Frédérique Alexandre-Bailly is coming back to ESCP after 9 years serving the French State, first as rector for the Burgundy region (2016-2019) and then as CEO of the French national office for career guidance (Onisep) (2019-2025).
She graduated in 1991 from HEC Paris (major in international management) and holds a CEMS Master in European Management (ESADE, Barcelona, Spain) as well as a Master in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. She worked as a business consultant at Stratorg (Paris) and completed her Research Master in history of philosophy at Nanterre University in 1995, then her Doctorate in Management at HEC in 2001. Her discussion was on managing autonomy at work. She joined the faculty of ESCP Europe in 1998. She teaches human resources management and organizational behaviour. From 2000 to June 2008, she was Dean of the apprenticeship program of the school. From 2006 to 2016, she was responsible for the diversity program of the school, launching the Talent Spring program. From 2008 to 2014, she was the dean of faculty of the school, and from 2014 to 2016, a vice administrator in charge of teaching affairs and partnerships of the excellence initiative program of heSam University (Hautes Etudes Sorbonne Université), the higher education cluster which ESCP had joined.
She is a member of the board of the French Academy of Management (SFM), that she chaired from 2020 to 2024. She is knight of the French Légion d'Honneur, officer of the french merit order, knight of the agricultural merit order and commander of the academic palms order.<span style="\" -="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb\"="" "="" lang="\" en-gb\"="">