Aurélie Cnop

Email: a.cnop@lse.ac.uk Professional Experience Academic 2015-2018 Teaching assistant, The London school of economics (LSE), UK

- 2017 & 2018: Taught Human resources management and Employment Relations for the LSE summer school (undergraduate level)

- 2017 & 2018: Taught Negotiations skills (part of the master’s in management)

- 2015: Taught Organizational Behavior (part of the undergraduate management program)

The teaching assistant responsibilities includes the marking of any essay-based type of assessment and the delivery of personalized feedback reports to the students. It also includes the marking of the final exam.

2017-2018 Affiliate Professor, ESCP Europe, UK 2004-2006 Assistant Professor, IAG Business School, University of Louvain, Belgium

- Conducted PhD-level research within the strategy department. Co-author of 2 articles published and presented at international conferences outlining the main strategies used by companies to implement corporate responsibility and the inherent paradox of the corporate responsibility in a profit focused organization

- Taught Corporate Strategy (MBA level) and Political Economy (undergraduate level) for two consecutive years.

Corporate 2006-2012 Senior Finance and Transformation Manager, British American Tobacco Hamburg, Germany (European HQ) and London, UK (worldwide HQ)

- Responsible for the global planning, involving yearly review and communication of all department’s plans and strategies

- Responsible for coordinating the restructuring of the cross-departmental global budget process and for communicating it to the Board and senior users

- Led the “Hackett Deep Dive Project” across all functions and locations, which aimed at establishing a global benchmark that could support a detailed strategy for how to achieve World-Class performance

- Supported the design and implementation of BAT’s global organizational transformation project in Finance and IT (project “Leonardo”)

- Provided finance support and control for Germany’s marketing and sales organization and direct reporting to the German Board of Directors

2004-2006 Senior Consultant, Deloitte, Belgium 2002-2004 Management Reporting & Marketing Finance Manager, Novartis, Benelux

- Co-leader of the successful finance and marketing transformation project and subsequent SAP implementation in Benelux (2 years project)

- Management reporting and global finance support for Over-the-Counter Health Foods and Medical Nutrition business units

1999- 2001 Junior Consultant, Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte), Belgium ___________________________________________________________________________ Academic Background 2014-Present PhD program in Management, Employment Relations and Organizational

Behavior track (EROB), London School of Economics, UK. Topic: Towards a better understanding of the psychological contract through the

meaning of work in the banking and healthcare sector (employee’s perspective).

PhD sponsored by the Systemic Risk Centre – department of finance (LSE). Grant received in

2014. 2013-2014 MPhil in Management, Employment Relations and Organizational Behavior track (EROB),

London School of Economics, UK. 2012- 2013 MSc in Organizational Behavior, London School of Economics, UK. 2004- 2006 PhD-level Research, IAG business school, University of Louvain, Belgium

Conducted a PhD-level study on the cross-departmental reorganization of the public hospitals in Belgium.

1994-1999 Business Engineer Master Degree, Magna Cum Laude, Université catholique de Louvain,

Institut d’Administration et de Gestion (IAG)

Award(s) Awarded the “outstanding reviewer” award at the Academy of Management Meeting (2017) Published paper(s)

Paper on the “Five strategies to follow to introduce Corporate Strategy Responsibility in companies” published in 2008 in the Academic journal “Labour/Le Travail”. Paper Co-written with Prof. de Nanteuil-Miribel. Conference paper(s)

• Presented a paper on psychological contract, meaning of work and consequences on health and behavior (focusing on the banking and healthcare sector) at a paper session on the meaning of work at the Academy of Management Meeting 2017 (Atlanta, 2017). Sole Author.

• Presented a paper on mission driven companies and their consequences for their employees (focusing on the banking and healthcare sector) at a symposium on the meaning of work at the Academy of Management Meeting 2016 (Los Angeles, 2016). Sole Author.

• Presented a research poster at LSE Human Resources conference in 2015 on the issues raised by organizational identification in ethically challenged sectors. Sole Author.

• Presented “Corporate Social responsibility…to be or not to be” at the EROB Corporate Social Responsibility Conference Bordeaux (2006). Second author.

• Presented “The dilemmas of choosing the right Corporate Social Responsibility strategy” at the EROB Corporate Social Responsibility Conference Lyon (2005). Second author.

Teaching Certification 2015-2017 Advanced postgraduate certificate in higher education (Fellowship level), LSE. ___________________________________________________________________________