Stephane Garelli

Stephane Garelli is a world authority on the International Competitiveness of Enterprises and Nations. He is a Professor at both the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) - where he heads the World Competitiveness Centre - and at the University of Lausanne.

He is an authority on world competitiveness and his research focuses particularly on how nations and enterprises compete on international markets. Stephane is a Director of the World Competitiveness Yearbook - the most comprehensive and reputed study in the field of the competitiveness of nations - that is published by IMD. This yearly report compares the competitiveness of forty-six nations using 250 criteria.

Stephane is closely connected to the world of business. He is 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.