Lotfi KAROUI

Lotfi Karoui is a lecturer in Management at EM Normandie and head of program in charge of the Cooperative Track of the Master Program in Le Havre. He teaches Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance. He was previously Associate Professor in Strategic Management at the Champagne School of Management and the Associate Dean for Research there. Over the last 10 years, he has consulted in Strategy, Business Development and Innovation Management for private SMEs and start-up firms in France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management (1993) from HEC Carthage (Tunisia) as well as an MPhil in Corporate Policy (1998) from the Université Paris Dauphine in France (1998) where he gained his PhD in 2009. His research work on boards of directors in small and medium-sized enterprises was recently awarded a special prize for the Best Research in Corporate Governance granted by the French Institute of Directors (IFA). His research interest covers Strategic Management and Corporate Governance issues in private SMEs, and in particular on the Leveraging of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurial and Family Firms.