Thomas Allanic is the new general director of Ferrandi Paris

Ferrandi Paris, the French school of gastronomy and hotel management of the CCI Paris Ile-de-France, has a new general director: Thomas Allanic who took office this Monday, September 30. Holder of a master’s degree in sociology at the University of Paris VIII, Thomas Allanic has spent most of his career in business schools. Career which began in 2002 at ESCP Europe, where he successively held the functions of education manager, VAE evaluator (Validation of Acquired Experience), and project manager for the reform of the Grande Ecole Program . Subsequently, in 2011, he became responsible for academic coordination within the European Academic Department, then director of the Master in Management Grande École ESCP. “ Which allowed him in particular to set up the partnership between ESCP and Ferrandi Paris », underlines the CCI Paris Ile-de-France. Thomas Allanic joined INSEEC Grande Ecole in 2019 as deputy director and then director of the Villette Campus. And, since 2020, he has held the position of general director of INSEEC Grande Ecole.

« I am delighted to join Ferrandi Paris, a prestigious school of gastronomy and hotel management, a strong symbol of French know-how », declares its new general director, determined to ensure “ to consolidate its leadership as a major school of culinary arts, by affirming [son] positioning in terms of management in hospitality, in France and internationally; and to optimize the student experience, that of employees, but also of all its stakeholders “. Created more than 100 years ago by the CCI of Paris Ile-de-France, Ferrandi Paris trains 2,500 students, from CAP to Bac +5, and 2,000 adults in continuing education on five campuses: in Paris but also in Saint -Gratien, Bordeaux, Rennes and Dijon. A member of the Conference of Grandes Ecoles (CGE), this hotel school is one of the 14 schools of the CCI Paris Ile-de-France.