Maral Muratbekova-Touron is the Paris campus representative for the Talent Management Institute. At ESCP Business School, again in Paris, she is an Associate Professor in the management department. Originally from Kazakhstan, she has gained academic and practical work experience in Kazakhstan, Russia and France.
Her research interests lie in the area of international human resource management and global talent management. Her research projects to date have focused on the international HRM approaches and talent management of multinational companies in developed (France, Canada) and developing countries (Russia, China and Brazil). She has also conducted research projects on intercultural management, including the development of clanism as an indigenous management concept in Central Asia.