SPEAKER: PROF. STEPHANE GARELLI

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 an authority on World Competitiveness and his research focusses particularly on how nations and enterprises compete on International markets.

He is also Director of the World Competitiveness Yearbook- the most comprehensive and reputed study in the field of the competitiveness of nations - which is published by IMD. This yearly report compares the competitiveness of forty-six nations using 250 criteria.

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, 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 Competitivness, etc.In 1999, he was elected to the Constitutional Assembly of his local state in Switzerland.