Students and Faculty

As Academic Director of our finance and accounting Summer Programs, Professor Levyne oversees the portfolio and ensures consistency and evolution between the programs. His classes are enriched with diverse industry experts to complement the academics and ensure the real-world application of the content.

Professor Olivier Levyne has been teaching at HEC since 2007 and held the position of Affiliate Professor from 2013 to 2023. He joined the Education Track Faculty, as an Associate Professor within the Accounting and Control department, in 2024.

He has more than 30 years of experience in Investment Banking, initially in the Mergers and Acquisitions field, then as a Managing Director at CACIB, in charge of M&A and ECM operations within the financial institutions sector.

His teaching primarily revolves around corporate valuation, the market for control, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), financial accounting, financial institutions, financial and real options. He is responsible for teaching modules in the AFM, MEF, MAC and CEMS programs.

Olivier is also the Academic Director of the L'Oréal Academy that is dedicated to "Corporate growth fueled by deals with Private Equity funds". Furthermore, he is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine.

Olivier holds a degree from ESCP, a PhD in Economic Science and an Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Management Science; he is also qualified as a University Professor. He is an Officer of the Academic Palms, a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities, education and science.