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Christian Ketels

Principal Associate - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, Director -The Cluster and Competitiveness Foundation

Dr. Christian Ketels is a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School and Principal Associate 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 in economics from the Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW) and the University of Cologne. He is currently also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Business (IIB) at the Stockholm School of Economics and serves as the Executive Director of the foundation "Clusters and Competitiveness", a not-for-profit organization located in Barcelona, Spain. He has led many initiatives and research projects on regional and national competitiveness issues, has written widely on economic policy issues, and has been a speaker at events in Europe, the United States, and Asia on country competitiveness and company strategy.