100 Notable alumni of HEC School of Management

Renaud Laplanche is a French-American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder and CEO of the fintech company, Upgrade, Inc. Prior to founding the company, Laplanche co-founded and served as the CEO of Lending Club, an American peer-to-peer lending company, for a decade. Before his tenure at Lending Club, he also co-founded and led TripleHop Technologies, the maker of...

Alain Taravella is a French entrepreneur, billionaire who is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Altarea SCA real estate group.

Jean-Claude Guibal was a member of the National Assembly of France. From 1997 to 2017, he represented the 4th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes department, and was a member of The Republicans since 2015. From 1989 until his death in 2021, he served as mayor of Menton during 6 consecutive terms.

Paul Vilar was a French author and writer of novels, tales and essays.

François d'Aubert is a French politician.

Bernard Ramanantsoa was the Dean of HEC Paris between 1996 and 2015.

Maël de La Lande de Calan is a French politician who has served as President of the Departmental Council of Finistère since 2021. He has been a departmental councillor for the canton of Saint-Pol-de-Léon since 2015, as well as a municipal councillor of Roscoff since 2014. De Calan ran in the 2017 The Republicans leadership election, placing third.

Saskia Anna Esther Maria del Mar de Rothschild is a French journalist and businesswoman. She became chairwoman of the Domaines Barons de Rothschild in 2018 and chief executive officer in 2021.

Božidar Đelić is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in the Government of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and later as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Science...

Bernard Brochand was a French politician, businessman, football executive, and football player. A member of The Republicans, he served in the National Assembly for Alpes-Maritimes's 8th constituency from 2001 to 2022. His constituency covered the Riviera resort of Cannes.

Flore Vasseur is a French film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, journalist and entrepreneur. Her first feature-length documentary film, Bigger Than Us (2021), premiered in the Cinema for the Climate section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 2022 César Award for Best Documentary Film.

Michel Le Bris was a French writer.

Béchir Ben Yahmed was a Tunisian-French journalist. He founded the weekly news magazine Jeune Afrique and served as its CEO. He also founded the newspaper La Revue.

Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ is a French Catholic religious sister who has served as an undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops since 2021. She is the first woman to hold such a position and the first to have voting rights in the Synod. She is a member of the Congregation of Xavières.

Gilles Schnepp is a French business executive. He was the Chairman and chief executive officer of the Legrand Group between March 2006 and February 2018, and then chairman until 2020.

Loïc Féry is a French businessman. He worked as a financial trader in Hong Kong and the City of London from 1997 to 2007, for Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. He founded the investment firm Chenavari in 2007 and became the owner of football club FC Lorient in 2009.

Mercedes Erra is a French business woman who was born 23 September 1954 in Sabadell.

Jean-Marc Janaillac is a French businessman best known for being a former CEO of Air France–KLM.

Florence Noiville, a French author and journalist, is a long time staff writer for Le Monde and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the literary supplement of Le Monde.

Loïc Le Meur is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics.

Philippe Brun is a French politician from the Socialist Party who has represented Eure's 4th constituency in the National Assembly since 2022. He graduated from HEC Paris, Sciences Po and ENA.

Olivier Ferrand was a French civil servant and public intellectual. He was the founder of Terra Nova, a prominent centre-left think tank in Paris. In June 2012 he was elected to the French Parliament. He died of a heart attack shortly afterwards, aged 42.

Philippe Oddo is a French financier and a managing partner of the ODDO BHF group.

Jacques Georges was the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) from 1968 until 1972 and the 4th president of UEFA (1983–1990).

Frédéric André Jousset is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist and racing driver. He co-founded Webhelp in 2000 and sold it to Concentrix in 2023 on a $4.8 billion valuation. Patron of the arts, he created the foundation Art Explora and its investing arm ArtNova in 2019 and runs the Compagnie Financière Jousset (CFJ) which finances companies in the industrial, technology or...

Nicolas Georges Norbert Dufourcq is a French businessman. He has been the general manager of the Banque Publique d’Investissement (Bpifrance) since its creation in January 2013.

Nessim Jacques Canetti was a French music executive and a talent agent. Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Mathilde (Mazal) (née Arditti) Canetti. He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905–1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911–1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute. Canetti studied at the École...

Nadia Fettah Alaoui is a Moroccan entrepreneur and politician. Since October 2021, she is the current Minister of Economy and Finance in the Cabinet of Aziz Akhannouch.

Salif Traoré, better known by his stage name A’salfo, is an Ivorian singer. He is the lead singer of the group Magic System. He has a career spanning more than twenty years, punctuated by several albums and distinctions for his actions through music, but also community development. The Anoumabo Urban Music Festival was created in 2008 under his leadership, and...

Nicolas Daragon, is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who became mayor of Valence in 2014 and vice-president of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in 2016.

Jacques Jean Alphonse Houstraëte, professionally known as Jacques Morel, was a French film and television actor. He was the French language voice of the cartoon character Obelix in the animated adaptation of the Asterix comic book.

Jean-François Carenco is a French civil servant and politician who served as Minister Delegate for the Overseas in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2023. Following his appointment by President François Hollande, he previously served as president of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) from 2017 to 2022.

Loïc J. D. Wacquant is a French sociologist specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography.

Marguerite Cazeneuve is a French specialist in social affairs, health and pensions. She is an adviser of President Emmanuel Macron.

Jean-René Cazeneuve is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Gers.

Laurence Debray is a French writer, daughter of Régis Debray and Elizabeth Burgos.

Pierre Bellon was a French billionaire businessman, the founder of Sodexo, a multinational food service and facilities management company.

Hubert Joly is a businessman and Harvard Business School faculty member who formerly served as chairman and CEO of Best Buy. He is also the former president, CEO and director of Carlson, a global hospitality and travel conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.

François Pérol is a French banker and high-ranking official and is the current chairman of Natixis.

Alexandre Mars is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. He is an ambassador and board member of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Charles Pépin is a French philosopher and novelist. He was born in Saint Cloud in 1973. He is the author of several bestsellers, such as Les Vertus de l’échec, La Confiance en soi (Allary Éditions, 2018) and La Planète des sages (Dargaud, 2011 et 2015).

Fidji Simo is a French-American businesswoman and the CEO of applications at OpenAI. Prior to OpenAI, she spent a decade at Facebook where she was one of the top executives as the head of Facebook, and was CEO of Instacart from 2021 to 2025. She co-founded the Metrodora Institute, a health clinic and research institute, and is president of the...

Jean-Paul Agon is a French businessman who is the chairman and former CEO of the international cosmetic company L'Oréal. Because of the age limit of 65 set by the company, he was replaced in his role of CEO by Nicolas Hieronimus on 1 May 2021, while remaining chairman of the board. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1978.

Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet is a French politician and corporate director who served as Minister of Labour in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Michel Barnier and François Bayrou from 2024 to 2025. She served as a member of the National Assembly for Paris's 4th constituency from 2022 to 2024.

Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007.

Lucien Lelong was a French couturier who was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s. His couture fashion house was one of the largest in Paris in the interwar period, and Lelong was an important figure in the management of the French fashion industry during World War II.

Marc Ferracci is a French politician who served as Minister for Industry and Energy in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou from 2024 to 2025 and is currently a Member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency for French residents overseas (Switzerland and Liechtenstein). A member of Renaissance (RE), he previously briefly served as Minister Delegate for Industry...

Clarisse Crémer is a French professional sailor. She is an offshore sailor having competed extensively in the Figaro class before progressing to the IMOCA 60.

Henri Proglio is a French businessman, the former chairman of the board and CEO of Electricité de France and former CEO of Veolia Environnement.

Jean-Dominique Senard is a French industrialist in the automobile industry. On 11 May 2012, he succeeded Michel Rollier as chief executive officer of the Michelin tire company after joining the company as chief financial officer in 2005. Senard is the first Michelin CEO not related to the Michelin family. On 24 January 2019, Renault's Board of Directors elected Senard as...

Emmanuel Chain, born August 5, 1962, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French producer, journalist and former television host.

Philippe Kieffer MBE MC, capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces.

Benjamin Haddad is a French politician who has served as Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu since 2024. A member of Renaissance (RE), he previously served in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024, representing Paris's 14th constituency, which encompasses most of its 16th arrondissement.

Milojko Spajić is a Montenegrin politician and financial engineer serving as Prime Minister of Montenegro since October 2023. He also served as the minister of finance and social welfare in the government of Montenegro and the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić from 2020 to 2022.

Maxime Saada is a French corporate executive. He is a Chairman and CEO of Canal+ Group, Chairman of Studiocanal, Dailymotion, and L’Olympia, and Vice-President of Lagardère Group.

Othman Nasrou is a Moroccan-born French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. From September to December 2024, he briefly served as the Secretary of State for Citizenship and the Fight Against Discrimination in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

Pierre Rosanvallon is a French left historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.

Cédric O is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State (junior minister) for the Digital Economy in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022.

Bernard Fresson was a French actor who primarily worked in film.

Alain Weill is a French business executive. He is the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of NextRadioTV (which includes BFM TV and Radio Monte Carlo) and Chairman and CEO of SFR Group.

Emmanuel Faber is a French businessman. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Danone, and the Chairman of the Board of directors. He was subsequently appointed Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board.

Juan José Sartori Piñeyro is a Uruguayan businessman, executive and politician. He is the co-owner of Sunderland A.F.C and president and founder of Union Group, a privately owned investment management and private equity firm that holds significant interests across an array of industries worldwide, including agriculture, technology, energy and real estate.

Éric Roger Pierre Lombard is a French businessman and politician who served as Minister of Economics and Finance in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou from 2024 to 2025. From 2017 to 2024, he served as CEO of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations.

Joseph Oughourlian, is a French financial businessman of Lebanese origin. Founder of the activist fund Amber Capital, he invests in football teams.

Amélie Chloé de Montchalin is a French politician who was appointed Minister for Public Accounts in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou in 2024 and retained the office under Sébastien Lecornu in 2025 as Minister of Public Action and Accounts.

Serge Dassault was a French engineer, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Dassault Group, and a conservative politician. According to Forbes, Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at US$15 billion.

Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician and lawyer who served as the inaugural president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. In government, he was Minister Delegate for the City and Urban Renewal from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing from 2004 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac, and...

Jean-Noël Barrot is a French-Swiss politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu since 21 September 2024. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Digital Transition and Telecommunications in the government of Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to...

Jean-François Stévenin was a French actor and filmmaker. He appeared in 150 films and television shows since 1968. He starred in the film Cold Moon, which was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

Albert Otto Hirschman was an American economist. He was the author of several influential books on development economics, political economy, and political ideology including The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), The Passions and the Interests (1977), and The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991). He was a founding figure in the School of Social Science at the...

Clarisse Bogdanna Agbegnenou is a French judoka. Competing in the −63 kg weight division she won the European title in 2013, the world title in 2014, an Olympic silver medal at the Rio 2016 Games, an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and the bronze medal at the 2024 Games in Paris, in her home country.

Stanislas Daniel Guerini is a French politician who served as Minister of Public Transformation and Service in the governments of Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2022 to 2024.

François-Henri Pinault is a French businessman and the son of billionaire François Pinault. François-Henri took the reins of his father's retail conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute in 2005, and turned it into the luxury group Kering (Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta) in 2013. He has been president of the family-owned investment holding Groupe Artémis (Château Latour, Christie's, Pinault Collection, Creative Artists...

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals. Strauss-Kahn was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense...

Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in February 1913. He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and dictator Porfirio Díaz. After Díaz claimed to have...

Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. He joined the French army and became one of the earliest fighter pilots during World War I. Garros was shot down and...

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Prince of Montfort, is a French businessman and the disputed head of the Imperial House of France, and as such the heir of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of the French. He would be known as Napoleon VIII.

Benjamin-Blaise Griveaux is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Government Spokesman from 2017 to 2019 under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. From 2017 until 2021, he also served as a member of the National Assembly, representing the 5th constituency of Paris, which encompasses the 3rd and 10th arrondissements.

Pierre Danon is a French entrepreneur. He currently serves on the board of directors of several companies in Europe. He is chairman of SoLocal Group in Paris and the executive chairman of Volia in Kyiv.

Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique....

Éric Woerth is a French politician of Renaissance who served in several positions in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon, including as Secretary of State for State Reform (2004–2005), as Minister for budget and public accounts (2007–2010) and briefly as Minister for Labor. In October 2025, he briefly served as Minister for territorial development, decentralization and housing in Prime...

Claire Chazal is a French journalist, romance writer, and former director of news at a national television station, France 2.

Andreas Marcus Kaplan is president of Kühne Logistics University. He is specialized in the areas of social media, viral marketing, and the digital world in general.

Sir Pascal Claude Roland Soriot is a French-born Australian businessman and chief executive of the British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca.

Bertrand Badré was born on 10 May 1968. He is the son of Denis Badré, Senator of Hauts-de-Seine until 2011 and mayor of Ville d'Avray. Bertrand Badré is the CEO and founder of BlueOrange Capital, an investment fund that focuses on investments aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals with market level financial returns. Previously, Badré served as managing director and...

Louis René Fernand Gallois is a French former senior civil servant and businessman. He was the CEO of EADS, the European aeronautic defense and space company, from 2007 to 2012.

Pascal Lamy is a French political consultant and businessman. He was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2013 for 8 years. In April 2009, WTO members reappointed Lamy for a second 4-year term, beginning on 1 September 2009. He was then succeeded by Roberto Azevêdo. Pascal Lamy was also European Commissioner...

Stéphane Richard is a French businessman who was the chief executive officer and chairman of the worldwide mobile phone network Orange from 2011 to 2021. In December 2021, he resigned after being sentenced for complicity in fraud and misuse of public funds.

Emmanuelle Wargon is a French civil servant, politician and former lobbyist who has been serving as president of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) since 2022.

Jacques Guy Cheminade is a French politician, activist and former diplomat. He is the head of the Solidarity and Progress (SP) party, the French arm of the LaRouche movement. He has thrice run for President of France (1995, 2012, 2017), always placing last.

Henri de La Croix de Castries is a French businessman. He was chairman and CEO of AXA from 2000 to 2016. He has been chairman of the Bilderberg Group steering committee since 2012.

Agnès Pannier-Runacher is a French business executive and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as the Minister of Ecological Transition in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu from 2024 to 2025.

Florian Philippot is a French politician. He served as Vice President of the National Front from 2012 to 2017 before quitting the party to found The Patriots in September 2017, which has failed to win any representation in subsequent elections.

François Asselineau is a French politician and an Inspector General for finances.

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a French politician who served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, as well as President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012....

Valérie Anne Émilie Pécresse is a French politician who has been the President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans, she previously served as Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and Minister of the Budget and Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012 under Prime Minister François Fillon. Pécresse represented the...

Rachida Dati is a French politician, lawyer and magistrate who has served as Minister of Culture since January 2024 in the government of Gabriel Attal, government of Michel Barnier, government of François Bayrou and the first and second governments of Sébastien Lecornu. She previously was Minister of Justice from 2007 to 2009 under Prime Minister François Fillon.

Dominique Faure is a French politician of Renaissance (RE). She served as Secretary of State for Rural Affairs from July to November 2022 in the Borne government, and as Minister Delegate for Territorial Collectivities and Rural Affairs from November 2022 to September 2024 in the Borne and Attal governments. She represented Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency in the National Assembly from June...

Axel Joseph Jean-Jacques Toupane is a French professional basketball player for FC Porto of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB). Toupane also represents the senior French national team in international events. At 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall and 101 kg (223 lb), he plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions.