Olivier Sibony
Strategy professor and author
Olivier Sibony is a French professor of strategy at HEC Paris who studies how to make better decisions. He is a co-author of Noise, with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein.
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French Born 1967
About Olivier Sibony
Born in 1967, Olivier Sibony is a French academic and writer. He is a professor of strategy at HEC Paris and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at Oxford University. His research looks at how biases affect strategic decisions and how decision processes can be improved. Before becoming a professor, he spent 25 years at McKinsey & Company in France and the US, where he was a Senior Partner and helped lead the Global Strategy Practice. He studied at HEC Paris and holds a PhD from Université Paris-Dauphine. He wrote You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!, which received the Manpower Foundation's 2019 Grand Prize as management book of the year. He is also a co-author of Cracked it! and of Noise, a New York Times best-seller that he wrote with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein. He advises senior leaders on decision-making and often speaks at management events.