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Dr. Alain Verbeke holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He was previously the director of the MBA programme, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels (VUB). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, the University of Toronto and the Université Catholique de Louvain as well as an Associate Fellow of Templeton College (University of Oxford). He is presently an Academic Associate of the Centre for International Business and Management, Judge Business School (University of Cambridge), and Visiting Chair in Strategy and International Business at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam). He is also associated with Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Market Studies (SIEMS), as an affiliated researcher. Dr. Verbeke is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Dr. Verbeke has been a member of the European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA), the highest advisory body to the European Commission on the future of European scientific and innovation policy and has served on the board of directors of various educational and scientific institutions. He is a leading thinker on complex project evaluation, the strategic management of multinational networks and the restructuring of complex organizations.

Dr. Verbeke has personally directed close to 100 strategic management projects in the above areas. His academic research agenda consists of revisiting, rethinking and augmenting the core paradigms in strategic management and international business, especially internalization theory, which is a joint transaction cost  economics and resource based view of the firm.  He has particular expertise in the management of headquarters - subsidiary relationships in large multinational enterprises.

Dr. Verbeke has authored or edited 23 books and more than 200 refereed publications, including several articles in the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies.