About

Senior Economist

José Caballero is a Senior Economist at the IMD World Competitiveness Center. He is responsible for the Center’s different research projects and leads the research team in the development and implementation of new models of assessing competitiveness. He identifies relevant aspects of competitiveness and determines ways to incorporate them into the Center’s research agenda and portfolio.

His research interests focus on the sources of the competitiveness of countries and more specifically on the competitiveness of enterprises. Caballero is particularly interested in practices and processes that strengthen the competitiveness of firms which ultimately lead to the achievement of long term value creation. He is keen on understanding how social asymmetries impact value creation. He is passionate about identifying the means to ameliorate those asymmetries while furthering competitiveness.

Caballero has conducted research at the International Institute for Corporate Governance (Yale School of Management) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, USA). In addition, he has acted as an academic adviser to the World Justice Project in the development of the Rule of Law Index. He has also worked as a consultant for the European Union Support Program for Central American Integration, the Private Sector Advisory Department at the World Bank, the International Investment Corporation (World Bank), and the Inter-American Development Bank.

He is an expert on the political economy of Latin America and has taught at the University of Warwick (UK) and the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK). He holds a PhD in politics and international studies from the University of Warwick and an MA in social science (government) from Harvard University.

WCC Associate Director

William is a social economist, currently working on the competitiveness of nations and abridging its vast dataset into easily understandable stories and visualizations. As the Associate Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center, he oversees the production of the country competitiveness rankings, ensuring that the annual reports and commissioned projects run smoothly. He has a degree in Economic and Social History and a master’s degree in Information Management. He brings a multidisciplinary, holistic, approach to macro-economic theory and a long experience in supporting higher education research.

William was raised and studied in the United Kingdom but has lived in Niger, Chad, Serbia and Switzerland, where he was naturalized in 2009.