Faculty: SKEMA Business School welcomes nine new professors and pursues an ambitious recruitment plan

Johann BARCHECHATH
Program Director of the MSc in Financial Markets & Investments, Grand Paris Campus.

Johann Barchechath is Program Director of the MSc Financial Markets & Investments at SKEMA Paris. He is a seasoned finance professional and professional lecturer with over 25 years of experience across capital markets, private banking, and asset management. He has held senior leadership and expert roles in major European financial institutions—including CA-CIB, BNP Paribas Fortis, Leonteq, Candriam and Engie. Throughout his career, Johann has led multicultural teams and driven strategic projects across Europe, Asia, and the Americas with a focus on risk management, financial innovation, client satisfaction, as well as digital transformation and business process optimisation.

Johann holds an Executive MBA from London Business School, and master’s degrees in finance, Econometrics and Statistics from Toulouse School of Economics. As a professional lecturer, Johann has been teaching finance since 2001 in leading universities and business schools—including SKEMA Business School (Sophia Antipolis, Paris, Raleigh), Toulouse School of Economics, and Université Paris Dauphine. His teaching covers corporate and market finance, derivatives valuation, structured products, and risk management.

Matilde GUILHON
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Program Director of the MSc in Strategic Management Consulting
Research Centre: Knowledge, Technology and Organization, Grand Paris Campus

Matilde Guilhon is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at SKEMA Business School (Grand Paris campus), where she serves as Program Director of the MSc in Strategic Management Consulting (MSc SMC). Before joining SKEMA Business School, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna and Research Fellow at Bologna Business School (Italy). She received her PhD in Strategic Management from ESCP Business School (France) and was a visiting PhD student at MIT Sloan School of Management (USA). 

Her research examines the socio-cognitive implications of technological and market changes, with a particular focus on how incumbent firms respond strategically to the emergence of new categories and shifting competitive landscapes. In parallel, she explores issues of individual and organisational resilience, investigating how actors adapt and sustain performance under conditions of turbulence. At SKEMA, she teaches strategy-related courses in graduate and postgraduate programmes.

Alexandre LANDI
Programme Director of the MSc in Financial Markets & Investments, Sophia-Antipolis campus

Alexandre Landi is Program Director of the MSc Financial Markets & Investments in Sophia Antipolis. With a background that bridges finance, data science, and artificial intelligence, Alexandre has developed extensive expertise in asset pricing, derivatives, fixed income, econometrics, portfolio construction, and Python programming.

Before joining SKEMA Business School, Alexandre served as Lead Data Scientist at IBM France, where he led data-driven projects for financial services clients. Previously, he worked as a Quantitative Researcher at Balanced Research and Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, as well as at EONOS Investment Technologies and Kearney.

Alexandre holds a Master of Science in Financial Markets & Investments from SKEMA Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, having also completed courses in Machine Learning for Trading and Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech.

Yu LI
Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business
Research Centre: Knowledge, Technology and Organization, Grand Paris Campus. 

Yu Li is Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at SKEMA Business School in Grand Paris, France. She earned her PhD from University of South Carolina in the United States. Yu’s research lies at the intersection of nonmarket strategy, sustainability, and international business, involving her consistent interest in better understanding how multinational enterprises (MNEs) navigate nonmarket dynamics on a global scale. Yu’s research has been recognised with several awards and honours, such as nominations and awards at the AIB, AOM, IACMR, SMS conferences.
At SKEMA, Yu teaches courses across the BBA and PGE programmes in Paris and Lille. As an educator, she aims to cultivate business leaders who possess deep insights into societal realities and are committed to addressing the grand challenges facing our world.

Margalit SAMUEL
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Research Centre: Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation, Grand Paris Campus.

Margalit Samuel is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at SKEMA Business School, Grand Paris Campus. She earned her PhD in Accounting from Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management under the supervision of Prof. Shai Levi and Dr. Tsahi Versano.

Her research focuses on how information flows in capital markets influence firms’ disclosure strategies, competition, and investment decisions. She is also exploring the use of AI in accounting research, with ongoing collaborations with Prof. Baruch Lev and Prof. Feng Gu.
Margalit has taught financial accounting, statistics, and economics at Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University. She also has practical audit experience, having worked as a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young in Tel Aviv.

Valeria STOURM
Associate Professor of Digital Marketing
Research Centre: Marketing Interactions, Grand Paris Campus

Valeria Stourm is an Associate Professor of Digital Marketing at SKEMA Business School. Prior to joining SKEMA Business School, Valeria was a faculty member at HEC Paris. Valeria holds a PhD, MS and BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM), which she has studied in the contexts of sharing economy platforms, loyalty programmes, and digital advertising. She has also studied the unintended consequences of customer analytics on societal inequality, environmental impact, and consumer privacy.

Her research was published in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Marketing Letters, etc. Her research has earned grants, and gained recognition through awards including the Don Lehmann Award for “the best dissertation-based paper published in the past two years in Journal of Marketing or Journal of Marketing Research”. Valeria teaches in digital marketing, marketing management, etc. and she was recipient of the Prix Bruno Roux de Bézieux pour l’Initiative Pédagogique in 2022 at HEC.

Kerrigan UNTER
Assistant Professor
Research Centre: SKEMA Centre for Sustainability Studies, Grand Paris Campus.

Kerrigan Unter is an Assistant Professor at SKEMA Business School. Her research broadly focuses on the interconnectedness between business and the biophysical environment. More specifically, she examines the relationship between the biophysical, such as climate change, extreme weather, and biodiversity, and business performance and response strategies. She received a PhD in Business Administration with a focus on Strategic Management and Public Policy from George Washington University’s School of Business. 

She completed a postdoc at the Institute for Economy and the Environment at the University of St. Gallen. Her research has obtained several grants, and was published in journals like Strategic Organization, Organization & Environment, etc. Kerrigan has been teaching in strategic management, researching the regenerative economy, and biodiversity-related topics.

Anand VAN ZELDEREN
Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Business
Research Centre: SKEMA Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Grand Paris Campus.

Anand van Zelderen is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Business at SKEMA Business School. He received a PhD in Business Economics from KU Leuven, and completed a postdoc at the University of Zurich’s Center for Leadership in the Future of Work. His research examines the socio-emotional costs that surface when employees interact with autonomous AI agents. A pioneer in experimental management research, he is among the first to develop synthetic field studies, an approach that integrates AI and Virtual Reality to create lifelike organisational simulations that capture real behaviours while preserving experimental control. 

To democratise access to these tools, he founded the Openverse Open Science Initiative, an interdisciplinary collaboration of more than 70 scholars around the world. Through his research and education, Anand aims to shape a human-centric future of work where emerging technologies are integrated ethically, inclusively, and sustainably into organisations and society.

Han WU
Associate Professor of Accounting
Research Centre: Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation, Grand Paris Campus.

Han Wu is an Associate Professor in Accounting at SKEMA Business School. Prior to joining SKEMA, he was an Assistant Professor in Accounting at HEC Paris. He got his PhD in Accounting at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). His research focuses on how political factors and regulations affect different stakeholders in the capital market. 

His research was published in top-tier academic journals such as Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Ethics. He teaches financial accounting and reporting, consolidation, and financial statement analysis in MBA and master programmes.