Faculty and researchers
The EDHEC faculty and research staff, which makes up the EDHEC academic community, is made up of permanent professors and researchers as well as affiliate professors and associate researchers, spread over the Lille, Nice, Paris, Singapore and London campuses.
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: Control ManagementFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Management Accounting and Control, Accounting for Sustainable Development, Biodiversity AccountingMadlen Sobkowiak joined EDHEC Business School as an Associate Professor of Accounting in 2023 with a particular interest on sustainability accounting and managerial accounting.
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship and Director of EDHEC EntrepreneursDiscipline: EntrepreneurshipFaculty:Expertise: Accompagner, fédérer et engager les entrepreneurs
- Associate Professor , Academic Director of Online MSc in Corporate FinanceDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Corporate FinanceGohar Stepanyan, PhD, joined EDHEC Business School in Fall 2016 with over ten years of professional work experience.
- ProfessorDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Corporate finance, corporate governance, international finance, law and economics.Peter G. Szilagyi joined EDHEC Business School as Professor of Finance in 2021. He previously served at Central European University and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
- Associate Professor, Deputy Head of faculty - Accounting, Control and Law , M'assurer de la qualité des recrutements des vacataires et des cours.Discipline: Control ManagementFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Sustainable AccountingProfessor Pascale Taddei Valenza is a full-time faculty member who joined EDHEC Business School in 2001. Her primary teaching areas are Management accounting and Management control.
- Assistant ProfessorDiscipline: MarketingFaculty: MarketingExpertise: Affect and emotions, uncertainty, promotions, consumer behaviourArash Talebi is Assistant Professor of Marketing at EDHEC Business School (France). His research primarily focuses on understanding the role of emotions in consumer judgment and decision-making.
- ProfessorDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Pension fund asset-liability management, global investment strategies, fund manager selection and risk managementNikolaos Tessaromatis, PhD, is a Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. Prior to joining EDHEC Business School Dr Tessaromatis was CEO and CIO of EDEKT Asset Management, the leading fiduciary manager of Greek pension funds.
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: StrategyFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Theories of entrepreneurial action, entrepreneurial strategy, technology commercialization, new venture teams, team governance, corporate entrepreneurship.Jana Thiel joined EDHEC Business School in January 2024, to lead research and to teach in various programmes on how entrepreneurs conceptualize and implement their strategies and how they structure and manage team production under uncertainty.
- ProfessorDiscipline: StrategyFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Corporate and Competitive Strategy, Strategic Management, Strategic Innovation, Mergers & AcquisitionsGeorge Tovstiga, Ph.D, is Professor of Strategy at EDHEC Business School. He holds a doctorate in Engineering Sciences (Dr. sc. techn. ETH) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).
- ProfessorDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Asset allocation and portfolio choice, Valuation and risk management, International financeRaman Uppal is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A and Ph.D.
- Associate Professor , EDHEC Augmented Law Institute ResearcherDiscipline: EconomicsFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Microeconomics, Public Economics, RegulationGiacomo Valletta, PhD, is Associate Professor of Economics at EDHEC Business School.
- Associate Professor , MSc in Global & Sustainable Business ManagerDiscipline: Social Responsibility of the Business (CSR)Faculty: Management & HumanitiesExpertise: Business EthicsBastiaan van der Linden is Associate Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at EDHEC Business School and Director of the MSc in Global and Sustainable Business.
- ProfessorDiscipline: ManagementFaculty: Management & HumanitiesExpertise: Business Ethics, Whistleblowing, Philosophy of ManagementWim Vandekerckhove is Professor of Business Ethics at EDHEC Business School in France. He holds a PhD from Ghent University.
- Professor , Academic Director EMBADiscipline: MarketingFaculty: MarketingExpertise: Sustainable marketing and marketing ethics; corporate social responsibility; consumer behaviorJoëlle Vanhamme, Ph.D, is Professor of Marketing at EDHEC Business School. Prior to joining EDHEC, Professor Vanhamme was faculty member at Rotterdam School of Management and IESEG School of Management.
- Scientific Portfolio (an EDHEC Venture) Director of ResearchDiscipline: FinanceFaculty:Expertise:
- Assistant Professor , MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence ManagerDiscipline: Operations & Supply ChainFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Project Scheduling, Supply Chain, Operations ManagementCedric Verbeeck, PhD, is Professor of Operations management and Co-Director of the MSc in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at EDHEC Business School. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering from Ghent University.
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: Information SystemFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Digital and IT
- Professor of StrategyDiscipline: StrategyFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Mergers and Acquisitions and International ManagementPhilippe Very is professor of strategic management at EDHEC Business School, France. He is also Robert Reynolds Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Denver, Colorado.
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Corporate Finance, Venture CapitalMilos Vulanovic, Ph.D, is Professor of Corporate Finance at EDHEC Business School. He is teaching in various EDHEC programs. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from The Graduate Center at City University of New York.
- EDHECinfra Associate Director of ResearchDiscipline:Faculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Infrastructure Investment
- Professor , EDHEC Augmented Law Institute ResearcherDiscipline: LawFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: EU and US antitrust law, internal market law, digital platform regulationAnne Witt is a Professor of Law and a member of the EDHEC Augmented Law Institute. She gained her first law degree from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, an LLM from the University of Virginia (Fulbright scholar), and a PhD from the Univers
- EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute Senior Research EngineerDiscipline: Climate FinanceFaculty:Expertise: Risks, Finance, Stochastic analysis, Machine learning