Stéphanie Dameron is Professor of Strategic Management at Paris Dauphine University, France, where she runs the Chair "Strategy and Competitive Intelligence". She has been a Board member of Paris Dauphine University since 2012 and a member of the Supervisory Board of the ESSEC business school since 2016. Professor Dameron is the former chair of the French Academy of Management (2012-2014) and previously held the positions of Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management (2011-2015) and Associate Editor of the European Management Review in 2014. She was elected as Program chair of the Strategic Management Society's Strategy Practice Interest Group in 2014. Thomas Durand is Professor and Chair of Strategic Management at Cnam Paris, France. Professor Durand is a Fellow of the European Academy of Management (Euram), founding member of the European Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (EITIM), former president of both the International Association of Strategic management (AIMS) and the French Society of Management (SFM). He has published extensively in business strategy and innovation management. He was at Centrale Paris for 30 years and taught at HEC, INSEAD, Dauphine, the Stockholm School of Economics or Chalmers.
He has an extensive experience in executive education. They jointly co-authored and co-edited The Future of Business Schools: Scenarios and Strategies for 2020 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).