Governance structure

NEOMA Business School is an Establishment of Higher Education for Commerce (EESC)

The founding shareholders are the Chambers of Commerce of Marne Ardennes and Rouen Métropole, the NEOMA Business School association and the NEOMA ALUMNI association.

Delphine MANCEAU is the Dean of NEOMA

Delphine Manceau was elected President of the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE) in 2025, and also sits on the Board of the international accreditation body, AACSB, and on several Advisory Boards of Schools in France, North America and Asia.

She is also a member of the Conseil d’administration de la Conférence des Directeurs des Écoles Françaises de Management or CDEFM (= Board of Directors of the Association of Directors of French Management Schools).

Before her current post, she was a Professor at ESCP Business School where she held various management responsibilities.

As a specialist in marketing and innovation, she was a member of the RISE (Research, Innovation and Science) Committee of Experts at the European Commission for Research, Innovation and Science. Together with Pascal Morand she produced a report for Christine Lagarde, at that time Minister of the Economy, on the capacity for innovation of French and European businesses. They then founded i7 - Institut pour l'innovation et la Compétitivité (= Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness), an academic Think Tank on innovation.

Delphine Manceau has written several books and articles, including the reference book Marketing Management (17th edition published in 2025, with Philip Kotler, Kevin Keller, Alexander Chernev, Aurélie Hémonnet and Virginie Pez, Pearson Education).

She is a graduate of ESCP, a Doctor in Management Science (HEC Paris), holds an HDR (= authorisation to oversee research), and has been Senior Fellow at Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).