Arthur Gautier
Arthur Gautier is Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School and Chair Holder of the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair. He was appointed as Associate Dean for Chairs in September 2024. He teaches for the Master in Management and at ESSEC Executive Education. From 2016 to 2021, he was Academic Director of the French Fundraising Certificate. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris and is an alumni from ESSCA School of Management. His research focuses on philanthropy and more broadly on private initiatives for the common good, from organizational, sociological, psychological and historical perspectives. He studies the emergence and the institutionalization of individual and corporate philanthropy, both as concepts and practices. He is also interested in hybrid philanthropic practices.
