Kearney recently appointed Nicolas Lioliakis as senior fellow of its Global Business Policy Council (GBPC), according to a press release.
"Nicolas' tremendous experience and skillset will be vital to helping our clients navigate extremely challenging times," GBPC Managing Director Erik R. Peterson said. "As recent years have demonstrated, from the pandemic to growing geopolitical instability and resultant disruptions to global value chains, corporations are confronting an ever more volatile landscape in which to operate.”
Before assuming his current role at Kearney, Lioliakis also served as financial service leader of practice for Europe and adjunct professor at HEC Paris, where he taught strategy courses to students in the Master in Management program.
“Nicolas' global work experience in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, coupled with his deep background in financial services and corporate strategy, will provide great value to the council's mission to help leaders in business and government better anticipate and plan for the future," Peterson said.
Bringing in more than 25 years of financial service and management experience from Crédit Agricole and Dexia, Lioliakis specializes in initiatives targeting social impact issues. He has previously contributed to the Ashoka Social Network, Le Choix de l'école and la Fondation La France s'engage.
Based in Paris, the executive will be tasked with the same duties, and will now work alongside various boards and CEOs "to help their companies contend with the macrotrends and exogenous shocks impacting their industries and businesses," a recent press release stated.
"In the capacity of senior fellow with the Global Business Policy Council, I look forward to helping business leaders and their organizations grow more resilient in the face of mounting external shocks outside their direct control," Lioliakis said.
Founded in 1992, the Global Business Policy Council guides corporate and public-sector experts through geopolitical, economic, social and technological transitions to have minimal effects on the global operating environment for business.