Emiliano Duch

Emiliano Duch is the President and Founder of the firm COMPETITIVENESS, an international consulting group, specialising in 'Building Competitive Business Clusters,' which he founded with the support of leading business leaders such as Michael Porter and Alessandro Benetton.

As CEO of COMPETITIVENESS, he has acted as an advisor to hundreds of clusters, providing them with strategic advice and specialised e-services through projects sponsored by local organisations and governments, as well as multilateral institutions such as the European Commission, IADB and the UN. The group has carried out more than 100 consultancy projects in competitiveness reinforcement, at cluster level in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Emiliano is one of the founders and a former President of The Competitive Institute (TCI) and is still active in the Board of Advisors and in the on-going events of TCI. He is also the Director of the Barcelona Clusters Summer School, organised by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, in early July, every year. This is a programme that offers courses covering everything from the conceptual framework for clusters to best practice examples of cluster development policies and cluster strategy and management.

Emiliano has a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Harvard University, an also an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Originally, he was an architect from UPC in Barcelona.