Arturo Bris

Arturo Bris is Professor of Finance and Director of the renowned IMD World Competitiveness Center. As an award-winning lecturer and program director, he is one of the 100 most widely read finance scholars in the world. In addition to being the author of several specialist books, he is a sought-after speaker at international conferences and regularly appears in the global media.

His academic work has been published in leading journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Legal Studies and The Journal of Business. In addition, his articles regularly appear in renowned business media such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and Handelsblatt.

Arturo Bris Speaking Topics

• Competitiveness and Protectionism: Where is the World going?
• Economics of AI, Data, Tech & AgenticAI
• Finance and Economy 2030: What is life like after the coronavirus and war in Ukraine?
• The World Competitiveness Index – Global economic capability despite wars & supply chain problems
• How Resource Efficiency Drives the Competitiveness of Companies
• Flex or Fail: The Future of Jobs and Pay
• The Competitiveness Challenge in a fragmented World
• Smart Cities: How Technology Improves Quality of Life

Arturo Bris’s areas of expertise include corporate finance, corporate governance, financial regulation, and competitiveness. As Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center, he works with governments all over the world assessing, measuring, and managing the competitiveness of countries. The WCC produces trusted annual rankings on economies’ competitiveness, and, under his leadership, it has expanded its coverage by adding new rankings on talent, digital competitiveness, and smart cities.

Arturo Bris is one of the most important experts in the globally interconnected world of business and finance.

Arturo Bris: “Competitiveness determines how countries, regions, and companies manage their competencies to achieve long-term growth, generate jobs, and increase welfare. Competitiveness is, therefore, a way towards progress that does not result in winners and losers. When two countries compete, both are better off.”

In addition to leading the Center, Bris conducts research on the relationship between income inequality, social mobility, and competitiveness. His work on the international aspects of financial regulation focuses particularly on the effects of bankruptcy, short sales, insider trading, and merger laws. He has also researched and lectured on the effects of the Euro on the corporate sector and the valuation impact of corporate governance changes.

Arturo Bris: “Europe regulates, the USA innovates.”

His recent work includes a comprehensive study of 3’692 CEOs from 22 countries from 1991-2019, which found strong evidence that existing studies overestimate the impact of CEOs on the performance of the firms they lead, and an analysis of the outlook for globalization in the post-COVID-19 period.

At IMD, Arturo Bris has led several custom programs for organizations operating in various industries, with a particular interest in the financial sector, and has extensive worldwide consulting experience. He currently directs Boards and Risks, an executive program that allows board members to develop a best-in-class systemic risk approach in the face of geopolitical risks, social evolution, and technological progress. He also directed the flagship Advanced Strategic Management program between 2009 and 2013.

His book “The Right Place: How National Competitiveness Makes or Breaks Companies” analyzes countries’ competitive performance, the typical mistakes countries make, and the pillars necessary to build a truly competitive economy. He co-authored “Flex or Fail: The Future of Work and Pay, Sixteen Shades of Smart: How Cities Can Shape Their Own Future” in 2019, and “Blockchange!: How to Survive the Crypto Economy” in 2018.

Arturo Bris is a member of the Strategic Committee of Debiopharm Investment and the International Advisory Council of the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore as well as an academic advisor to the Blue Whale Foundation, a decentralized ecosystem enabling the self-employed to thrive by capturing a fair share of the value they create.

He also serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of CENTRUM Graduate Business School in Peru and the Supervisory Board of the Kyiv International Economic Forum. In addition, he is a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute and a research fellow at the Yale International Institute for Corporate Governance.

Before joining IMD in 2005, Arturo Bris was the Robert B & Candice J Haas Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the Yale School of Management.

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