoint, Global Head of Coverage & Investment Banking
Crédit Agricole CIB Paris
HUG de LARAUZE BrunoPDG IDEA Groupe
Montoir de Bretagne (44)
JESTIN BéatriceDirectrice Associée - Cabinet K.P.M.G.
Nantes
LORRE FlaviePrésidente de Responsive Utility
Paris (20ème)
MÉNER AnneResponsable Médiathèque Direction Académique Audencia
MÉTRAL LaurentPrésident du C.A. Audencia
D.R.H et Direction de la Communication Groupe Crédit Mutuel
Paris
MOREL CatherineProfesseur Associé Audencia
PELÉ SylvainResponsable Pôle Immobilier & Services Généraux Audencia
RINGEARD ArnaudPrésident CCI Vendée
La Roche sur Yon (85)
STERVINOU SandrineProfesseur Associé Audencia
TRICHARD YannPrésident CCI Nantes St-Nazaire
Dirigeant de SYD Group - Nantes
VACHER CécileAssociée fondatrice VERTUEL, consultante RSE
Nantes
VERNAY LaurenceAvocate - Dirigeante Cabinet T.G.S. France Avocats
Membre associé CCI Nantes St-Nazaire : Vice Présidente Emploi Formation Compétences Diversité
Nantes

Administrators with advisory votes

NameFunction
ROUSSEL Fabrice1er Vice-Pdt Nantes Métropole
Enseignement Sup. Recherche
Maire de La Chapelle s/Erdre
BOBLIN JohannConseiller Régional PdL
Maire de la Chevrolière

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE

NameFunction
BRACQ CélineChargée de Projets Communication - Direction Communication et Relations Institutionnelles Audencia

Permanent guests

NOMPOSITION
GERMAIN ChristopheDirecteur Général Audencia
RAJJOU Matthieu

Directeur Finances et Opérations Audencia 

AVRILLIER Jean-BaptisteDirecteur Ecole Centrale Nantes 
LENGEREAU Eric

Directeur Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Nantes 

NameTitle
Rachel ASHWORTHDeanCardiff Business School
Daniel TRACADeanNova Business School, Lisboa (Portugal)
Michel PATRYDirector General
former Dean

InVivo
HEC Montreal
Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHEGeneral Secretary
former Dean
QTEM - Solvay Brussels School of Economics (Belgium)
Solvay
Pascale QUESTERVice Chancellor and President
President
Swinburn (Australia) Adelaide University (Australia)
José Miguel ARGUELLESSenior Lecturer of Strategic Management I.E.S.E Business School University of Navarra
Maria Helena JAEN Honorary Professor
former Academic Dean and V.P.
Universidad de los Andes - School of Management
I.E.S.A.,  Caracas (Venezuela)
Tanya ZLATEVADeanBoston University Metropolitan College, Massachusetts (USA)
Christophe GERMAINDeanAudencia

 

Permanent Guests

  • Laurent METRAL, President Audencia, C.E.O. C.I.C. Ouest, Nantes, France
  • Makram CHEMANGUI, Deputy Dean and Director of Executive Education Audencia, Nantes
  • Desi SCHMITT, Director of International Affairs Audencia, Nantes, France
  • (to be named) Dean Ecole Centrale (Engineering College) Nantes, France
  • Christian DAUTEL, Dean Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes, France