Faculty: Professors and Research activity at ESSEC Business School

Faculty and Research

Create, transfer and share knowledge

ESSEC bases its reputation on a top-flight faculty, whose members, hailing from 29 countries, were educated in the world’s most prestigious institutions. Our educational excellence has enabled us to receive the most respected international accreditations. In addition to passing on knowledge, the school is also adept at advancing knowledge in the management disciplines thanks to the quality of its faculty and an institutional culture that fosters research. Ample resources are devoted to this activity in order to support the faculty’s original work and disseminate it to both the private sector and society as a whole.

Educational excellence

“ESSEC is an academic institution of excellence where research supports instructional design and business consulting on a daily basis. The school’s 122 full-time faculty and 13 professors emeritus, graduates of the world’s finest universities, carry on ESSEC’s world-renowned tradition for superior academic quality. ESSEC’s ambitious dynamism draws its greatest strength from a faculty capable of combining the richness of its European heritage with the complexity of a global world."

Vincenzo Esposito-Vinzi, Dean of Faculty

The faculty in figures

122 permanent professors 13 professors emeritus
42% foreign professors
29 different nationalities
8 departments

World-class research at ESSEC

“ESSEC stands out among French business schools with an institutional culture that strongly promotes research. Over 30 years ago, the school initiated its drive to become a top-level center of management research, and this focus has only intensified in recent years with the recruitment of high-caliber faculty who excel in research. ESSEC professors now contribute widely to the development of knowledge in the management field and our research output compares very favorably to that of the best European and international schools.

Papers in academic journals, books, articles in business magazines and presentations by professors at national and international conferences attest to the vitality of the research program at ESSEC.”

Radu Vranceanu, Director, Research Center