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.
- EDHEC Augmented Law Institute Affiliate Researcher , EDHEC LecturerDiscipline: LawFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Intellectual property lawAn EDHEC Augmented Law Institute Affiliate Researcher and an EDHEC Lecturer, Eleonora Rosati is Full Professor of Intellectual Property (IP) Law and the Co-Director of the LLM in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University.
- Affiliate Professor , Co-Founder LN MarketsDiscipline:Faculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise:FinTech entrepreneur specialised in business development and data science.<br /> <br />
- ProfessorDiscipline: MarketingFaculty: MarketingExpertise: Marketing - Entrepreneurship and Innovation ManagementSabine Ruaud, PhD, is Professor in the Marketing Department where she is involved in a wide variety of teaching activities for Bachelor, Postgraduate and Executive programs.
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: EconometricsFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise:Mirco Rubin holds a Bachelor and two Master Degrees in Economics and Finance from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy and a Doctorate in Finance and Economics from the Swiss Finance Institute and Università della Svizzera Italiana in Luga
- Scientific Portfolio (an EDHEC Venture) Director of Business DevelopmentDiscipline: FinanceFaculty:Expertise:Shahyar is a capital markets professional with a 20-year track record in both sell-side and buy-side roles.
- Professor, Head of faculty - Accounting, Control & LawDiscipline: AccountingFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Financial AccountingElie Salameh, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Head of Accounting, Control & Law Department at EDHEC Business School. He teaches courses in managerial accounting, financial accounting, and financial statements analysis.
- EDHEC Climate Institute Senior Research Engineer - MacroeconomistDiscipline: Climate FinanceFaculty:Expertise:Nicolas Schneider is a Senior Research Engineer and Empirical Macroeconomist at EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute.
- EDHEC Climate Institute Scientific DirectorDiscipline: Climate FinanceFaculty:Expertise:
- Professor , Director of the PhD in Finance ProgramDiscipline: Business FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Liquidity, Banking, Asset ValuationEnrique Schroth joined EDHEC Business School in July 2019 as Professor in Finance. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at the Cass Business School, City University of London, the Amsterdam Business School and HEC Lausanne.
- EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA) Senior Researcher , Construct benchmarks and metrics for private assetsDiscipline: FinanceFaculty: Data Science, Economics & FinanceExpertise: Empirical Research, Corporate Finance, Asset PricingHe is passionate about empirical research in Finance and private asset markets. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented at several prominent academic and industry fora. He has received a Ph.D.
- Professor, Deputy Head of faculty -Management & Humanities , MSc in Creative Business & Social Innovation ManagerDiscipline: CultureFaculty: Management & HumanitiesExpertise: Intercultural Management
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: LawFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Employment law, Intellectual property law, Law of new technologies and , Legal risks associated with business start-upsDominique SERIO is Associate Professor of Law at EDHEC Business School with a specialization in innovation and new technologies for entrepreneurial projects.
- EDHEC Augmented Law Institute Affiliate ResearcherDiscipline: LawFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: LawAmmar Sharkatli, PhD, is Affiliate Professor of Law at EDHEC Business School. He holds a Doctorate in Corporate Law (University of Lille II). He has also been a lawyer at the Damascus Bar since 2004.
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- Associate Professor , Director of the MSc Global & Sustainable BusinessDiscipline: 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.
- Assistant ProfessorDiscipline: ManagementFaculty: Accounting, Control & Legal AffairsExpertise: Managerial Appointments and Compensation, Audit Firms' Human resources managementAmin Sofla is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting, Control & Law department at EDHEC Business School.
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship and Director of EDHEC EntrepreneursDiscipline: EntrepreneurshipFaculty:Expertise: Accompagner, fédérer et engager les entrepreneurs
- Associate ProfessorDiscipline: 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.
- Assistant ProfessorDiscipline: CommunicationFaculty: Management & HumanitiesExpertise: Culture, Gender Studies, CommunicationDr. Antonella Tempesta is an Assistant Professor at EDHEC Business School with a PhD in Culture, Gender, and Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, she brings a deep research background to her experiential teaching approach.
- 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: EntrepreneurshipFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial strategy, New Venture Teams, Deep Tech EntrepreneurshipJana Thiel is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at EDHEC Business School. Her research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategy.
- 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 an 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. Bastiaan has experience in consulting, academic research, and business education.
- 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:
- Assistant Professor , MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence DirectorDiscipline: Operations & Supply ChainFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Project Scheduling, Supply Chain, Operations ManagementCedric Verbeeck, PhD, is Professor of Operations management and Director of the MSc in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at EDHEC Business School. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering from Ghent University.
- 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.
- EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA) DirectorDiscipline: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 University
- Associate Professor , Global MBA Academic DirectorDiscipline: StrategyFaculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & OperationsExpertise: Strategy – Innovation – AI/DigitalDr. Ghassan Paul YACOUB is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Global MBA Academic Director at EDHEC Business School.
- EDHEC Climate Institute Senior Research EngineerDiscipline: Climate FinanceFaculty:Expertise: Applied Mathematics, Stochastic AnalysisFangyuan Zhang is a senior research engineer at EDHEC Climate Institute where she contributes to the research programme looking at the implications of climate change on asset prices and investment management.
- Assistant ProfessorDiscipline: MarketingFaculty: MarketingExpertise: Consumer behavior, new technology, autonomous productsJenny Zimmermann is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at EDHEC Business School. Prior to joining the EDHEC faculty, Jenny completed her PhD at the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology at the University of St.Gallen.