Concetta Lanciaux, PhD, Executive MBA and former Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University (USA), is Senior Advisor to the Chairman Groupe Arnault.

She joined Bernard Arnault, Chairman of Groupe Arnault and LVMH in 1985 and has since played a key role in the organizational development of the Group introducing innovative practices, injecting highly creative designers and strongly contributing to the modernization of the luxury industry. She will in the future develop a strategic consulting activity devoted to developing creative and management talent, and revitalizing brands.

She is member of several juries attributing prizes to fashion designers (Festival d'Hyères.) and management books (Prix Manpower, Prix de l'Expansion). She is member of several boards (Fendi, Reale Mutua, Insead Euro Asia Center, French Institute of Fashion, Business School Bocconi, .) She is honorary fellow of the London Business School.

She is a well-known conference speaker worldwide on the subjects of Luxury branding, alignment of organizational development to Luxury Branding, innovation, strategic human resources management etc. She is the author of several books and articles.

She has been nominated by ELLE 2006 in the Top 50 Most Influential Business Women in France. She was attributed the Marisa Bellisario Foundation Award as successful businesswoman of a quoted company in 2002, and she was voted one of the 30 most influential businesswomen in Europe by the Wall Street Journal Europe in 2001.