Ivan COSTE-MANIÈRE

Executive Advisor, Patent and Intellectual Property, International Brand Management

Pr.Ivan COSTE-MANIÈRE is one of the best international experts on patents and intellectual property issues. He is a serial entrepreneur who has more than thirty years of practice in various areas as those of oil industry, pharmaceutical industry, aviation, sport, and luxury industry.  He is by far one of the world’s leading luxury specialist.

He is currently a Professor of Marketing, Luxury Management and Entrepreneurship in several world-class Universities and Business School in Asia, USA, Latin America as well as Europe, including  Skema Business School, where he has been the dean of the marketing department. In the last 10 years he is the Director of the Master of Sciences in Luxury and Fashion Management program in Skema.

Pr.Ivan is a true man of networks, he is the President of various of Olympic Sports and Humanitarian associations that involve celebrities in the world.

He holds an engineering degree, a MSc and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of AIX-Marseille.