Dominique Turpin

Background

Turpin, Dominique was born on January 12, 1957 in Tours, France.

Education

He studied at ESSCA from 1976 to 1980 and as part of his curriculum he spent an academic year at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid to study political marketing.

Career

Subsequently, he earned his doctorate in economics from Sophia University in Tokyo (1986). Professor Turpin has been honoured famous alumnus of Sofia university and is an alumnus of the Institute for Management Development "International Program for Board Members". Between 1986 and 1991 Dominique Turpin was successively appointed Post-Doctorate Fellow and Assistant Professor at International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland and Visiting Professor at Keio Business School in Japan.

He became a full marketing professor at the International Institute for Management Development (Institute for Management Development) in 1991, and was appointed President of Institute for Management Development in July 2010.

He succeeded John R. Wells. Dominique Turpin’s areas of interest include brand management, marketing strategy and communications.

As President of Institute for Management Development, Dominique Turpin aims to provide executive education and perspectives for global leaders. Professor Turpin has directed some of Institute for Management Development’s program offerings, including its top-ranked Master of Business Administration (Master of Business Administration) and its PED (Program for Executive Development).

He is the co-Program Director of the Institute for Management Development’s Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP).

He has pioneered programs in Singapore and Brazil, as well as in China and Japan. He has directed customized programs for companies such as Groupe SEB, Panasonic and Japan Tobacco International. He has worked as a consultant and management educator with a large number of international companies including: Coca Cola, CPW, Danone, DSM, Jardine Matheson, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Philips and Uponor.

Dominique Turpin has been a regular contributor to the Nihon Sangyo Shimbun (The Japan Industrial Journal), one of the leading business dailies in Japan.

He is an editorial advisor of the Singapore Management Review and the Continental European editor for the Long Range Planning Journal as well as The International Journal of Strategic Management. Since 1994, he serves as the Institute for Management Development representative on the Academic Council of the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai (People"s Republic of China).

In 2001 and 2002, Professor Turpin was awarded Best European Case Writing (EFMD). Since 2002, he has held the Institute for Management Development Dentsu professorship in Japanese management.

His current research focuses on brand management, and he has been widely published in more than 100 books, articles and case studies including the Financial Times, European Business Forum and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Management Review.

Dominique Turpin is married and has three children. He speaks English, French, Japanese and Spanish.

Achievements

• Dominique Turpin has been listed as a noteworthy finance educator, president by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Between 1997 and 1999, Professor Turpin served as a Board Member of ITOCHU, a leading Japanese trading company, and was elected member of the International Academy of Management in 2000.