Dr. Denis Lescop is Professor of Strategy, specialist in innovation and digital transformation at Montpellier Business School. After a PhD in economics in 2000, Denis built his expertise in Telecom/Internet by holding expert positions in the French high administration, first at the Telecom Regulatory Authority and then at the French Competition Council where he was notably rapporteur for the Canal+/TPS merger.
He returned to full-time higher education at TELECOM Ecole de Management (Institut Mines-Télécom) in 2006. Integrated as a lecturer-researcher, he became Head of the Innovation research team (2007-2010) then Director of the Research Centre and Director of Research (2010-2013). He leaves across the Atlantic in 2014 to set up the TEM campus at Virginia Tech.
In 2017, he joins Montpellier Business School. With his experience, Denis develops teaching and research around platform strategies, new forms of competition and the dynamics of change related to digital transformation.