Frank Bournois

Frank Bournois (born 23 November 1962) is a French academic. He was appointed on 17 February 2023 to be the vice-president and dean of CEIBS, effective 1 April 2023. He was previously the Executive President and dean of ESCP Business School from August 2014 to January 2023, and professor of general management, European management and cross-cultural leadership at Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II). He specialises in the study of how very large corporate organisations identify, develop and manage their future top level leaders. Frank Bournois graduated from the Emlyon Business School in 1984 (France); and received an MBA in organisational psychology of Aston University (UK). He received a doctorate from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 1990, with a dissertation on The Management of Top Managers and the Development of High Potential Executives in large European Companies. After a professional start as an HR officer at Rhône-Poulenc, a professor of strategic Human resource management at ESC Lyon Business School then at IAE de Lyon (University of Lyon III), a senior lecturer (1993) then professor (1995) of international management. Visiting professor in several universities (Oxford, Cranfield School of Management, Utah, Liverpool). Between 2013 and 2014, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University in collaboration with Prof. :fr:Ezra Suleiman, IBM Professor in International Studies. He was appointed professor of management in 1995 at the University of Lyon III then at the Panthéon-Assas University in 1997. In 1996 he succeeded as director of at University of Lyon III. Defence : Artillery officer. Former auditor of the French National Institute for Defence Studies – IHEDN in 1996–1997. Head of the Department of Defence Studies at the French National Institute for Defence Studies (1997–2001). He initiated a large scale survey on business intelligence practices in all French companies with more than 250 employees. This survey was the first to be launched in France based on a large statistical sample of some 1,200 respondents.