Thierry BOUDESAssociate Professor ESCP EUROPE

Thierry Boudès is a professor of strategy and project management at ESCP Europe. He graduated from ESSEC Business School with an M.Sc. in Management and earned his Doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique. Professor Boudès began his career in information systems consulting, then for five years worked in the field of executive education for the EDF/GDF Institute of Management. After this he joined DIFER Conseil, a company specializing in business training and change management where he worked for five years as a consultant. He has been a professor at ESCP-EAP since 2000. He attaches special importance to serious play in his teaching practices. Regarding international experience, he has been visiting scholar in 2002 at the Universtity of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business) and visiting professor at HEC Montréal in 2007-2008. His research is concentrated on the narrative processes in organizations, and the narrative dimensions of strategy and project management. Managers are not only counting, they are recounting.