Gilbert J. B. Probst

Gilbert Probst is Managing Director, Leadership Office and Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Global Leadership Fellows Program at the World Economic Forum. He is also a full professor for organizational behavior and management and Co-director of the Executive-MBA program at HEC, University of Geneva, Switzerland. PhD as well as habilitation in business administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He 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 was 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.