Gilbert Probst

Gilbert Probst is Managing Director, Leadership Office and Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Global Leadership Fellows programme at the World Economic Forum. He is also a full professor for Organisational Behaviour and Management and co-director o the Executive MBA programme at HEC, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has a PhD as well as habilitation in business administration from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. As a visiting faculty member, Professor Probst taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as well as at the International Management Institute (IMI, merged into IMD) in Geneva. He also served as the president of the board of Swiss Top Executive Training (SKU), the Swiss Board Institute and as a member of the board of the Swiss Management Society. He is the founder of the Geneva Knowledge Forum as well as CORE (Center for Organizational Excellence) at the Universities of St Gallen and Geneva, and the Strategic Knowledge Group, Zürich. He is an award-winning author of several books, papers and cases and has served as a board member and consultant for several companies.