Students and candidates

With a background in Management, Chaïma is graduated from EDHEC Business school and holds an Mphil in Management (Mines Paristech/ Nanterre University). She has evolved in different types of companies (NGO, SME, international firms) as an analyst. She is particularly interested in Social entrepreneurship.

Graduated in 2020 from Higher School of Economics with the bachelor degree in Logistics and SCM, Denis has acquired experience in maritime logistics and port management. He also has graduated from GSOM Business School, completing Master in Management program. Denis's main professional interests are collaborative efforts between corporations and social enterprises as well as strategic management of MNCs.

Originally from Iran, Azadeh earned her Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering and went on to study for a Master's in Strategic Human Resources Management at the University of Tehran. She has had the opportunity to work as a consultant in Human Resources Management and has been involved in several NGO initiatives. Equality and Gender Diversity are her primary areas of research interest.

Indian, Roscoe has varied experience of nearly 8 years in marketing, sales and education roles with different organisations in both, for and not-for profit sectors. His current research interests include institutions, organisations such as NGO's and social enterprises and justice issues such as modern slavery and human trafficking.

EDUCATION:

• 2015 - 2016: Ph.D in Management, emlyon business school, France
• 2009: Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing, TSM, India
• 2005: Post Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, EDI, India
• 2003: Bachelor in Accounting, HR College, Mumbai University

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Institutions and Organisations
• NGO's and Social Enterprises
• Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

From India, Soumyo's research examines corporate sustainability initiatives, focusing on how they are managed and organized to balance profits and purpose. In particular, he investigates the role and work of strategy and innovation actors in addressing the complexity challenges (e.g., uncertainty, ambiguity, dynamism) that characterize such endeavors. Prior, Soumyo read Information Technology at IIIT Bangalore, and worked in the BFSI industry as a digital transformations consultant.

EDUCATION:

• 2020 - 2022: M.Phil. in Management, emlyon business school, France
• 2017 - 2020: MS by Research in Information Technology & Society, IIIT Bangalore, India
• 2013 - 2017: Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, India

From Iran, Taha is an MBA graduate from IAU of Iran, with a background in engineering. He has more than ten years of professional experience in business development and marketing consultancy within various industries and several startups. He has developed his skills in quantitative methods and problem-solving and has prior experience in teaching and research assistantship. His research interests include Innovation Management and New Product Development.

Her research interests include entrepreneurial exit, careers of entrepreneurs post exits, social value creation through entrepreneurship programs, individual performance management and behavioral effect of incentives. She also has over 13 year experience as a Business Developer and Project Manager in International SMEs in the translation and circular economy industries and more recently at emlyon business school incubator.

EDUCATION:

• 2017: International Master in Business Administration, IAE Lyon, France

EPERIENCE:

• 2019 - 2020: Research Assistant, emlyon business school
• 2011 - 2019: Business Developper, Codeo Group, France
• 2007 - 2011: Translation project Manager, Birdwell Institute, France

EXPERTISE:

• Entrepreneurship, Incubators, Organizational Behavior, Circular Economy, Behavioral effects of Incentives.

From Germany & Argentina, Felix graduated from Lund University with a research M.Sc. in Psychology and a M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. His current research interest revolves about entrepreneurial behavior. Felix is a proponent of open science practices and has an interest in statistics

Rachel Le Marois graduated from Reims (France) in 2010 with a master's degree in Packaging Engineering and has since then been working for various kind of organizations such as multinational (Unilever and BAYER), SMB and Start up in the UK and in France. Her current research interests include organizational behavior, more specifically, the study of the organizational mechanisms regarding the management of the peoples who grow up with invisible differences.

Mehdi is an MBA graduate from Iran. With a background in engineering, he has nine years of experience in business development and consulting, particularly in the IT industry. He graduated from SUT, and his main interests are innovation management and technological collaboration.

Born and raised in Lebanon, Hussein has a background in institutional management. He graduated with a research master's degree from the Lebanese University in Management and Marketing. His thesis focused on human resources and gender studies. Hussein has had more than ten years of work experience in the public organizations sphere in Lebanon. His research interests scope areas such as strategy, leadership, and culture.

Afiteju is a Nigerian with over 5 years of experience working for non-profit organizations. She holds a Master in International Management and Sustainability from Sciences Po (Paris), where she simultaneously held a student researcher role at the Sciences Po Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). Her main interests are social innovation, impact measurement, sustainability, partnerships, and strategy.

Having 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years in management consulting (Alvarez&Marsal) in the performance improvement practice, Dmitrii obtained an MSc in Management from iaelyon, where he performed a study of individual perception of suddenly relocated consultants of their identity and work practices change. His qualitative research interest focuses on knowledge intensive industries, particularly management consulting.
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Cristian comes from Colombia. He holds an M.Sc. in Business Administration from Radboud University in the Netherlands together with an M.Phil. in System Dynamics Modelling. Cristian's academic interests are driven primarily by tackling complex managerial and societal challenges. His research focuses on modelling the conceptual, methodological and empirical challenges n achieving sustainable pathways of diffusion towards sustainable, healthy, circular and resource-efficient food systems.

EDUCATION:

• 2017: M.Sc. in Business Administration and M.Phil. in System Dynamics Modelling, Radboud University, Joint diploma from Bergen University, Palermo University and Lisbon University
• 2013: Bachelor Science of Economics, University Icesi, Colombia

AWARDS:

• 2015 - 2017: European Master in System Dynamics - Consortium Scholarship. Erasmus Mundus programme funded by the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the Commission of the European Communities

EXPERIENCE:

• 2018 - On Going: Research Assistant : System dynamics modelling, emlyon business school, France
• 2017 - 2017: Teaching Assistant at the faculty of management : his main responsibility was to lecture seminars and support bachelor and pre master students with their assignments for the courses Methods of Research and Interventions, and Qualitative Research Methods. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• 2017 - 2017: Supply Chain Modelling Internship : his main responsibility was to update and extend a quantitative supply chain model for Toon which is one of the innovations of the company, as well as elicit information from the stakeholders through group model building sessions. Eneco Group in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

EXPERTISE:
His professional interest rely in tackling complex managerial problems using systems thinking and computer simulation approaches. His current research focus is to understand drivers of sustainable market transformations.

ASSOCIATIONS:
System Dynamics Society since 2015 on going

Yineng was graduated from Warwick Business School with a master degree of science in management. Before entering WBS, she studied French and International Economics and Trade in China. Her research interests include innovation management and international business.

Coming from China, Qiushi graduated from ESSEC Business School's Master in Management program in France. He is interested in the topic of strategic innovation, more specifically, how do organizations make strategic innovations and how do they make decisions based on these innovations.