HÉLÈNE GENÉTY, THE NEW FACE OF THE FOUNDATION

Hélène Genéty joined the IÉSEG Foundation in September 2022. Her first mission is to create the Foundation’s strategic plan before deploying the implementation of activities that will affect all of the school’s departments in France and abroad. She holds a Master 2 research degree in Art History and a Master 2 professional degree in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2022, she trained in management issues, notably through a continuing education programme at Cornell University. Before joining the IÉSEG Foundation, she set up a national service scheme dedicated to sponsorship and partnerships under the responsibility of the Secretary General of the Compagnons du Devoir, before ensuring its development during six years. Before that, she acquired expertise on the challenges of sponsorship at the Fondation du Patrimoine (Limousin Delegation). In connection with her university studies, she studied the impact of art on commercial practices within art departments (Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Hermès International). Her first position at UNESCO, in 2010, led her to work on the conservation of the organisation’s art collection. Returning to France in the summer of 2022 after a year in the United States where she worked in the communication and sponsorship department of a Minnesota food bank (Feeding America), she now wishes to contribute fully to the development of the IÉSEG Foundation.

Equal Opportunities To Start The Implementation Of The Foundation

Student grants are the most visible part of this strategy. «The development of the Foundation starts with the crucial issue of equal opportunities to help all students reach their full potential. It is a moral and societal imperative, but also the means to guarantee the experimentation of diversities by offering a plural, more fulfilling and more varied student life experience», underlines the new head of the Foundation, Hélène Genéty (see opposite). The Foundation’s objective is to set up tailor-made scholarships, adapted to the needs of students (living scholarships, excellence scholarships, international mobility scholarships, research scholarships), while working on the social openness of IÉSEG in a transverse way between the school’s different departments. The aim is to imagine and support projects with a strong societal impact: the creation of a job observatory on the integration of young people, a solidarity fund for students in financial difficulty, inclu- sive learning modules for high school and university students: «digital accessibility for all».