Sylvain Bureau is a professor of Entrepreneurship at ESCP in Paris, where he holds the Improbable Chair supported by Galeries Lafayette. As the co-founder of the Improbable Seminar, he has led creative workshops in over 16 countries — from Stanford to Tokyo — and trained more than 100 professors using an open-source syllabus. The Improbable Seminar, often held in venues like the Centre Pompidou, was highly commended by the Financial Times in 2025.