Christian Ketels

Doctor Christian Ketels is a professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS) Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, headed by Michael E. Porter. He holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), and also holds further degrees from the Kiel Institute for World Economics and the University of Cologne.

At present, he is also a partner and senior researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Competitiveness Institute (TCI), a global network of professionals interested in competitiveness and cluster development. Dr Ketels has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, he is a member of various consultancy groups in Europe and America, he has collaborated in a number of publications on economic policies and is a regular speaker on competitiveness and strategy in Europe, North America and Asia.