Catherine Chastenet de Géry is an Associate Professor in the Management Department at ESCP Business School.
Her early research focused on the impact of skills management on employment. Subsequently, she developed both collective and individual research on clusters, particularly regarding the entrepreneurial performance of French clusters and the management of skills within such clusters.

She has also contributed to collective research in the distribution sector, notably with a study funded by the French Franchise Federation on franchisee independence and franchise performance.

More recently, she has been involved in research on Sociétés à mission in France and the ecological transition of the cosmetics sector. She has been a member of the French Commission des Comptes Commerciaux de la Nation since 2011.

Prior to joining ESCP, Catherine Chastenet de Géry was Dean of the Faculty at Novancia (a business school of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry), where she focused on enhancing pedagogical innovation. Since then, she has participated in the group work and publications of the Pedagogical Innovation group within the Chapter of the Management Schools of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and is now part of the expert group on Pedagogical Innovation in the CDEFM (Conférence des Directeurs des Ecoles Françaises de Management).

She was the elected coordinator of the Management Department of ESCP Business School from 2018 to 2022. She has been the Academic Director of the Executive Master Manager since 2018, and since September 2024, she has served as the Academic Co-Director of the Master of Science “Industry Transformation Management” offered by ESCP and CentraleSupélec.

She holds a Ph.D. in economics and has developed her research within the field of the economics of organizations and institutions.