Albert Meige

Albert Meige has been an entrepreneur since his teenage years, when he began by selling magic! He now is the founder and CEO of Presans, a worldwide digital platform of experts. He also is the Director of the HEC executive program “Leading the Digital Transformation.” He is an expert for the Harvard Business Review of France. Trained as a Telecom Engineer, he also holds an MBA from HEC Paris business school and a Physics PhD from the Australian National University. In 2008, the French École Polytechnique awarded him its Innovation Prize. In 2016-2017, he was the director of the Executive MBA at the Institut Mines-Télécom. He authored several books on innovation, over a dozen peer-reviewed academic publications, as well as two patents. He can solve the Rubik's Cube in less than fifty seconds and loves urban underground exploration…

Education

• MBA, Major Innovation & Entrepreneurship HEC School of Management (2011 — 2012)
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD The Australian National University (2003 — 2006)
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (2003 — 2006)
• Lycee Carnot

Companies

• Associate Director Arthur D. Little (2020)
• Lecturer HEC Paris Executive Education (2017)
• Advisory Board Member ThrustMe (2017)
• Expert Harvard Business Review France (2015)
• Writer, Conference Speaker and TED Speaker Presans (2010)
• Founder and CEO Presans (2008)
• Academic Director HEC Paris (2018 — 2020)
• Advisor Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (France) (2018 — 2019)
• Executive MBA Program Director - Leading Transformation in a Digital World Institut Mines-Télécom (2016 — 2018)