Gilles Arnaud is a Professor of Organizational Psychology/Behavior at ESCP, Paris campus.

His research work has appeared in books and various French and international academic journals. Gilles Arnaud serves on the editorial boards of Organization Studies, Management Decision, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Organisational and Social Dynamics, Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychanalysis, and several French publications. He co-edits the Nouvelle Revue de Psychosociologie (érès) and the Clinical Research & Social Change Series (L’Harmattan).

He is a member of the Laboratoire de Changement Social et Politique (University of Paris Diderot), HASTEC (History and Anthropology of Knowledge, Techniques, and Beliefs) laboratory of excellence, and a former board member of ISPSO and CIRFIP.

Gilles Arnaud is a founding member of the Psychoanalysis, Organizations, Work, and Society AIMS thematic research group.

Gilles Arnaud holds a Master’s in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, a PhD in Management Science in organisational (and organizational psychodynamics)psychodynamics, and a French accreditation to supervise doctoral research. His interests include applying psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian theory, to organisation studies, work psychology, and business. He also focuses on qualitative and clinical research methods and critical management studies.