Elen Riot is a Full Professor at the University of Reims Champagne Ardennes. She is a graduate from the ENS de Lyon (LSH) and HEC Paris (CEMS program). She defended her Ph-D in the GREGHEC (Paris 1-La Sorbonne, HEC, Ecole Polytechnique, le CNAM) in strategy and politics. She currently teaches strategy and entrepreneurship. She is the head of the entrepreneurship, innovation and bioeconomics in her faculty. She is a member of the REGARDS research laboratory and a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Chair (Chaire ESS). She is part of the  Grand Est Entrepreneurship program  as the coordinator of the axis " entrepreneurship values". She is a member of the Société Française de Management.

Her research activities mainly deal with three specific issues: alternative organizations (cooperatives, associations, social movements, temporary organizations), nature and environment (bioeconomics, sustainable development, symbiosis) and arts and culture more specifically living arts within the « Pole Arts”, a research entity shared with the Departments of Humanities. She favors fieldwork investigation using ethnographic methods. She finds an inspiration in the tradition of the anthropology of communication and retro-history (The Annals School). She also uses visual methods as part of multidisciplinary and multi-level methods. Her papers are published in international reviews like Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Strategy and Management, Management International, Autonomie local e servizi sociali. She recently edited a book on arts and social movements in the world.

She acts as a reviewer for Organisation Studies (FNEGE 1/HCERES A) ; Management international (FNEGE 2/HCERES A) ; Information and Organization (FNEGE 2/HCERES A), Management Learning (FNEGE 2/HCERES A) ; Human Relations (FNEGE 2/HCERES A) ; La Revue Française de Gestion ((FNEGE 2/HCERES A) ; Business and Society (FNEGE 2/HCERES C) et Journal of Organizational Ethnography (NC). In the past, she worked for the Ouest France group, publishing houses like Le Seuil and Flammarion. She was part of the editorial team of the Technology Review (France) and the review Entreprendre et Innover. She brings to the RIPCO her passion for research, the international news and intellectual debates. As part of the editorial team, she will be keenly invested in issues relating to strategy, power and politics, innovation and entrepreneurship.