Professor at IMD and the University of Lausanne Founder World Competitiveness Center
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Professor at IMD and the University of Lausanne Founder World Competitiveness Center
Professor at IMD and the University of Lausanne
Founder World Competitiveness Center
Chairman Le Temps
The world economy enters a new era of fragility. Weaker growth in emerging markets, commodity price instability, low to negative interest rates, currency fluctuations, financial turbulence, and a reform of the international tax system increase the feeling that the world economy in 2016 may be rather chaotic.
Yet, business must go on.
New markets are emerging, the silver generation. New brands are becoming global plus new business models “uberization” are disrupting established paradigms. The world is not what it used to be.
Despite these global challenges, opportunities abound for discerning and competitive companies. How can we win in this brave new world?
Professor at IMD Business School Lausanne,
Founder of the World Competitiveness Center
Professor at the University of Lausanne
Chairman of the newspaper Le Temps
Member, International Olympic Committee
commission on Sustainability and Legacy
Stephane Garelli - a world authority on competitiveness - has pioneered research in this field for 25 years. Professor at IMD (Institute of Management Development) Lausanne, where he has founded the World Competitiveness Centre, he is also professor at the University of Lausanne.
Professor Garelli is closely connected to the world of business. He is, among others, Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Le Temps", the leading French language Swiss newspaper. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of the Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding, and member of the board of the Banque Edouard Constant.
Professor Garelli was the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and of the Davos Symposium for many years. For twelve years he was also permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard.
He is a member of a number of institutes, such as: China Enterprise Management Association, Board of the ‘Fondation Jean Monet pour l'Europe’, The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Mexican Council for Competitiveness, etc. and an advisory committee member of the Thai Management Association. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee commission on Sustainability and Legacy
He is the author of numerous publications on competitiveness and global business, and he published his best-selling book "Top Class Competitors - How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness" with Wiley. His latest book in French is: “Etes-vous un tigre, un chat ou un dinosaure’, chez Slatkine, Genève.
He was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state - Vaud, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.
Thu, April 21, 2016
11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m.
(GMT+0200) Europe/Paris
Swissôtel Métropole
34 quai Général Guisan
Geneva 1204
Switzerland