Jean-Paul Larçon holds an M.Sc. degree from HEC and a Ph.D. in Management from Paris Dauphine University. He also studied Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

He was named an Esade Alumni of Honor in 2006. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite. He is currently Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HEC Paris.
Jean-Paul Larçon was the Dean of HEC Paris from 1982 to 1989 and founder of the Community of European Management School – today’s CEMS Global Alliance.

From 1989 to 2009, he launched different initiatives in management education in Central Europe (the Baltic States and Poland), Middle East, North Africa, Federation of Russia, Central Asia (Kazakhstan), and China. He was a visiting professor at CEIBS (China), Esade (Spain), the GSOM of St Petersburg State University (Russia), NHH Bergen (Norway), Tsinghua SEM (China), and WUT Business School (Poland).

Jean-Paul Larçon is a board member of Baltic Management Institute and Chairman of the Council of Warsaw University of Technology Business School, Senior Associate Dean for International Development, HEC Paris.

He was awarded the Regalia of Doctor Honoris by Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania).

His current research and teaching interests concentrate on international strategy and emerging markets multinationals. _www.hec.edu