On Thursday 28th September 2023, the Board of Trustees of the Foundation unanimously elected Emiliano Duch as the new President of the Board. Emiliano is one of the leading global experts in cluster based economic development is well known to many in our field He retired from the World Bank in April 2023, where he was the Global Lead in Private Sector Development for ten years. Prior to joining the Bank, he was in the IESE Business School, as Director of its Competitiveness Summer School programme and also Coordinated the European Union’s Cluster Excellence Initiative.
Emiliano was the founder of The Cluster Competitiveness Group and the founding chairman of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI). He has a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and an MPA and an MBA from Harvard University.
