Distinguished Professor of Global Responsible Leadership, CEIBS

Nationality: France

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debettignies@ceibs.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

*1969, ITP, Harvard Business School

*1961, Dipl. EPP, Catholic University of Paris

*1960, Licence es Lettres, Sorbonne University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

*Culture and management in Asia

*Ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR)

*Top management and corporate transformation

*China-Europe interdependence

TEACHING INTERESTS

*Culture and management

*Human resource management

*Corporate transformation

*Ethics and corporate social responsibility

SHORT BIO

Professor Henri-Claude de Bettignies is Distinguished Professor of Global Responsible Leadership at CEIBS. He still holds AVIVA Chair Professor of Leadership and Responsibility at INSEAD. He was educated at the Sorbonne University and at the Catholic University of Paris, then at the Harvard Business School. He worked in Africa (MIFERMA, Mauritania), at the University of California (IIR, Berkeley), in New York (for IBM), and then in Tokyo during 5 years.

Professor since 1975 in INSEAD, he started up and developed INSEAD’s activities in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. This led, in 1980, to the creation of the Euro-Asia Centre, of which he was Director General until 1988. Professor de Bettignies is the Founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of Development and of Responsibility (CEDRE). He is a consultant to several major organizations in Europe the US and the Asia Pacific region. He is a member of several boards, including the main Board of Jones Lang LaSalle, the Academic Board of the University of Common Good, of VIGEO and of the Executive Centre for Global Leadership.

Professor de Bettignies has been giving lectures throughout Asia (where he spent a third of his time for the last 30 years), and across Europe, while creating and directing a number of executive programs - including one for Chairmen and CEOs (AVIRA) offered in the EU, the US and Asia. He is engaged currently in the development of globally responsible leadership and in the strengthening of the China-Europe interdependence through the production of knowledge, the development of relationships and the building of networks likely, overtime, to enhance mutual understanding.

Among the books published under his name are: The management of Change (1975), Business Transformation in China (1996), The Changing Business Environment in the Asia Pacific Region (1997), Trade & Investment in the Asia Pacific Region (1997) and he has co-authored Le Japon (1998) and with K. Goodpaster and L. Nash Business Ethics: policies and persons (2005). He has published more than 60 articles in business and professional journals. He is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Asian Business, The International Journal of Business Governance& Ethics, The New Academy Review, The Asian Academy of Management Journal, International Studies of Management and Organization, The Thunderbird International Business Review, Finance and Common Good.