Director of the Center 

Advisory Board

Research Team

Affiliates 

The list of our affiliates with pictures can be downloaded here

• Fernando Alberti, Professor and Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness, LIUC Business School, Carlo Cattaneo University, Castellanza, Italy

• Tamar Almor, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Full Professor of Management and International Business, College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel

• Jacques Bersier, Former Co-Director of HEIA-FR (Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg), Fribourg, Switzerland

• Gilberto Cardenas, Associate Professor, Public Finance Department, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

• Danuvasin Charoen, Professor, NIDA (National Institute of Development Administration) Business School, Bangkok, Thailand

• Jérôme Dällenbach, Physician (MD) and Economist (MA), General Practitioner, Fribourg, Switzerland, and Professional Pilot on commercial aircrafts

• Àngels Dasí, Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, University of Valencia, Spain

• Mahmoud Elburai, Director of the Middle East Cities Center, American University in Dubai, and Senior Advisor in Dubai Government

• Marc Fetscherin, Professor, Department of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA

• Noelia Garcia Nebra, Head of Sustainability - advancing ISO's commitment to the UN SDGs, ISO (International Organisation for Standardization), Geneva , Switzerland

• Sasidaran Gopalan, Professor of Economics, United Arab Emirate University, Abu Dhabi

• José Guimón, Associate Professor, Department of Development Economics, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and Advisor to the Minister of Science and Innovation

• Peter Hertenstein, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Development Economics), co-founder and CEO of a tech start-up (in stealth mode), lecturer in Business Management at University of Tübingen and HWR, Berlin, Germany

• Tatchawan Kanitpong, Professor and Dean of NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand

• Michael Keller, Former Assistant Editor, Competitiveness Review, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

• Hala Khaled A. Al Ameri, Head of the Competitiveness Office of Abu Dhabi, Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi

• Stefan Kraxner, Head of the Competitiveness Performance Division, Competitiveness Office of Abu Dhabi, Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi

• Damiano Lepori, Doctor in Political Economy, CEO of Bulliard Immobilier SA, Fribourg, Switzerland

• Julie Michel, Scientific Advisor, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Swiss Confederation, Bern, Switzerland

• Jomphong Mongkhonvanit, Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Siam University and Vice-President of Siam University, Bangkok, Thailand

• Viput Ongsakul, Professor, Former Dean of NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand

• Pavida Pananond, Professor, Full-time Faculty Member, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Emanuele Pizzurno, Professor, LIUC Business School, Carlo Cattaneo University, Castellanza, Italy

• José Pla-Barber, Full Professor of International Business, Management Department, University of Valencia, Spain

• Mathieu Resbeut, Doctor in Political Economy, Junior Project Manager, BAK Economics AG, Basel, Switzerland
• Saman Sarbazvatan, Senior Advisor and Professor, COO and Deputy Dean, Ecole des Ponts Business School of Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Paris, France
• Khee Giap Tan, Professor, Full-time Faculty Member of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and Chairman of the Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, Singapore

• Xavier Tinguely, Manager, Transfer Pricing & Value Chain Alignment, Deloitte, Geneva, Switzerland

• Prapaporn Tivayanond Mongkhonvanit, Assistant Professor and Dean of the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

• Vladimir Tomsik, Ambassador of the Czech Republic in China, Beijing, China

• Fred van Eenenaam, Professor and Chairman of the Netherlands Institute for Competitiveness, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Laura Vanoli, Scientific Advisor, Federal Department of Finances (FDF), Swiss Confederation, Bern, Switzerland

• Cristina Villar, Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Valencia, Spain

• Pradit Wanara, Professor, NIDA Business School, and Former President of NIDA, Bangkok, Thailand

• James Zhan, Director of the Division on Investment and Enterprise at UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), and Lead of the annual World Investment Report, Geneva, Switzerland