Professor Landry Signé is a world-renowned professor, extraordinary global leader, award-winning author, disruptive innovator, and pre-eminent future-oriented thinker who bridges ideas and actions, and private and public sectors to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges and maximize some of the most promising opportunities, winning over 80 prestigious awards and distinctions; with over 200 academic and professional publications; and over 1,000 keynotes, speaking and thought leadership engagements. He received the fastest reported tenure and promotion to the highest rank of full professor in the history of the U.S. universities for a scholar who started at an entry-level position in his discipline, and cumulates over 20 years of distinguished experience as Managing Director, Executive Director, Executive Chairman, Extraordinary Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Senior Fellow, among others, including in top institutions such as Thunderbird School of Global Management, the Brookings Institution, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, the World Economic Forum, the Wilson Center, Georgetown University, HEC Paris Executive Education, the United Nations, the French Senate, and the leading French multinational food retailer Casino Group. He often briefs top global leaders, including heads of state, heads of international organizations, and CEOs of global multinationals, and often briefs or testifies before the United States Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. International Trade Commission, among others.