Christophe SCHMITT

Christophe Schmitt, Professor of the Entrepreneurship Chair at the Institute of Business Administration (IAE) Metz - School of Management and member of the European Research Centre for Financial Economics and Business Management (CEREFIGE) at the University of Lorraine (France), is behind an entrepreneurial support scheme for students. He is an associate professor at various universities and an international expert in entrepreneurship organisations. He is also the author of several books, including L'agir entrepreneurial (The entrepreneurial action) (Presses of University of Québec, 2015), which won an award in France.

• Since 2017: Vice-President in charge of Entrepreneurship and Incubation at the University of Lorraine
• Since 2014: University Professor of Management Sciences
• 2000- 2014: Lecturer in Management Sciences

• Head of the Entrepreneurship and Project Management programme.
• Educational manager of: 

Entrepreneurship Chair

Created in 2011, the aim of the Entrepreneurship Chair is to understand how entrepreneurship is made in order to promote teaching and support by professionals in the field and to inform policy-making. Since its creation, the Entrepreneurship Chair has enabled the implementation and development of the PeeL (http://peel.univ-lorraine.fr/). More recently, the Entrepreneurship Chair is at the origin of the think tank R2E (Expertise & Entrepreneurship Network) which brings together some fifty researchers and ten research laboratories (economics, management, educational sciences, computer science, engineering, etc.) in the Grand Est region.