Laurent Tranchida

Laurent Tranchida, Chief Human Resources Officer, oversees the recruitment and retention of IMD’s most important asset: its people. He joined the institution in 2018 after a long career in corporate human resources. He has been a member of the top management team at IMD since the IMD Executive Committee was established in January 2020.

Tranchida came to IMD after more than a decade at Sidel, a world leader in FMCG packaging, where he held a variety of human resources leadership roles in Paris, Le Havre and Zurich. Before Sidel, he spent 15 years at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen in Paris, where he held a number of functions spanning HR, training and internal communications, technical publishing and client services.

Tranchida holds two Master’s degrees, one in management and human resources development from École des Ressources Humaines, IGS-RH in Lyon, and another in executive coaching from Cergy-Pontoise University. He is also an IMD alumnus, having completed the High Performance Leadership and Orchestrating Winning Performance programs.