Faculty directory

Dr. Natalia AGREL spent over 10 years in the event and business travel industry, providing consultancy to both the public sector and private businesses on strategic planning, positioning, and branding of destinations and hospitality facilities worldwide. After earning her PhD in Strategy, she has focused her research on culinary contests and other events, investigating how […]

Doctor of Management Science, specialising in human resources. Her research focuses on organisational behaviour, with a particular emphasis on employee engagement in the hospitality industry.

Doctor of Engineering, HDR. Food Science, Nutrition, Psychology. She researches the role of the senses in food preferences and behaviour and the potential of gastronomic solutions to compensate for taste alterations. 

Holder of a PhD in hotel marketing and an HDR in management sciences. 9 years of experience in the hospitality industry, working in the food and beverage sector. Published over 40 articles in leading academic journals. Editor of the Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights.

PhD from the Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Beckett University. Research areas: ethical consumption and corporate social responsibility integration […], the role of behavioural economics in revenue management development in tourist destinations.

Holder of a PhD and HDR in management sciences, as well as a CAP (certificate of professional competence) in cooking. His research focuses on consumer behaviour and culinary tourism experiences. Teaches experiential marketing, personal brand management, packaging design and consumer behaviour in the luxury hotel sector. Also manages the Capstones module (setting up pop-up restaurants).

PhD in hospitality management from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research interests include organisational behaviour and areas of human resource management such as leadership, employee motivation, employee work commitment and entrepreneurship. 

Bringing theory and research together. An entrepreneur for 10 years in the finance sector, he holds a PhD in Strategic Management/Entrepreneurship. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and business takeover, and more specifically on team dynamics (leadership, communityship, team characteristics, governance…).

Dr. Li DING received her doctoral degree from Oklahoma State University in the U.S. She is teaching Hospitality Financial Management-related courses. Dr. Ding’s research interests include hospitality financial management, strategic management, and sustainability. She has published research articles in top-tier journals and serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Responsibility.

PhD in Management Sciences. She teaches strategic and operational marketing, strategic management and consumer behaviour. Her research focuses on the internationalisation of organisations. 

She holds a PhD in Management Sciences and did a postdoctoral study in Work Management. She is passionate about research in HR and workspace management; her work has been published in several journals.

10 years’ experience in consulting on digitisation of HR functions in France and abroad. She is a trained CSR and Sustainable Development Project Manager. She teaches HR, CSR, diversity management and sustainable project management.

She started her career by ensuring management control within a restaurant group. Her career path led her to purchasing in a central purchasing office specialising in hotels and restaurants, where she was responsible for food purchasing.

He earned his Ph.D. in Management from EMLYON Business School and a specialized M.Sc. in Wine Management From OIV and Montpellier SupAgro. His research is focused on the organization of professionals and the sustainability of their model, so far, mostly in the wine and healthcare industries. At the Institute he teaches topics related to Management, […]