Alain Nonjon

About Alain Nonjon

Educator, teacher in Preparatory Classes for Higher Commercial Education, former professor preparing students for the ENA at the IEP of Paris, author specializing in geopolitics, Alain Nonjon, 62 years old, conducts conferences for Business Schools and corporate seminars on themes at the heart of major contemporary global issues.

· Graduate of ENS (Saint Cloud) and accredited by the University, he has taught at the IEP of Paris, is currently in a position in the HEC preparatory class at Lycée Michelet (Vanves), and was the founding director of Intégrale, a leading institute in training for commercial competitions.

· At Editions Ellipses, he directs collections on contemporary world geopolitics, the collection “transversales” targeting major societal issues, and the “mise en examen” collection focusing on competition methodology. Among his recent publications: a geopolitics atlas “Cartes en mains” (2nd edition 2013), the direction of collective works on “Africa of Conquests” and on “the Currency War” or “the Global Space: Fractures or Interdependencies?”

· He is responsible for the Grenoble School of Management’s section on geopolitical intelligence (agendas and interactive geopolitical maps published on Diploweb, notably, and the magazine Espace prépas). He has collaborated on geopolitical programs for the Planète channel (June 2013. The American-Mexican border: place of exclusion? place of construction?)

· He is also very involved in the Euris foundation around J C Naouri, as an administrator, he is committed to helping young people from ZEP (priority education zones) who combine excellence (high honors at the baccalaureate) and strong motivation to connect their lives to dreams.

· A member of the HEC geopolitical jury, he regularly conducts conferences for Business Schools (Isagora, Audencia Nantes, ISG meetings, EM Bordeaux crossroads, etc.) and seminars (la Baume) on various themes (“China in search of the world… and of itself” or “Is there still an American exception?” or even “The Franco-German couple: a marriage of convenience or a divorce by mutual consent?”).

· The generations of decision-makers he has trained in his discipline are his most fervent advocates, from Loic Lemeur (Seesmic) to Isabelle Guichot (Balenciaga), from Pascal Lebar (Sequana) to Gabriel Naouri (Casino Rallye).

· All his conferences are built on 4 requirements: Define, decipher, demonstrate, debate.