Rania Labaki

A passionate advocate for family businesses, Rania developed a unique mix of academic and practical knowledge through extensive experience with leading international organizations dedicated to family businesses. Currently, she is the Director of the EDHEC Family Business Centre and Associate Professor at EDHEC Business School. Her recent research and teaching interests revolve around the role of family dynamics in financial and entrepreneurial decisions. She was Director of the Financial and Wealth Management Master at the University of Bordeaux and Director of the Family Business Global EMBA at EDHEC Business School. She also served as academic expert of FBN International for 7 years at the Next Generation Committee level, in charge of programs content development and facilitation for international conferences and strategic activities focused on education, research, networking, and entrepreneurial initiatives. She is an active member of several organizations, including IFERA (Board Member), FFI (Programme Committee member), as well as FBIF, FBN France, Women in Family Business. She serves as Editor of Entrepreneurship Research Journal. Her 16 year teaching/lecturing experience spreads across continents as visiting professor or invited lecturer in China, UAE, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, USA, Brazil in the same line than her academic advising experience with organizations such as FBN (France, Switzerland, Pacific Asia, Germany, North America, Colombia, India, Spain), Scone Project UK, NYCFEC USA and BFF Canada. Along with a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Bordeaux, Rania holds the Family Firm Institute Certificates in Family Business and Family Wealth Advising. Author of academic papers, book chapters and professionally-oriented articles on family business, Rania received several international awards.