Philippe PELE-CLAMOUR

Philippe Pelé-Clamour is an Adjunct Professor at HEC Paris and a member of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Family Business Center. His expertise includes family governance, board effectiveness, and intergenerational succession. He served as CEO of BIC for Central and Eastern Europe, following an early career at L’Oréal, and as an entrepreneur in media, industry, and venture capital. Having served as a second-generation member of his own family’s governance bodies, he brings to his teaching an uncommon firsthand understanding of family dynamics.

At HEC Paris, he teaches governance and strategy across Master’s, MBA, and Executive Education programs and serves as Academic Director of the Family Business Governance Certificate. He previously led the Executive MBA in partnership with the Graduate School of Management at Saint Petersburg University. Philippe is an independent director on the boards of several holding companies. He is regularly cited by Bloomberg, Fortune, Handelsblatt, and Challenges.

He holds a PhD in Management Sciences from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a degree from HEC Paris. He is a Foreign Trade Advisor of France, appointed by the Prime Minister, and a Fellow of the Institute of Higher National Defense Studies (IHEDN).