Eric Godelier
Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique, France (2023-2026)
Eric Godelier is a Professor of Business History and management at Ecole Polytechnique (French Best School of Engineers). Between 2002 and 2017, he was the Dean of the Humanities and Social Science Department. He was in charge of developing and coordinating management and business history courses. He has been educated at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, in economics and management studies. He has made a Phd in History at EHESS on the French steel corporation Usinor (1948-1986). Since 2018, He is the president of the French Association for Business History (AFHE, Association Française pour l’Histoire des Entreprises) and member of Entreprises et Histoire editorial committee. Since 2020, He is a member of the BHC board of Trustees. Since 2022, He is the Director of the BHC Doctoral Colloquium. In the Ecole Polytechnique research center on Social Sciences, he is studying the conception and diffusion processes of management tools and models in an historical and anthropological perspective. He was the president of the steering committee of the 2023 Paris international congress on French Business History in Paris. With 3 colleagues (P. Mioche, P. Raggi and I.Kharaba), He has edited a Dictionnary of the History of French Steel Industry published in 2022 by the Presses Universitaires de Provence. The book contains 280 entries written by nearly 120 French and Foreign authors.
