2025 emlyon intake: 14 new professors and health focus for the academic year
For the 2025–2026 academic year, emlyon business school announces the arrival of 14 new faculty members to strengthen the School’s academic excellence. This recruitment features high-level, international profiles with a strong focus on technology.
As a Mission-Driven company committed to socially and environmentally responsible practices, the School will place particular emphasis this year on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”
Enhanced appeal with the arrival of 14 new faculty members
Recruiting faculty is a strategic challenge for all higher education and research institutions. emlyon business school is proud to welcome 14 high-level new hires who embody the School’s values of excellence in education and research.
This recruitment is notably international, with 11 different nationalities represented and over 20% of the profiles being American. The total number of professors at emlyon now stands at 178, with 51% international faculty and 100% holding a PhD.
In terms of disciplines, the arrival of several professors in the tech field reinforces the School’s commitment to hybridizing expertise—connecting knowledge in management, strategy, marketing, and finance with topics such as telecommunications engineering, the anthropological effects of technology, and artificial intelligence.
List of emlyon’s 14 new professors:
Jordy BONY
Private Law
French nationality
Emmanuelle DUBOCAGE
Corporate finance, finance for social and environmental impact
French nationality
Jeoung Yul LEE
International Management
South Korean nationality
Arturo GUIZAR
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
French and Mexican nationality
Siri LAMOUREAUX
Anthropology and AI
American nationality
Charles LAWRY
Luxury and Art Marketing
American nationality
Ana MAO DE FERRO
Corporate and Sustainable Finance
Portuguese nationality
Yacine REKIK
Digitalized Supply Chain and AI Optimization
Franco-Tunisian nationality
Jeanne ROCHE
Social Entrepreneurship, Responsible Investment
French and Belgian nationalities
Sepehr SAFARI
Cyber-Physical Systems
Iranian nationality
Konan SENY KAN
Accounting, Corporate Governance, and CSR
Ivorian and French nationalities
Amanda WILLIAMS
Sustainable Corporate Strategy
American nationality
Hao YANG
Applied AI and Data Science for Real and Connected Systems
Chinese nationality
I am both happy and proud to welcome these 14 new professors, recognized experts in their fields. I wish them a warm welcome to emlyon. These recruitments reflect the School’s attractiveness and support our ambition for academic excellence, internationalization, and research-driven education. They ensure our students benefit from up-to-date knowledge and innovative pedagogy aligned with major socio-economic challenges
A new academic year focused on health and well-being
This year, the start of the academic year for emlyon’s various programs will be themed around SDG No. 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”
With mental health being France’s national cause for 2025 and the School’s “Healthcare Innovation, Technology & Society” Institute, emlyon aims to spotlight this sector and its related issues—from global pharmaceutical challenges to public health policy, mental health in elite athletes, and the risks and opportunities of AI in international disease research.
A series of conferences will mark the institutional kick-offs, featuring speakers such as Alain Mérieux, President of Institut Mérieux, Lugan Flacher, CEO of Drugoptimal, Raymond Le Moign, Director General of HCL, Anne Kuhm (MSc alumna, former Olympic gymnast, and author on athletes’ mental health), and Clément Chauvet, Director of Strategic Engagement at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Impact days featuring various social and environmental challenges and nearly 25 team-based missions linked to SDG 3 will also be part of the onboarding journey for new students.