Arnoud De Meyer

Arnoud de Meyer is Akzo Nobel Fellow in Strategic Management and Professor of Technology Management at INSEAD. Formerly Associate Dean for the MBA programme, Executive Education at INSEAD, Director General of the INSEAD Euro-Asia centre and Dean of the Asia Campus, he is currently Deputy Dean of INSEAD, in charge of Operations External Relations.

Arnoud De Meyer is an electro-technical engineer and has a Doctoral Degree in Management from the State University of Ghent (Belgium). He studied as a visiting scholar at the AP Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). He was visiting professor at Keio Business School (Tokyo), Waseda University (Tokyo) and the University of Kiel (Germany). He taught also at the University of Gent (Belgium).

Professor De Meyer's main research interests are in manufacturing and technology strategy, the implementation of new manufacturing technologies, and the management of R&D. From the beginning of his academic career he invested in understanding how innovation can be managed more effectively. Over the last 20 years he published widely on this topic in academic journals as well as practitioner oriented outlets.

Recently he also published several papers and articles on project management under conditions of high uncertainty. These concepts are of high importance for the management of development and research activities. He has also published on E-government.  Currently he prepares a book on the implementation of innovation management in Asia.

While being an academic Professor De Meyer has also applied some of the concepts he developed in the business world. He has acted as a consultant for a number of medium-sized and large companies throughout Europe and Asia. And he has helped several entrepreneurs in the startup of new business ventures. He is outside director of three hi-tech companies, of which one is in the production of custom made modems.