Jean-Philippe Bonardi is a Professor of Strategic Management and currently the Dean of HEC Lausanne, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne. He earned his PhD and a Master from HEC School of Management (Paris, France), as well as a Master in Economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence, and was previously an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He also held visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, Tulane University (USA) and the University of New South Wales (Australia).

His research focuses on strategy formulation, with a focus on the relationships between firms’ strategies and public policies, including macroeconomic policies and regulations of all kinds and in a global context. He studies not only how firms are impacted by these policies, but also how firms devise strategies to participate in the development of these policies and how they manage the relationships with external stakeholders (media, NGOs, activists, consumer groups, etc.) in order to do so. His research has been published in major international research outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, or the Strategic Management Journal.

He also served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review between 2008 and 2011.

Professor Bonardi has also acted as a consultant to various companies and organizations in Europe and North America, and has taught and designed Executive education programs for companies and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), the RBC Royal Bank, Threadneedle, La Poste, SSL International, UPM, Veolia, DSM and Air France among others.