Hugues Tourel

Partner

"Passionate about strategic challenges, I challenge the status quo to help public and private organizations combine vision and action, revealing their full potential. An explorer of ideas, rigorous in analysis and endowed with a sharp political sense, I excel at mobilizing teams and bringing out new perspectives, in order to design high-impact strategies."

Domaines d'intervention

Sectors

Government / Public administration
Manufacturing industry
Cultural and creative industries
International institutions
Trade federations

Consulting expertise

General Management Consulting
State reform, institutional relations
Economic development / Revitalization
Transactions / Integration strategy

Additional mandates

Member of COMEX
Managing Director, The Institute by Eurogroup Company

Training and Certifications

2018: KELLOGG - Northwestern University - Leading with Analytics Powered Strategy (Chicago, USA)
2001: MBA from Sorbonne Business School (Paris, France)
1995: Engineer from ESIEA (Paris, France)

Expert for

Member of the IFRAP Scientific Council
Part-time lecturer (corporate strategy), Grand Oral jury, Sciences Po Paris

In a nutshell

30+ years' experience in strategy and transformation consulting
+ More than 500 strategic projects carried out for private/public players and international institutions in France, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
Partner since 2022
Develops our strategy consulting activities for the private and public sectors.

Contributions and books by our expert

Our job is also to reflect, decipher and share. Here you'll find our analyses, our convictions and our short formats.

Public Sector

Food for thought: biomimetic sovereignty

Biomimicry, the use of living organisms and their remarkable properties as inspiration for innovation, has a long history. In recent years, scientific developments have reinforced the potential of this approach, in the fields of innovation, performance and sustainability. Mobilized by many private and now public organizations, biomimicry is proving to be a real strategic lever.

Public Sector

Kairn Strategy study - Defense and investment funds

The urgent need to rearm Europe and France implies a major financing requirement for defense contractors. At a time when the sovereignty of France and Europe needs to be revitalized, every link in the value chain has a role to play in ensuring the ramp-up required by the geopolitical situation. Since 2022, there has been an increasing number of announcements concerning the ramp-up of major prime contractors, but the strategic SMEs and ETIs that make up their supply chain are struggling to keep pace, notably due to a lack of resources to invest in their production capacities.

Public Sector

Food for thought: the unbearable certainty of growth?

The current period calls for particular attention to be paid to growth and its sustainability. Can it be sustainable? And if so, under what conditions? Several approaches coexist: necessary but sustainable growth (Le Biez, 2021), the risks of stagnation if growth is abandoned (Summers, 2014) and even degrowth (Parrique, 2024).