Anne-Claire Pache

Anne-Claire Pache is a professor of social innovation at ESSEC Business School in Paris and holds the Chair of Philanthropy. 

After studying at ESSEC Business School (1994), she obtained a Master's degree in Urban Planning and Management (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris) and then a Master's degree in Public Administration majoring in Non-Profit Management (2001) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. This was followed by a doctorate in Organisational Behaviour from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in 2010.

Deputy Director General, in charge of ESSEC's academic programmes between 2014 and 2017, Anne-Claire Pache is currently Director of Strategy and Societal Engagement at ESSEC.

Her research lies at the intersection of organisation theory and social innovation. Anne-Claire Pache is particularly interested in complex environments, hybrid organisations and the scaling processes of social enterprises. She has conducted qualitative studies in the field of social enterprises, corporate philanthropy and private foundations. She is the author of several books and articles, including the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, the California Management Review, and Leadership Quarterly, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Organization Design.

Before embarking on an academic career, Anne-Claire Pache was one of the co-founders of Unis-Cité, the pioneering association for youth civic service in France. She is still a member of the board of Unis-Cité today, as well as of Impact, an investment fund.