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Dean’s Q&A: Peter Todd, HEC Paris

Published: 18 May 2016

When Peter Todd joined the administration of HEC Paris last July, he made history as the first non-French dean of the top-ranked school. This past January, he helped the business school make history again when, as a result of a new French law, it became the first school in France to take on the new status of a consular higher education institution (or EESC) in the country, giving the school its first true whiff of independence in its more than 130-year history.

As a result of this change, the school will no longer be a department of the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce, as it has been since its inception in 1881, but rather an affiliate entity with the freedom to seek funding from benefactors and publish its own accounts. It’s a paradigm shift in many ways that will take the school in new and exciting directions, says Todd, who came to HEC after a nine-year stint as dean of Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Read full article: Poets & Quants, May 17, 2016 

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