Professor Hyafil is currently Chair of the Finance Department at HEC, France leading "Ivy League" Business School, where he has been teaching for more than twenty years, and holding executive positions, notably as Dean of the Faculty. His areas of interest include corporate and financial strategy, corporate valuation, and corporate governance.
He has also been on the Visiting Faculty at the Sloan School, MIT. He taught or is teaching at various schools or institutes throughout the world, such as Fundaçao Dom Cabral in Brazil, Bahrein Banking Training Center in the Emirates, the Baltic Institute of Management in Lithuania, Ecole Supérieure des Affaires in Lebanon, the ENPC MBAs in New Delhi, India and Nagoya, Japan, Insead in Singapore, as well as several Asia Inc. Executive Education Seminars organized in Southeast Asia
Professor Hyafil has also developed and taught in a large number of custom made executive programs, all over the world. The most recent clients have included American National Can, Amora-Maille, Faurecia, Gemplus, Pechiney, Pernod Ricard, Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux, TotalFinaElf, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, AGF, SCOR and a few others. As a member of the Cambridge Academics & Consultants Network, he also consults with small and large corporations throughout the world. He has been an officer of The First National Bank of Chicago and an Academic in Residence with Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Department. His various missions have led him to be involved in many financial assignments, such as financial planning, corporate valuation, and mergers and acquisitions.
Professor Hyafil holds a Masters degrees in Political Science (1968) from University of Paris and in Business Administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1972). and a Joint Doctorate in Business Administration (1979) with Distinction from University of Orléans and HEC Doctoral Program.