<p>Xavier Deroy&nbsp; is Professor of of Strategy and Orgnaization Studies. He has got his HDR from the University Paris Daunphine, Phd from CNAM, Paris, Master in Economics from Paris Dauphine and Is also alumini of Rouen Management School. He teaches Strategy and was the former director of Masternova&nbsp; with Agro paris tech and has also been head of department. He has pubished many papers in international journals, such as Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Change Managment, Management International, and also in french jjournals as RFG and Entreprise et histoire. He has edited a book and is hte author of numerous chapter in french and english books. He has organised during 8 years a track in Euram Conference devoted to events and Organization and participated to many other international Conferences such as Egos or Anzam. His main areas of research are events and management, complexity and management and organizational evolution</p>