Lotfi KAROUI

Lotfi Karoui is Associate Professor at EM Normandie and Paris Campus Director. He teaches mainly Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and manages the growing Paris Campus with more than 1200 students and over 55 team members. He was previously Associate Professor in Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Research at the Champagne School of Management (2007-2011), and assistant professor and lecturer at Université Paris Dauphine and other French business schools. Over the last 20 years, he has consulted in Strategy, Business Development and Innovation Management for private SMEs and Technological Start-up firms in France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management (1993) from HEC Carthage (Tunisia) as well as a MPhil (DEA) in Corporate Policy (1998) from the Université Paris Dauphine in France (1998) where he gained his PhD in 2009. His research interest covers Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance issues in private SMEs, and in particular on the Leveraging of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurial and Family Firms. His research work on boards of directors in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises was published in international journal’s such us International Small Business Journal, Management International, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.