Alain BURLAUD graduated from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and defended his thesis in management sciences in 1976. He joined Le Cnam in 1994 as a professor (head of the chair of Accounting and management control) and was in charge of the Institut national des techniques économiques et comptables (Intec), one of the leading institutes of Le Cnam. He is currently emeritus professor. He was previously a full professor at the Université Paris Est Créteil. He started his career as an auditor with Ernst & Young. He is a member of Lirsa and currently works on the history of management education and research in France since the beginning of the 19th century. He has been the President of the French Accounting Association (AFC) and of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM). He is also a member of the scientific committees of several academic journals.
