December 02, 2008
International Advisory Board
  • The ESADE International Advisory Board consists of presidents, former presidents, vice-presidents and CEOs of important multinational companies. The Advisory Board meets annually to formulate an international strategic perspective, particularly in the identification of future needs and trends relating to international business personnel, in addition to the analysis and determination of how ESADE can respond to these projected needs.

    The success of any major Business School is derived in large part from the international credibility, recognition and as a result, voice that the school can galvanise, and project.

    The International Advisory Board of ESADE is an essential motor behind that strategic imperative of the school.

    Through their input, the members of the Board are therefore tasked with providing the school with support in three inter-related and complementary areas:
    Innovation: To enhance the innovative development of the curriculum and research focus.
    Relevance: To ensure that the school adresses the current and future global needs of business and society.
    Impact: To ensure that ESADE has the the specific capacity to deliver on it's stated objective of impacting on the future global development of management educution.
    The current members of the Board are:

  • Bernard Ramanantsoa
    Dean of HEC School of Management (France)

  • Michael C. Jensen
    Emeritus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (USA)


  • David Risher
    Former Senior Vice President (SVP) Amazon.com (USA)


  • Christine Lagarde
    Former Chair of Baker & McKenzie's Executive Committee (USA) and Minister of Finance (France)


  • Bernard Castaing
    Former Vice-President, Global Beauty Care, Procter & Gamble (UK)


  • Xavier Ferran
    Partner Lion Capital, Former CEO, Bacardi (USA)


  • Hanneke C. Frese
    Former Head, Capabilities Group - Zürich Financial Services (Switzerland)


  • Alex O. Lendi
    President & CEO, Lis International Company (Liechtenstein)


  • Mario Vaupel
    Head, ERGO Management Akademie (Germany)


  • Philippe Louvet
    Corporate Development & Training Director, L'Oréal (France)


  • Ingo Zuberbier
    Former Vice-President, Lintas World Wide (Germany)


  • Colin McElwee
    Director, Corporate Marketing, ESADE

  • "Taking part in a meeting with the members of the Board of ESADE is a fascinating experience. Quite naturally, challenging management concepts, ideas and theories crop up, which are transformed into new trends."

    Philippe Louvet
    Director of Corporate Development and Training for L'Oréal (Francia).