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David Bach, President of IMD and Nestlé Professor of Strategy and Political Economy, helps leaders navigate the myriad challenges facing business today. As President of IMD, Bach is focused on making IMD the world’s most impactful business school. Together with his leadership team and the entire IMD community, he is working to broaden and deepen IMD’s global impact through learning innovation, excellence in degree- and executive programs, and applied thought leadership. Languages: English, German, and Spanish.

Areas of expertise:
-Geopolitics
-Political economy, political change and uncertainty, including from global elections, corporate diplomacy, or resurgent economic nationalism
-Leadership
-Impact of socio-political events on business and business/government collaboration

Recently featured in: The Financial Times,  Expansión, CNN, NZZ, amongst others.

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics. He is an expert in global economic policy and theory, specializing in international trade, and is recognized as an authority on the economic drivers and risks of globalization. His research interests include the impact of digital technology on the global economy, the future of work, globalization, regionalism, and European integration.He advises governments and international organizations around the world on globalization and trade policy issues. Languages: English and French.

Areas of expertise:
– Economic drivers, trade policies and risks of globalization and regionalism
– Impact of digital technology on the global economy

Recently featured in: Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, South China Morning Post, New York Times, amongst others.

Arturo Bris is Douglas Geertz IMEDE 1988 Professor in Geopolitics and Business, Professor of Finance, and Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC), which produces trusted annual rankings on economies’ competitiveness. He works on the international aspects of financial regulation and corporate finance, and with governments to assess, measure, and manage the competitiveness of their countries. An award-winning teacher and program director, he ranks among the top 100 most-read finance academics worldwide. He is the author of several books, a frequent speaker at international conferences, and appears regularly in international media publications. Languages: English, French, and Spanish.

Areas of expertise:
-Geopolitics
-Corporate finance and governance
-Financial regulation
-Competitiveness

Recently featured in: The Financial Times, El Mundo, The Wall Street Journal, Handelsblatt, Journal of Financial Economics, among others.

Simon Evenett is Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy. A globally recognized expert on trade, investment, and geopolitical dynamics, he is a leading analyst of the global business environment. In 2023, he was appointed Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Trade and Investment. His research focuses on geopolitical rivalry, international trade policy, protectionism, industrial policy, business-government relations, trade negotiations and agreements, and the WTO. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Worldwide business environment shifts and their implications
-Geopolitical rivalry, international trade policy, protectionism
– Industrial policy
-Business-government relations, trade negotiations and agreements

Recently featured in: The Financial Times, Reuters, Sky News, The New York Times, and BBC News, amongst others.

Amit Joshi is Professor of AI, Analytics and Marketing Strategy, renowned for his expertise in leveraging artificial intelligence and advancing big data, analytics, and AI capabilities within organizations. He has spearheaded transformative AI and analytics initiatives across diverse industries, including banking, fintech, retail, automotive, telecoms, and pharma. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-AI application for major corporations and start-ups
-Understanding data and upscaling analytical capabilities for successful digital transformation
-Challenges faced by businesses, organisations and legislators in identifying optimal AI strategies and their implementation and effective regulation

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review,  MIT Sloan Review, amongst others.

José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy. He focuses on the management and economics of data and privacy and how firms can create sustainable value in the digital economy. An award-winning teacher, he also founded his own successful startup, was appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community of young people driving change, and was named on the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list of outstanding young entrepreneurs in Switzerland. His research explores the impact of digital innovation on economic performance, particularly on the role that data and AI can play in solving organizational and societal problems. Languages: English, Spanish, and German.

Areas of expertise:
-AI and digital transformation
-Data privacy
-Economics of data

Recently featured in: MIT Sloan Management Review, The Conversation. 

Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, also known as Misiek, is Professor of Digital Strategy, Analytics and Innovation and Dean of Executive Education. He is an expert on digital strategy, platform strategy, and the process of digital business transformation. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Organizational Design, and has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and Organization Science. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Digital business transformation
-Digital strategy
-Platform strategy

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review, Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, amongst others.

Michael Wade is the TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital, and the Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. An expert in digital transformation, he has published 10 books and more than 100 case studies as well as many articles on topics such as digital business transformation, innovation, strategy, and digital leadership. In 2021, he was elected to the Digital Shapers Hall of Fame by a consortium of Swiss business media. He launched the Management under the Microscope podcast, in which he unpacks business myths through conversations with academics and business executives. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-AI and digital transformation
-Driving business value through digital tools and technologies
-Improving innovation and creativity, leading effectively in a digital age, and the link between digitalization and ethics

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review, Le Temps, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, amongst others.

Howard Yu is the LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD. He leads the Center for Future Readiness. Howard is the Co-Director of Strategy for Future Readiness, and Future-Ready Enterprise – jointly offered with MIT. Yu is recognized globally for his expertise and in 2023, he was honored with the Thinkers50 Strategy Award, in light of his substantial contributions to management strategy and future readiness. His inclusion into the Thinkers50 list places him among the top global management thinkers. Languages: English and Chinese.

Areas of expertise:
-Future readiness: which companies are best positioned to seize future opportunities
-Innovation, the importance of future planning and adapting to new technologies
-Strategy and growth
-Specific insights into the fortunes of major global companies, including Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia, Nike, LVMH, Amazon, Novo Nordisk

Recently featured in: BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Magazine, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloane Management Review, amongst others.

Jennifer Jordan is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Her teaching, research, and consulting focus on influence, power, family business, women’s leadership, and leadership transitions. In 2019, she was named by Poets&Quants as one of the world’s leading business school professors under 40. At IMD, she is Director of Leading Digital Execution, Women on Boards, Advanced Leadership, and Leadership Essentials open programs. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership
-Family business
-Organizational behavior
-Digital leadership
-Ethics, influence and power
-Conflict resolution within organizations

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and De Volkskrant, amongst others.

Alyson Meister is Dean of Degree Programs and Hilti Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior.​ She also leads IMD’s workplace well-being initiative. Her research examines how leaders manage stress and recovery, the impact of mobile phone addiction at work, how identity shapes behavior under pressure, and how workplace dynamics affect performance and well-being.​ Alyson was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list in 2021 and nominated for a Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership
-Organizational behaviour
-Workplace well-being

Recently featured in: MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, amongst others.

Ben Bryant is Professor of Leadership and Organization. He was previously the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership. He works with a wide range of CEOs and their executive teams and presents his research at many leading academic institutions. His models and frameworks of leadership have been used in the development of top teams, senior and mid-level executives, and in the development of strategy, execution, and change. His research into cultures of innovation has been used to guide organizations to generate new sources of value creation. Bryant is passionate about helping managers to reduce boundaries created by functional silos and national borders and to manage conflict and tension. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership
-Organizational change

Michael Watkins is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. He is a globally recognized leadership transitions expert and author of the best-selling book The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter. It has sold more than 1.5 million copies and been translated into 23 different languages. In 2023, Watkins was inducted into the Thinkers50 Management Hall of Fame, which recognizes remarkable contributions to the realm of management concepts and ideas spanning many years. He has authored 15 books on leadership and negotiation and hundreds of articles for leading business journals. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership and organizational change
-Leadership and effective business negotiations
-Leadership transitions

Recently featured in: CEO Insight, The European Business Review, New York Observer, People Management, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloane Management Review, amongst others.

Didier Cossin is the Chaired Professor of Governance and Finance, and Founder and Director of the IMD Global Board Center. He works with owners, boards, and senior leaders to help them improve organizational performance through best-in-class governance and decision-making. Cossin also holds the UBS Chair in Banking and Finance. He favors an adaptive and interactive approach to finding distinctive solutions for organizations based on the social, geopolitical, technological, and economic transformations in different regions of the world. Languages: English and French.

Areas of expertise:
-Governance
-Governance of investments
-Board effectiveness

Recently featured in: Management Science, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Computational Finance, and MIT Sloan Management Review, amongst others.

Marleen Dieleman holds the Peter Lorange Chair in Family Business. Her research focuses on the governance, strategy, internationalization, innovation, and transformation of business families in emerging markets, and also on emerging market state-owned enterprises and the interaction between these companies and their governments. She is a best-selling and award-winning case writer and is the Associate Editor of Multinational Business Review and an editorial review board member of various academic journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Family Business Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Governance
-Family business (Asia focused)
-Business transformation

Recently featured in: The Economist, the Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg, amongst others.

Peter Vogel is Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship. An expert on family enterprises, he leads IMD’s work in this field as Director of the IMD Global Family Business Center and Debiopharm Chair in Family Philanthropy. He works with families, owners, boards, and executives of family enterprises and family offices around the world. Languages: English and German.

Areas of expertise:
-Family business
-Governance
-Ownership and leadership succession
-Wealth management
-Fostering entrepreneurialism and innovation

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review, CNN, Huffington Post, Forbes, Financial Times, Techcrunch, amongst others.

Salvatore Cantale is Professor of Finance. His academic and consulting work is divided into two different but complementary streams; he works at the intersection between strategy, business models, and financial results. His work on the relationship between ESG and finance aims to increase the understanding of how ESG policies impact both sustainability outcomes and financial results. Cantale has been published in a variety of international double-refereed journals on topics such as IPOs, security design, financial engineering, and dual listing. Languages: English and Spanish.

Areas of expertise:
-Finance
-Sustainable business models
-ESG and Finance

Recently featured in: MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, amongst others.

Karl Schmedders is Professor of Finance. His research and teaching focuses on sustainability and the economics of climate change. His expertise in computational methods in finance means that he is able to apply numerical solution techniques to complex economic and financial models and shed light on a range of topical market issues and industry problems for organizations. He has published numerous research articles in international academic journals. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Sustainability and the economics of climate change
-Just transition

Recently featured in: Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, amongst others.

Heather Cairns-Lee is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication. Her award-winning research and teaching focus on sensemaking in leaders and organizations, collaboration, authentic and effective communication and the creation of diverse, caring and inclusive cultures.  With her co-editors she has published a ground-breaking book on Clean Language Interviewing to provide insights into how language can be used most effectively to understand people’s lived and unique experience. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership
-Effective communication

Ric Roi is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Organization. He is a senior business psychologist who advises boards and CEOs on matters related to board renewal, CEO succession, and leadership transitions. He is also an expert in top team effectiveness and strategic talent management solutions. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Leadership
-Leadership transitions
-Progression
-Strategic talent planning management

Recently featured in: Forbes magazine, amongst others.

Cyril Bouquet is Professor of Strategy and Innovation. An award-winning researcher and teacher, he specializes in helping organizations and executives tackle complex challenges through innovation and creativity and supporting them with their transition journeys as they seek to create change and deliver progress for society. Projects he has recently taken on include helping Nestlé to achieve its carbon neutrality objectives, working with O-I Glass to define the company’s ambition and advance its sustainability agenda, rethinking the banking experience with UBS and UBP, and re-imagining the future of women’s football with UEFA and the International Olympic Committee. Bouquet is also Director of IMD’s Innovation in Action program. He also serves on the editorial board of California Management Review. Languages: English.

Areas of expertise:
-Strategy, innovation, and growth

Recently featured in: Forbes Magazine, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, amongst others.

Niccolò Pisani is Professor of Strategy and International Business. His teaching helps leaders to identify the strategic choices with the greatest impact and to develop the capabilities needed to excel in their execution. He is a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of International Business Policy.n 2025, five of his case studies ranked as bestsellers amongst the over 30,000 cases globally distributed by Harvard Publishing, and he won both the EFMD Global Case Writing Competition Award and The Case Centre Strategy and General Management Award for his case “Future-proofing HEINEKEN: The EverGreen strategy.” Languages: English and Italian.

Areas of expertise:
-Strategy, innovation and growth
-Strategy design and execution
-International business, globalization and sustainability

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review, Sloane Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, amongst others.

Stéphane JG Girod is Professor of Strategy and Organizational Innovation. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on the transformation of large businesses to suit more volatile and fast-changing environments. His book, Resetting Management: Thrive with Agility in the Age of Uncertainty, shows how agility can release a new level of energy, innovation, and entrepreneurship that enables organizations to better respond to disruption. As an expert in the upmarket sectors, he helps executives navigate transformations marking contemporary luxury. His forthcoming book with Wiley (2026), will focus on the formulation and execution of strategies for positive-impact sustainability across six luxury sectors. ​Languages: English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Areas of expertise:
– Strategy formulation
-Organizational and cultural change
-Business agility
-Sustainability
-Luxury industries
-Formulation and execution of digital strategies

Julia Binder is Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, and Program Director of IMD’s Creating Value in the Circular Economy program. She is a renowned thought leader, recognized on the 2022 Thinkers50 Radar list for her work at the intersection of sustainability and innovation. She works with organizations worldwide to lead transformation and build future-ready businesses. Her teaching and research focus on how leaders can navigate disruption, reimagine their organizations, and create value in a rapidly changing world. Languages: English.
Areas of expertise:
-Sustainability
-Business transformation
-Circular economy
-Strategic innovation

Recently featured in: Harvard Business Review,  MIT Sloan Review, amongst others.

Knut Haanaes is Professor of Strategy and Lundin Chair Professor of Sustainability. His research and teaching focus on strategy, sustainability, strategic renewal, and business models. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) an alliance of eight leading European business schools, which was launched in 2021 to address the climate crisis. He is also deeply involved in IMD’s strategic partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which aims to equip business leaders with the skills to accelerate the pace of sustainable business transformation. Languages:English and French.

Areas of expertise:
-Sustainability
-Sustainable transformation
-Strategic renewal,and business models
-Climate change

Recently featured in: Ted Talks, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, amongst others.

Carlos Cordon is Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management. His research and teaching are currently focused on the reconfiguration of supply chains in the face of persistent disruptions, how supply chains are driving revenue, reshoring and onshoring, and digital strategies. He is the author of numerous articles and case studies and has won various awards for his work. He was named on The Case Center list of the top 50 best-selling case authors globally in 2021/22 and was a winner in the 2017 EFMD Case Writing Competition with IMD colleagues for a case study on Adidas. He is the author of four books, including the 2016 title Strategy is Digital, which explores how companies can use big data in their value chains. Languages: English and French.

Areas of expertise:
-Supply chain management
-Reconfiguration of supply chains
-Process management

Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. He has also worked on industry analysis, competitive strategy, and new venture formation. He has co-authored three managerial books, the book titled The Digital Supply Chain Challenge: Breaking Through, first published in 2020 serves as a handbook for supply chain executives navigating the complexities of digital transformation. Alongside his role at IMD, Seifert is a tenured professor at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he has held the Chair of Technology and Operations Management since 2003. Languages: English and German.

Areas of expertise:
-Operations management
-Supply chain strategy and technology management
-Digital transformation of supply chains