Stephane Garelli

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Stephane Garelli is an internationally reknowned keynote speaker on economics, business and the changing world.

Professor at IMD and World Competitiveness Yearbook

Stephane Garelli is a Professor at both the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the world's leading business schools, and at the University of Lausanne. He is also the director of IMD's World Competitiveness Center and an authority on World Competitiveness: his research focuses particularly on how nations and enterprises compete on International markets.

He publishes the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook - the most comprehensive and reputed study in the field of the competitiveness of nations. This yearly report compares the competitiveness of forty-six nations using 250 criteria.

Stéphane Garelli is widely considered to be one of the top lecturers on economic and business matters. He has a unique ability to analyze and describe the world economic environment as it evolves, and to draw conclusions about what changes in the world economy actually mean for companies and individuals alike.

Professor Garelli and the world of Business

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. The author of numerous publications in the field of competitiveness, international trade and investments, he is also a columnist in several magazines. For twelve years he was permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard, and before that Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and of the Davos Symposium for many years. 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 Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, the Mexican Council for Competitiveness, etc.

He was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state - Vaud, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.

TOPICS

• The Competitiveness of Enterprises on World Markets
• The Competitiveness of Nations
• The New Rules of Competitiveness Today
• The Impact of New Technologies, Opening Markets and Increased Productivity
• The Consequences of Competitiveness on Work, Attitudes and Skills
  

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