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
| Name | Function | |
|---|---|---|
| METRAL Laurent | Président de l'EESC Audencia D.R.H Groupe Crédit Mutuel | |
| TRICHARD Yann | Président de la CCI Nantes St-Nazaire | |
| RINGEARD Arnaud | Président de la CCI Vendée | |
| VALENTINI Anthony | Directeur Général de la CCI Nantes St-Nazaire et Vendée | |
| VERNAY Laurence | Membre associé CCI Nantes St-Nazaire : Vice Présidente Emploi Formation Compétences Diversité | |
| HUG de LARAUZE Bruno | Président du Conseil d'Administration IDEA Groupe | |
| CASENAVE-PÉRÉ Sylvie | Présidente Directrice Générale de Posson-Packaging | |
| DE FONT-REAULX Dominique | Directrice de la Médiation et Programmation Culturelle Musée Du Louvre | |
| CHOULET Jean-Pierre | Vice Dean Africa, Director of Development and Alumni at Henley Business School | |
| JESTIN Béatrice | Associée chez KPMG | |
| DENIS Michel | Directeur Général de Manitou | |
| SIRET Jean-Paul | Président de l'Association Audencia Président du Noble Age | |
| LORRE Flavie | President of the Audencia Alumni Association - Responsable de l'Intelligence Economique, SANOFI | |
| SIRET Jean-Paul | Président Fondation Audencia (PDG Le Noble Age) | |
| VACHER Cécile | Associée fondatrice VERTUEL, consultante RSE | |
| GABART François | Fondateur de Mer Concept | |
| STERVINOU Sandrine | Professeur Associé Audencia | |
| MOREL Catherine | Professeur Associé Audencia | |
| PIERRE Julien | Professeur Associé Audencia | |
| SUPPER Uwe | Professeur Audencia | |
| MENER Anne | Responsable des Médiathèques Audencia | |
| PELE Sylvain | Responsable des Services Généraux Audencia | |
| MASSON Gauthier | Etudiant promotion Grande Ecole 2022 | |
Administrators with advisory votes
| Name | Function | |
|---|---|---|
| ROUSSEL Fabrice | Vice-Président de Nantes Métropole | |
| HOUËL Stéphanie | Vice-Présidente Innovation, Enseignement Supérieur & Recherche Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire | |
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
| Name | Function | |
|---|---|---|
| BRACQ Céline | Event Project Coordinator - Direction Communication | |
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Carole SORREAU | (representing the Corporate Advisory Committee) Corporate Director of Institutional Relations | INVIVO Group - Paris, France |
| Daniel TRACA | C.E.O. former Dean | Foundation H.E.C. Montreal, Canada H.E.C. Montreal |
| Michel PATRY | Director General | InVivo |
| Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE | General Secretary former Dean | QTEM - Solvay Brussels School of Economics, Belgium Solvay |
| Pascale QUESTER | Deputy Vice-Chancellor and V.P. (Academic) | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| José Miguel ARGUELLES | Consultant + Lecturer | 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 |
| Tania ZLATEVA | Dean | Boston University Metropolitan College, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Christophe GERMAIN | Dean | Audencia |
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