CV

Experiences

– University Professor (up to now)

– Creation of a consulting firm (intercultural conflicts solving, international management and intercultural communication).

– Director of the Social Observatory – worldwide – of Total (last position). 27 years at Total.

– Director of Communication and Press Relationships at the French Professional Union of Petroleum Industries

– Creator of the Intercultures and Geopolitics Department (Total)

– Work in more than 25 countries

Degrees

– PhD in Linguistics and Communication
– Post-graduate degree in Compared Sociology and Anthropology

– Degrees in English, Psychology, Literature and Sociology

teaching

– Stanford, Rugters , La Sorbonne Univ. (Paris and Abu Dhabi). France : INALCO, HEC, Univ. Paris XII, Galileo Institute, Business School of Paris Dauphine, EIGSI. Leuven Univ. (Belgium). Universities in Beijing (Tsinghua, CUPB…), Shanghai (Tongji, UTSEUS….), Guangzou, Chengdu. Bauman (Moscow), Casablanca (Morocco), Abu Dhabi, Koweit, Qatar. Teheran (Iran)

Recent publications and conferences:

-Opening conference 10th international Congress of Industrial Engineering :

The development of IE and interculturality

-Working effectively with our Belgian colleagues. Edition Palmis

-Antéis Think tank : Religions and Money

-Congress of the French Association of Coaching: conference Managing Cultures

-HR International Congress: HR and International Management

-L’Express : Tous bilingues, you too (citations)

Activities

– International Management and intercultural Communication

– Intercultural Cities : strategies, mapping, governance

– Intercultural conflicts solving on industrials sites or for service companies

– Intercultural and multicultural Communication

– Internal Barometers and employees Surveys (analysis worldwide)

– Intercultural and geopolitics : specific training for HP, directors, leaders…

– International HR

– Communication for private companies. Communication for international institutions.

Courses & Talks

Language: English
Planned duration: 15 hours Possibility to adapt the duration according to the demandPossibility to shorten this integrated week into a conference
Language: English
Planned duration: 3 to 6 hours (two 3-hour sessions)
Language: English
Planned duration: 5 half days
Language: English
Planned duration: Adjustable