Stéphane Garelli (Switzerland)

Acknowledged as a leading authority on competitiveness, Stéphane Garelli is Professor at the International Institute for Management Development and the University of Lausanne. He is also Director of the World Competitiveness Centre.

Garelli focuses on how companies and countries compete in international markets. Given that globalisation makes us much more vulnerable to external forces, he analyses the economic environment and measures the prospects - taking infrastructure, education, technology and demographics into account.

He demonstrates how, as emerging markets turn into emerging powers, market share is becoming increasingly important. Companies must accept a higher degree of risk in their operations and adopt a more aggressive mindset.

Professor Garelli is chairman of Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Prior to that he was Chairman of Sandoz Banking Holdings and a board member of Banque Edouard Constant. He served as senior advisor to Hewlett-Packard Europe, and before that Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and The Davos Symposium.

Stéphane Garelli is a member of the China Enterprise Management Association and the Royal Society. He has also been elected to the Constitutional Assembly of his local state in Switzerland.

Garelli's presentations are always forceful, accessible and above all thought provoking.

JLA Client Comments

"Brilliant, amusing and very interesting - he made economics fascinating and relevant to everybody" Mail on Sunday