Dr. Kletz received his doctorate from HEC School of Management-Paris. He holds accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation diriger des recherches) from the Sorbonne. He has held the position of Academic Director of the Eastern and Central Europe Centre of HEC and, later on, was the Special Academic Advisor of the Director General of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Before joining Mandel Foundation, he was an Associate Professor at the University Francois Rabelais (France) where he served as founding director of the Masters of Public Management program.  Pierre has published numerous articles about organizational theory in major research journals. He has received the Award for Excellence in 2002 for an "outstanding contribution" to the Journal of Management Development.