Nathalie Riond

CDL-Paris Space Stream Academic Director

Nathalie Riond has a 25 years’ experience in the field of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. She is familiar with the strategic and innovation processes within large corporations, as she worked for General Electric for years and advised many other companies through her consulting firm. She is also an entrepreneur herself, as she founded two companies within the last 20 years. She is also a professor at HEC Paris: she is the academic director of the Impact Entrepreneurship programs as well as a teacher and advisor to tech startups within different entrepreneurship programs. She is also in charge of the foresight research on the future of the space economy, which is done in partnership with the European Space Agency and ArianeGroup. She recently took the academic lead on the CDL Space Stream in Paris. Over the last 15 years, she advised hundreds of tech startups and is sitting on the advisory boards of several of the most successful ones.