Antoine SOUCHAUD is Full Professor at NEOMA Business School and Ecole Polytechnique. He is the Head of the Accounting, Controlling and Legal Affairs academic department since April 2022. Antoine’s research interests include crowdfunding, FinTech regulations, and start-up coaching.

Antoine has been awarded the Roland Calori best young sholar prize in strategic management, the best paper prize from the International Association of Strategic Management (AIMS), and the best PhD thesis in management prize from the Universities of Paris Chancellery. He has also contributed to a Financial Times prize-winning economics textbook.

He is Jury co-director for the France-Amériques PhD thesis prize and evaluator of the French CPA diploma.

Antoine has published in Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Technovation, Finance, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, Gérer et Comprendre, Expert Systems With Applications, Journal of Business Models, Politique et Management Public, and Réalités Industrielles. He has also published press articles in Le Monde, Les Echos, and La Tribune.

Antoine is Emeritus Chairman of the Conférence Olivaint, having chaired its Youth Branch (2007-2008, Bureau René Char) and then its Seniors Branch (2019-2025). Antoine is or has been visiting professor at College of Europe, HEC Paris, Sciences-Po Paris, and La Sorbonne.  He is partner to Fiteco's "CPA ambition" program. He is also member of the Board of France-Amériques.

Antoine holds an HDR (Authorization to supervise research) from Ecole Polytechnique. He holds a PhD in Management Sciences from ESCP Business School and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He also holds the french CPA charter. He is normalien in economics and management, and alumnus of HEC Paris, Sciences-Po Paris, and College of Europe (Bruges). He has also completed training programs from INSEAD, Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.