Prof. Tomas Casas i Klett

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Tomas Casas i Klett is a professor at the University of St. Gallen’s Research Institute for International Management (FIM) and Director the China Competence Center. He is also the Index Director and co-author with Prof. Guido Cozzi of the Elite Quality Index (EQx2022), a global political economy index, and collaborates with the St. Gallen Symposium on its sub-index, the NextGen Value Creation Barometer. He frequently leads international executive education programmes and courses at leading business schools in China, including Tsinghua SEM, Fudan University FDSM, and Shanghai Jiaotong University Antai. Prof. Casas i Klett graduated with honors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining in parallel a Japanese language degree from Sophia University in Tokyo. He later earned a Master of Science in Management degree at Fudan University in Shanghai and a PhD in economics at the University of St. Gallen.