In line with its strategy for Faculty recruitment for the period 2004/05 to 2008/09, ESSEC welcomes a further 4 full-time professors in early-2007, bringing the total new arrivals for the current academic year to 11 full-time professors (for a grand total of 115) and 4 post-doctoral researchers.

Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Andreas Kaplan, Anca Meitu, and Gérard Puyou de Pouvourville bring with them a wealth of expertise, as well as an international profile that fits perfectly with ESSEC’s ambition to create as diverse a Faculty as possible.
Their respective academic track records add to an already impressive list of professors to have arrived since September 2006 and serve to back up the ethos behind the current recruitment policy:

"It is our firm belief that the quality of a higher education institution is, first and foremost, a reflection of the quality of its Faculty. Great importance is therefore attached to the recruitment of the very best professors, in whom we look for academic excellence, an international profile, and the spirit of initiative." Marie-Laure Djelic, Dean of the Faculty

On a more general scale, the objectives are clear for ESSEC – by 2008/09, the projected total number of full-time professors will have risen to 128 which, taking into account retirements as well as new recruits, will amount to 50 new arrivals over the course of five academic years.
It is our great pleasure to be able to welcome four of them at the beginning of our centenary year.