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Emiliano Duch

Emiliano Duch is one of the Founders and has been President of The Competitiveness Institute - he still forms part of the Board of Advisors and is very active in the developments and the events of TCI.

Emiliano Duch is President and founder of the firm COMPETITIVENESS, an international consulting group specialized in "Building Competitive Business Clusters", which he founded with the support of leading business leaders as Michael Porter and Alessandro Benetton, as well as specialized banking institutions. As CEO of COMPETITIVENESS he has acted as advisor to hundreds of clusters, providing them with strategic advice and specialized e-services, through projects sponsored by local banks, Governments, as well as multilateral institutions (European Commission, UN). The Group has conducted more than 100 consulting projects on competitiveness reinforcement at cluster level, and even has a stake in the first succesful B2B cluster portal in Europe, located in Sassuolo (Italy) (http://www.ceramicaclusters.com/).

He is Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University, MBA (Class of 91) from the Harvard Business School, and originally an Architect from the UPC in Barcelona.

Emiliano has acted as advisor to Public Administration Institutions and Governments all over the world, including different Regions of Spain, UK, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, Thailand, as well as for multilateral institutions like the European Union, the United Nations, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Emiliano has currently been directing the Study on the "Entrepreneurial innovation in the new Member States: challenges and issues at stake for the development of clusters of innovative firms", funded by the EU Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry's Innovation Unit, which has involved the mapping of clusters in the 10 new member states of the EU and the assessment of cluster and innovation policies carried out by national and regional governments.