Our professors

Paola Aybar Jimenez is an associate professor at ICD Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Bordeaux and has received the MCF accreditation from the CNU, section 6. Her doctoral work earned her the Best Thesis in Humanities and Social Sciences award from the university's doctoral college. Trilingual in Spanish, English, and French, she has extensive research and teaching experience, particularly in France, the United States, and Latin America. Her teaching areas include management, corporate strategy, economics, international business, research methodology, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). She has presented her work at leading international conferences, such as the International Conference on Digital, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Financing, where she won the Best Young Researcher Paper Award for her study titled "Coping with Digital Innovation Impacting Small Family Firms in the Dominican Republic", later published in Gestion 2000. Her research focuses primarily on small and family-owned businesses, exploring topics such as financing, digital innovation, and strategy. Highly dedicated to collaborative projects, she has led and coordinated innovative international research initiatives, mainly supported by the European Union.

Areas of expertise

• Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Family businesses
• Financing
• Digital innovation

Maksim Belitski joined ICD Business School in September 2019.  He holds several international positions, including University of Reading (UK) and the Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University Bloomington (USA).  He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Leicester, UK, and another PhD in Economics from the University of Milan, Italy.Type the text here

Areas of expertise

• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Academic entrepreneurship
• Knowledge spill overs and collaboration
• Regional economics
• A particular focus on knowledge and creativity

I am editor of Small Business Economics Journal (rank 2 FNEGE) and Electronic Commerce: Research and Applications (rank 3, FNEGE).

Khaoula Ben Zarb is an Associate Professor of Strategy at ICD Business School Paris, where she also serves as Head of Quality and International Accreditation. She holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and is qualified as a Maître de Conférences in Management Sciences by the National Council of Universities (CNU). Her research interests include innovation management, contextual ambidexterity, and entrepreneurship. She is actively involved in academic associations. She is a member and assistant administrator of the Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (AEI) and a research fellow at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Areas of expertise

• Innovation management
• Management of organisational ambidexterity
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship

Cynthia Blanchette holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the prestigious Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and is qualified by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) section 06. Her interdisciplinary research interests lie in the field of Human Resources Management, with a particular focus on internal mobility and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Her work also focuses on employability, career anchors, artificial intelligence and pedagogy. She studies large organizations in France, Quebec and Canada. Cynthia Blanchette is also very active, involved and committed to academic and professional associations, as an elected member of AGRH, a member of the AGRH publications commission, a member of the FNEGE journal ranking commission, a member of the AFNOR employability and inclusion commission, a member of ANDRH, and more.

Areas of expertise

• Internal Mobility Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Employability
• Career Anchors
• Artificial intelligence
• Pedagogy

Amina Boumaza is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at ICD Business School, where she is, among other responsibilities, in charge of the Luxury major. She completed her PhD in Information and Communication Sciences at Aix-Marseille University in 2020. Her research focuses on luxury marketing, communication, and social media.

Areas of expertise

• Digital Marketing
• Luxury Marketing
• Communication

Houyem Chaib is a lecturer in Strategy and International Business at ICD. She holds an MBA and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). Her research and teaching span a range of topics in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business. She has a particular interest in the impact of the external environment on strategy in organizations trying to become top innovators; top management decision-making and corporate performance. She supervises students' research at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Areas of expertise

• Strategic management
• Innovation
• International management

Léo-Paul Dana is a Professor at ICD Business School Paris. A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montréal, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor at INSEAD and Kingston University. He has published widely in various journals, including: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of World Business, Small Business Economics, et Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Areas of expertise

• Entrepreneurship
• International business
• Wine business

Philippe Fache's research explores a number of themes, including: the sociology of work and socio-history of public policies: the retail sector with several publications devoted to labour management policies in the retail sector (including diversity management): the health sector with research on the management of the quality of healthcare through the use of performance measurement and assessment systems (quality indicators and reviews), assessment tools from the doctrinal corpus of the New Public Management approach; the link between the emergence of policies to regulate the quality of healthcare and changes in work in hospital structures comparing France with Quebec (ANR-CNRS / PRIQS project). Currently exploring the training and employment of young artists (survey on the Academy of the Comédie Française).

Areas of expertise

• Sociology of work and management
• Socio-history of public policies

Dr Christian Goglin is associate professor at ICD Business School where he heads the "Centre d’Expertise en Data & IA".

After scientific university studies in computer science and mathematics applied to quantitative finance, his career began in the financial software publishing sector, as a quantitative engineer and then as a consultant in FO/MO and Risk Management software at Thomson Reuters. He then turned to management consulting after completing a "Mastère Spécialisé" in management at École Centrale Paris engineering school and has worked with various Parisian financial institutions (SGIB, BP2S…) on transformation projects, specially the implementation of Basel regulatory requirements.

In a second phase, his career turned towards academic research, he obtained a PhD in Management Sciences, awarded the 2019 FNEGE prize for the best transdisciplinary thesis and focused on the study of investor decisional bias. Upon joining ICD Business School, he took responsibility for Capital Market, Artificial Intelligence and Business Ethics courses. He then decided to reorient his research work towards Fair Machine Learning applied to financial sector, a field of research integrated into the broader field of Artificial Intelligence Ethics.

Areas of expertise

• Artificial Intelligence Ethics (specially Fair Machine Learning applied to financial sector)
• Behavioral Finance (specially affective investor bias)
• Financial Instruments, Capital Markets and and Bank Risk Management

Nabil El Hilali is a professor Researcher at ICD Business School and the head of the marketing department. In a transdisciplinary perspective, he holds dual Ph.D. in management Science from Audencia Business School / University of Nantes and Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Author of a Ph.D. dissertation on design management in its interaction with marketing management, his research focuses on design management, new product development, innovation management, design thinking and design management.

As an academic, he has published in distinguished scientific journals such "Innovation", "Journal of Innovation Economics & Management". He is editorial board for The Design Journal and reviewer of Design management conference Institute in Boston and has participate in international conferences such Design Research Society, European Academy of Design, Francophone Research Network Design, Tokyo International Association of Societies of Design Research, Boston Design Management Academy Conference, Hong-Kong Design Management Academy Conference and Design Management Conference Cambridge.

Areas of expertise

• AI & Marketing Management
• Design Management
• Design Thinking
• Innovation Management
• New Product Development
• Semiotic Studies

Nadia El Nemr is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at ICD Business School. She earned her PhD in Management Sciences and a Master's in Tourism and Culture Engineering from Le Havre Normandy University, along with a Bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management from the Lebanese University of Beirut. Her research focuses on the tourism and hospitality sector, with particular interests in consumer behavior and managerial decisions related to pricing and marketing strategies.

Areas of expertise

• Consumer behavior
• Tourism & Hospitality Marketing
• Luxury Marketing

Florian Escoubes is an Associate Professor at ICD Business School on the Toulouse campus of Groupe IGENSIA Education (formerly Groupe IGS). With an initial background in Sports Science (STAPS), he joined the Toulouse IAE for his Master's studies to specialize in sports management. In 2009, he entered the doctoral program at TSM Research, where he completed his thesis in management sciences (marketing) entitled "Considering Implicit Cognitions and Affective Reactions in Measuring the Effects of Sports Sponsorship", which he defended in November 2014. This doctoral work was awarded the Thesis Prize from the Sports Economy Observatory, which biennially honors the best national thesis in sports economics and management. In 2015, Florian Escoubes joined the Toulouse School of Management as an associate researcher, later becoming the co-director of the Master's program in Sports Management in 2018. After collaborating with various academic institutions, he joined ICD Business School in January 2021 as associate professor. In addition, Florian Escoubes has also developed a consulting and data analysis practice. He is now nationally recognized for his expertise in the field of promotional items, collaborating repeatedly with the professional federation of promotional objects (2FCPO) and several major economic players in this industry. He also advises sports management stakeholders (FFF, TFC, Médoc Marathon, Paris-Versailles Race, 24 Hours of Le Mans, etc.), particularly on measuring sports spectators' expectations and conducting satisfaction studies.

Areas of expertise

• Consumer behavior
• Analysis of the effects of promotional items (employer brand and consumers)
• Impact of employers' CSR initiatives on employer brand attractiveness
• Analysis of sports spectators' expectations and the evolution of the fan experience

Alexandre Guttmann is an associate professor at the ICD Business School in Paris, specializing in urban commons, platform cooperatives, and the ecological transition. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, where his thesis, Urban Development Platforms, Knowledge Cities, and Sustainable Development: The Political Economy of Urban Commons in the Context of Climate Change, explored the viability of urban commons as an organizational model to address critical climate challenges in urban settings. With a strong research and teaching background, Alexandre Guttmann has developed expertise in the Anthropocene, particularly on how climate change will reshape the economy of the future. His work has been published in esteemed journals, including Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, and Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research. In addition to his research, he has taught a range of courses on topics such as alternative organizations, the Anthropocene and climate change challenges, mixed economy models of capitalism, environmental economics, urban economics, and international trade at ICD Business School, Sciences Po, and Sorbonne Paris Nord.

Areas of expertise

• Commons
• Cooperatives
• Ecological Transition
• Economy International

Farès Hayder holds a PhD in Management Sciences, with a specialization in Strategic Management. He is a certified Associate Professor and currently serves as Vice Dean of ICD Business School Toulouse. With 18 years of experience in both public and private higher education, his teaching covers the areas of organization, entrepreneurship, strategic management, and innovation management. His research focuses on collaborative innovation drivers, especially within the biopharmaceutical sector. Alongside his academic career, Farès Hayder has also worked as an entrepreneur and business consultant.

Areas of expertise

• Strategic management
• Innovation management
• Knowledge management
• Entrepreneurship
• Organization

A former start-up entrepreneur and banker (18 years of professional experience), Janine Hobeika's research and teaching focuses on customer relations, the banker stereotype, attitudes to money, incidents, gender, CSR and AI (9 years of teaching experience).

Areas of expertise

• Marketing
• Digital technologies
• Client relationships
• Banking

Naouel Makaoui has a PhD in management science and is a professor of purchasing and supply chain management at ICD Business School, Paris Campus since 2011. Her research interests are customer-supplier relationships, business-to-business marketing, E-procurement and organizational buyer behaviour. She has published several chapters in specialist books and articles in academic journals such as: Supply Chain Forum, Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, Logistique et Management, Revue Française du Marketing, Question(s) de Management, La revue des Sciences de Gestion.

Areas of expertise

• Purchasing Performance
• Innovation
• Business Relationships

Areas of expertise

Jean-Claude Malarre holds a PhD in Economics and a DEA in Money Finance & Banking (University of Paris 10 Nanterre).

• Teaching of quantitative techniques and Excel spreadsheet in the modelling of economic and management problems.

With 14 years of experience in the area of digital technology as a web project manager for corporate accounts, Éric Martel is a professor and researcher in digital transformation and digital marketing. Although his doctoral studies focused on the marketing of services, he now devotes his research to the transformations brought about by the arrival of artificial intelligence in various sectors. He has also published a book that addresses the delicate issue of the transfer of decision-making to autonomous systems in the military field.

Areas of expertise

• AI
• Big Data
• Machine learning
• Digital marketing
• Marketing of services

Boris Maynadier is professor at ICD Business School Toulouse. He teaches branding, marketing, research design and qualitative methodologies, communication strategy, and innovation marketing. He uses a great diversity of teaching methods and tools, often in partnership with companies, to build knowledge in collaboration with his students. As a practitioner, he works with young firms as consultant or marketing director (e.g., Innersense, an AR start-up), and with politicians and place managers to help them implement development strategies. His wider approach involves building a constructivist-structuralist view of marketing.

Areas of expertise

• Marketing
• Qualitative research methods (ethnography, interviews, qualitative analysis)
• Semiotics (structural)
• Place marketing
• Experiential marketing
• Consumer experience (phenomenology)

Samuel Mayol holds a PhD in Management Sciences and is accredited to supervise research (HDR). He is the director of the LaRA-ICD research laboratory. He served as the director of the IUT of Saint Denis for 10 years. He is also a Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms and was awarded the National Laïcité Prize in 2015. As a collection editor at Ellipses, his research focuses on the factors influencing consumer behavior. Samuel Mayol has published numerous articles and books on this subject.

Areas of expertise

• Marketing
• Music and Marketing
• Consumer Behavior

Manel Mzoughi is a marketing and management professor (7 years of experience in a number of public and private institutions) and a marketing researcher with a particular expertise in the field of child consumer behaviour and the usefulness of marketing in the health care sector. Her thesis and current research focus on the study of children's attitudes towards packaging innovations.

Areas of expertise

• Marketing to children
• Customer relations
• Healthcare marketing
• Digital marketing

Anne-Charlotte Olczyk is a clinical psychologist and engineer in multimodal pedagogy. She has over 8 years of experience in private higher education, where she has been responsible for various programs. Since 2022, she has been a member of the DICEN-IDF laboratory and a teaching researcher at ICD Business School. She is currently a PhD candidate in Information and Communication Sciences at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Her research focuses on higher education, new learning frameworks, student support, and the role of professors in the learning process.

Areas of expertise

• Pedagogy & Alternative Pedagogy
• Team Management
• Change Management
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Intercultural Relations

Kevin Pastier, is Assistant Professor in the department of Management at ICD Business School, Paris. He is a PhD student at the CNAM in Paris (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). His doctoral studies explore democratic firms and organisations, such as worker and consumer co-operatives, social enterprise, participatory management and sociocracy / holacracy. His teaching areas are social economy, alternative entrepreneurship and organization/management theory and practices.

Areas of expertise

• The democratic firm and organisation
• Critical and historical management studies
• New management practices

Jonathan Peillex is Associate Professor at ICD International Business School. He is also Research Fellow at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Picardie Jules Verne and an HDR research supervisor qualification (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from the University of Grenoble. His research focuses on finance and business ethics. Recent research has been published in academic journals such as British Journal of Management, Ecological Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Comparative Economics, among others.

Areas of expertise

• Finance
• Business Ethics
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Ikram Radhouane joined ICD in 2018 as a researcher and lecturer. She holds a PhD in management sciences from Aix Marseille University, France. She has thirteen-years of experience teaching in higher education and in professional training centres in the fields of information systems, computer sciences and accounting. Her main research interests include corporate social responsibility and environmental performance. She has published a number of papers on these themes in national and international refereed journals, and plays an active role at ICD in the School's work across themes related to ethics, responsibility and sustainability.

Areas of expertise

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Supply chain
• Computer Science
• Accounting

David Rutambuka has a PhD management and marketing from Paris Dauphine University (2017). His research principally explores the field of finance and marketing, especially the relationship between mergers and acquisitions and customer satisfaction. At ICD Paris Business school, he teaches marketing, market research, marketing data analysis, research methodology and customer relationship management. As part of the Erasmus+ mobility programme, he has taught in Kazakhstan (2018), Azerbaijan and Tunisia (2019) for short assignment as visiting professor. When living in Rwanda, he was operations manager of Business Development Services centres (BDS) for three years, where he helped businesses to succeed through: business analysis, bankable business plan writing, networking events organization, facilitating access to finance by linking entrepreneurs to banks, etc.

Areas of expertise

• Customer relationship
• Market research
• Marketing data analysis
• Business development services

Areas of expertise

• Management
• Human Resources

Before joining academic life, Dr. Tan Tran developed business and management experience working at large Corporations, such as 3M and SONDEX A/S. In his last position as a country manager at SONDEX A/S, his customer portfolio covered a wide range of industrial segments, such as Food & Beverage, Dairy, Petrochemicals, Construction, Power Plants, Semi-conductors, Marine & Offshore, and Pharmaceuticals. This work involved integrating his company's products into the customer's production technologies, a downstream process that brings innovative products to the market. Concerning the upstream process by which new products are invented, Dr. Tran is always curious to understand how firms (and/or inventors) innovate, how they search for new knowledge, whether regional technological and scientific context can facilitate the search process, and to what extent interdependence between science and technology guides the search activities. Dr. Tran has presented the results of his research at various international conferences, such as SMARTER on Smart Specialization and Territorial Development, EU Cohesion Policy, and Geography of Innovation.

Areas of expertise

• Science & Technology relationships
• Knowledge & Innovation Policy
• Geography of Innovation
• Big Data and Data Analytics

Romain ZERBIB is a professor (HDR-qualified to supervise research) at ICD Business School and LaRA research laboratory. He is also associate researcher for the ESSEC Chair of Managerial Innovation and Operational Excellence (IMEO). His research focuses on the dynamics of dissemination and adoption of new management systems within organisations. In this respect, he explores the sources of conformism and innovation #modemanageriale #innovationmanageriale. He is in charge of teaching innovation (ICD BS), head of the MBA Consulting and Business Strategy (ICD BS), a member of the editorial board of the journal Management & Data Science (MDS) and editor in chief of the Revue des Sciences de Gestion (RSG). His teaching focuses on Strategy and Marketing.

Areas of expertise

• Strategy
• Marketing