Professor Isabelle HUAULT
President of the Executive Board of emlyon business school


emlyon graduate, and successively worked at Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Université Paris-Est-Créteil Val-de-Marne and Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 and Paris Dauphine-PSL.

She has held several management positions at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL over the past 15 years: first director of the doctoral school of management, then of the mixed research unit in management Dauphine Recherches, she is in turn appointed vice president in charge of a mission concerning the management of the teaching staff by Laurent Batsch in 2015. In December 2016, she is then elected as President of the university.

During her 4 years as the head of this educational institution well recognized in the field of organizational and decision sciences, (it is a member of Conference des Grandes Ecoles (CGE) as well as the Conference of University Presidents (CPU)), Isabelle Huault enabled Université Paris Dauphine-PSL to take a leading role next to ENS in bringing together the 11 component institutions of Paris Sciences et Lettres.

She also increased the international influence of the institution by initiating numerous partnerships and alliances and by developing campus’ abroad, but also by using creativity as a driver to implement new digital programs, and to support educational innovation and social responsibility.


Professor William Hua WANG

Associate Dean, emlyon business school
Dean, emlyon business school Asia
French Dean, Asia Europe Business School
Executive Board Member, China Goes Abroad®
Think Tank Member, 21st Century Business Herald  Steering Committee Member, Gerpisa

Post graduate degree in Applied Economics IREPD - University of Pierre Mendès France

Ph.D. in Applied Economics - IREPD Institute of Economic Research on Production and Development - University of Pierre Mendès France

Expertise: corporate strategy、business model innovation、innovation management、foreign direct investment (Chinese outward FDI, FDI in China), globalization strategy of Chinese companies, and the automotive industry in China、Management Economics etc.

Professor William Hua Wang has rich experience in teaching MBA and EMBA core courses, such as Globalization Strategy, Business model innovation and Foreign direct investment (Chinese outward FDI, FDI in China), in leading business schools, including Manchester Business School, KEDGE Business School, Baltic Management Institute, Belgian Business School LOUVAIN School of Management, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Antai School of Economics and Management. He has published more than 110 publications in journals, books, and conference proceedings and has delivered executives training to many famous multinational enterprises and Chinese companies including Bosch, SAP, Volvo, Intel.