Learn more about the governance of OMNES Education:
the Executive Chairman, the members of the Supervisory Board, the members of the Academic Advisory Board & the International Advisory Board, the members of the Research Department and finally the members of the Schools Department.
THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN – Marc-Henri DESPORTES
A former student of École Polytechnique and Mines-PSL, Marc-Henri Desportes has had a distinguished career, marked by high-level responsibilities in the public and private sectors, both in France and internationally. He has notably headed up the French tax authorities’ online access programme, the BNP Paribas Group’s IT department in Italy, and innovation and digital transformation strategies at Atos. He then led the development and expansion of Worldline, one of Europe’s leading digital payment companies, as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and then Chief Executive Officer.
Appointed Executive Chairman of the OMNES Education Group on 1 September 2025, his leadership, recognised for its high standards and commitment, is a valuable asset in supporting the group in pursuing its growth momentum, strengthening its competitiveness and openness to innovation, and giving new impetus to our ambitions to promote the employability and success of all our students.
Group Executive Committee
Marc-Henri DESPORTES, Executive Chairman
Laurent BERGERUC, Managing Director, Business & Communication Division
Marc BLANGY, IT Director
Christophe BOISSEAU, Academic Director
Eve Royer, Chief Human Resources Officer
François Stephan, Director of the Engineering Division, AI Director
Benoist ERAVILLE, Sales & Marketing Director
Marion FABRE, Executive Director of Schools (Business & Communication Division)
Guillaume THOMAS, Chief Financial Officer, Director of the International Division
Nathalie Khouzam, Chief Operating Officer, Director of the LLL Division
Grégory Blanchard, Group Secretary General
THE SUPERVISORY BOARD
It supports the strategic orientation and benefits from the presence of two professionals of international stature.
MATHIAS EMMERICH, PRESIDENT
Mathias EMMERICH is an alumnus of the ENS St Cloud, Sciences Po Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. Having previously held the positions of Executive Vice President Performance of SNCF Mobilités (2015-2019) and Secretary General of Publicis Groupe (2009-2013), he brings to OMNES Education his extensive management experience in various service sectors, particularly in public interest missions, as well as his digital expertise. Mathias EMMERICH has a particular interest in the academic world and educational issues, both in terms of his initial training and his ever-renewed taste for human, economic and social sciences.
BERNARD RAMANANTSOA, MEMBER
Engineer from Sup’Aéro and Doctor in Management Sciences from the University of Paris Dauphine, Bernard RAMANANTSOA was Dean of the Faculty and Research, then Director General of HEC for 20 years and member of several evaluation commissions (CEFDG, EQUIS) and development boards, in particular of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the École Navale and CEIBS in Shanghai. He received the Harvard Expansion Prize for Technology and Business Strategy (McGraw-Hill) and the Academy of Commercial Sciences Prize for Business Strategy and Diversification (Nathan). He recently published Learning and Daring and French Higher Education Across Borders: The Urgency of a Strategy.
ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD & INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
They contribute to the creation of academic value and are chaired by personalities whose career has been dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.
PR. PIERRE-ANDRÉ CHIAPPORI, CHAIRMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE IUM
Pierre-André CHIAPPORI studied at the École Normale Supérieure and holds an agrégation in mathematics and a PhD in economics from the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has been a lecturer at the EHESS and the École Polytechnique, director of research at the CNRS, and professor of economics at the ENSAE and the University of Chicago. He is now the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Chair in Economics at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, and the Review of Economis of Household and Foundations and Trends in Economic Theory. He is a member of the Research Council of the Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and a board member of the European Economic Association and joined the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 2019. A Monegasque, Pierre-André CHIAPPORI has been working with OMNES Education for the past 10 years to promote the Principality through the academic excellence of its international university.
THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
PR. CATHERINE KUSZLA
Catherine KUSZLA has been a University Professor in Management Sciences since 2011. She has been the Director of the Center for Research and Studies on Organizations and Strategy (CEROS) at the University of Paris Nanterre from 2019 to the present. His research interests focus on the relationship between strategy, governance and control, particularly in the context of innovation processes. She is currently the leader of an interdisciplinary ANR project dedicated to the study of the viability and sustainability of responsible business models. Finally, she has always been keen to place her work in a transdisciplinary perspective and at the center of political, social, environmental, and of course economic concerns, by participating, for example, in a European H2020 project (DEFORM / Governance of research practices) or in the development of a partnership chair within the Dauphine Foundation.
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
Strongly involved in the design and implementation of OMNES Education’s global strategy, the school and program directors are characterized by a passion for transmission, teaching experience, disciplinary and sector expertise, and an entrepreneurial spirit. In line with the realities of business and the advances in management science and pedagogy research, the teams adapt or renew their training programs in depth to guarantee the success of their students.
Dr. Laurent BERGERUC, Director of the Postgraduate Management Division, Director of OMNES Education Bordeaux & Director of MSc INSEEC
Dr. Christophe BOISSEAU, Group Academic Director, Director of OMNES Education Paris Cœur Défense
Damien BEZANCON, Director of OMNES Education Chambéry
Sylvain COULANGE, Director of OMNES Education Marseille Provence
Dr. Carl CRAEN and Luc CRAEN, Vice-President and Directors of EU Business School
Dr. Guillaume GARNOTEL, Director of INSEEC BBA & INSEEC Grande Ecole
Alexandre ROBIN-BÉNARDAIS, Director of the INSEEC MSc
Caroline LEBOUTET, Director of the INSEEC Bachelor’s Program
Elisabetta MAGNAGHI, Chief Executive Officer of ESCE
René ENGELMANN, Director, CREA Geneva
Marion FABRE, Director, OMNES Education Lyon, Director of the Undergraduate Management Division, Director of the INSEEC Bachelor’s Programme
Caroline GAUTIER, Director, OMNES Education London
Mireille MESSINE, Director, Digital Business DataScientest, IFG and CEI
Dr. Jean-Philippe MULLER, Managing Director & Dean, International University of Monaco
Étienne PORTEAUX, Director of Sup de Pub, Director of HEIP & CEDS, Director of OMNES Education Eiffel
François STEPHAN, Director & Dean of ECE
Edouard VAURY, Director of OMNES Education Rennes
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