Professor and leading scholar of global innovation and R&D management, specializing in innovation strategy in emerging markets and China. Since August 2025 he has been Full Professor of Strategic Management in Asia at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and Managing Director of the university’s Institute of Management in Asia (based in Singapore). He is the founder and director of the GLORAD Center for Global R&D and Innovation and has more than two decades of experience in research, teaching, and consulting on global innovation.

He previously held professorships at Tsinghua University (China), IMD (Switzerland), Skoltech (Moscow), Copenhagen Business School, and Kaunas University of Technology, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. He served as Vice President and Global Innovation Lead at PRTM Management Consultants (now PwC) in Shanghai and co-founded AsiaCompete. He holds a Ph.D. and MBA from the University of St. Gallen and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. He has written more than 100 scientific articles and 17 books and is, according to Google Scholar, the most-cited author on “global innovation” and “incubation.”