Prof Mention is the 1st president of the Institute for Research in Management and Engineering (INRME) since its development in 2015.

Prof Anne-Laure Mention is the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. She is also a Professor at the School of Management at RMIT, Melbourne; a visiting professor at University of Liege, Belgium and the Deputy Head of Centre for study of Business Performance at University of Liege, Belgium and a visiting professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She holds several other visiting positions in Europe and Asia. Anne-Laure is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Innovation Management, and the Deputy Head of the ISPIM Advisory Board. She is the co-editor of a book series on Open Innovation, published by World Scientific/Imperial College Press. She has been a Visiting Researcher at McGill University, Canada and Ferrara University, Italy and at Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore. Her research interests revolve around open and collaborative innovation, innovation in business to business services, with a particular focus on financial industry and fintech, technology management, and business venturing. She has been awarded twice the prestigious IBM Faculty Award for her research on innovation. Dr Anne-Laure Mention has more than 40 peer reviewed publications; and she holds MSc (Telecom - Electrical Engineering), Specialised Masters in Innovation Management, Masters in Finance and PhD in Economics & Management. Prof Mention is an admirable and much sought after speaker at research and innovation events.