Anand Narasimhan is IMD’s Dean of Faculty and Research and the Shell Professor of Global Leadership. As Dean, Anand is a member of the Executive Committee, sharing the management responsibility of the Faculty with the President.  

In his capacity as Shell Professor of Global Leadership at IMD, Anand works with organizations to help transform leadership capabilities through experiential, observational and reflective learning that emphasizes self-awareness, collaboration, and culture-building.

Anand is a pioneer in the application of psychodynamic insights that help leaders understand how unconscious forces shape the dynamics of top teams and boards of directors. He combines insights from research on group dynamics, psychoanalysis, and governance to reveal the patterns and consequences of leadership behavior.  His research on institutional change, organization design, social networks and emotional help in organizations has appeared in prestigious publications such as Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Sociology, Organization Science, Organizational Dynamics, and Personnel Psychology. 

He has served on the faculty of the London Business School and the Imperial College Business School, and has had visiting appointments at the Indian School of Business and Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. 

Anand holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, an MBA specializing in Human Resource Management from XLRI, and a PhD in Management from Vanderbilt University. 

Peggy Le Roux joined IMD in November 2019 as IMD’s Chief Finance and Administrative Officer. She leads the Financial and Internal Controlling, Accounting, Tax, Treasury and Campus Services. Peggy is also the secretary of the Audit Committee (AFRC).

Peggy came to IMD after spending 15 years in the Richemont Group, including 10 years at Jaeger-LeCoultre where she took on the role of Chief Finance Officer and became a member of the Maison Executive Committee in 2011. Prior to the Richemont Group, Peggy worked with Ernst & Young for seven years, in Paris and in London.

Peggy is a graduate of the ESCP Europe Business School as well as an IMD Alumna having attended IMD’s Leading Digital Business Transformation program and a customized program with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Executive Committee.  

Laurent Tranchida, Chief Human Resources Officer, oversees the recruitment and retention of IMD’s most important asset: its people. He joined the institution in 2018 after a long career in corporate human resources. He has been a member of the top management team at IMD since January 2020, when the IMD Executive Committee was established.  

Laurent came to IMD after more than a decade at Sidel, a world leader in FMCG packaging, where he held a variety of human resources leadership roles, taking him to Paris, Le Havre and Zurich. Before Sidel, he spent 15 years at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG in Paris where he held a number of functions spanning HR, Training and Internal Communications, Technical Publishing and Client Services.

Laurent holds two Master’s degrees: one in Management and Human Resources Development from l’école des Ressources Humaines, IGS-RH in Lyon and another in Executive Coaching from Cergy-Pontoise University. He is also an IMD alumnus, having completed the High-Performance Leadership and Orchestrating Winning Performance programs.  

Ana Gil-Robles joined IMD in 2020 as General Counsel. She is also a member of the Audit Committee (AFRC). Before joining IMD’s Executive Committee, Ana spent close to ten years serving as General Counsel for SICPA, the world’s leader in marking and security solutions. Prior to her time at SICPA, Ana spent more than five years with the America’s Cup, on the Alinghi team where she was Senior Legal Counsel and then Legal Director.

Ana is a trained lawyer in French and Spanish laws, having started her career as an attorney in the largest Spanish law firm in Madrid. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia University, and is a member of the Madrid bar association.

David Bach joined IMD in 2020 and as of 2021, assumed the role of Dean of Innovation and Programs. As part of the Executive Committee, David leads efforts to enhance IMD’s global reach and impact through both programmatic and pedagogical innovation.

Prior to joining IMD, David was Professor of Practice of Management and Deputy Dean for Executive Programs at the Yale School of Management (SOM), playing a critical role on Yale SOM’s leadership team over eight years. Before joining Yale SOM, David held a number of senior positions at IE Business School in Madrid.

David’s teaching and research focuses on business-government relations, non-market strategy and stakeholder management. His course “The End of Globalization?” received the 2018 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute. He is one of the architects of the Global Network for Advanced Management, an alliance of 31 top global business schools of which IMD has been a member since 2012.

David completed his undergraduate studies at Yale in political science and international studies and earned a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

As IMD’s Chief of Staff, Yassine Ayadi is responsible for improving the individual and collective effectiveness of the Executive Committee, maintaining alignment between departments and work functions through the provision of operational guidance and support. Yassine joined IMD in 2020 as a member of the Executive Committee.

Prior to joining IMD, Yassine spent four years in Associate and Senior Associate roles at PwC’s strategic consultancy arm Strategy& and was instrumental in launching their Casablanca office. He joined Strategy& after two years in PwC’s selective rotational program “Parcours Croisé”.