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TCI Director Christian Ketels

Dr. Christian Ketels is TCI Director elected in Portland during the General Assembly.

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 also is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics and Executive Director of the foundation Clusters and Competitiveness, a not-for-profit incorporated in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Ketels has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, is a member of economic advisory groups in Europe and the Americas, has written widely on economic policy issues, and has been a frequent speaker on competitiveness and strategy in Europe, North America and Asia. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Stockholm, Sweden, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.