Christian Ketels

Dr. Christian Ketels is a member of the Harvard Business School faculty at Professor Michael E. Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. He holds a PhD (Econ) from the London School of Economics and further degrees from the Kiel Institute for World Economics and Cologne University. He is President of TCI, a global network of professionals in the field of competitiveness, clusters, and innovation  and Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2009 he served as a Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, between 2009 and 2016 he was Honorary Professor at the European Business School Oestrich-Winckel, and in 2017 he spend some time at the IMF as a visiting scholar. In 2017 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration by Lappeenranta University of Technology(Finland). Dr. Ketels has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, has written widely on economic policy issues, and is a frequent speaker on competitiveness and strategy in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Dr. Ketels is the chair of the academic advisory board of ORKESTRA The Basque Competitiveness Institute and serves on the advisory boards of The Baltic Development Forum, the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Universidad de los Andes, the Center for Competitiveness at the University Fribourg, and is a special advisor to the Asia Competitiveness Institute. He is a member of the selection committee for the Spitzencluster-Initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), served on the European Commission''s European Cluster Policy Group and 2011 RegioStars jury, and is part of its Mirror Group for the  S3 Smart Specialization Platform.