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Joan E. Ricart is Professor Emeritus in the Strategic Management Department. He is Fellow of the SMS and EURAM. At ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, he has been Director of the Doctoral Program (1995-2006), Associate Dean for Research (2001-2006), Associate Director for Faculty and Research (2006-2014) and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department (1993-2016).

He is also Vice-President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He was the founding President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and President of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He was the Academic Director of the EIASM and Member of the Research Committee of the EFMD.

Professor Ricart holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics, Northwestern University, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

He has a wide and recognized international experience as lecturer. Before joining ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, he was Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and at Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona. Throughout his career, he has been Visiting Professor in many Business Schools around the world: IPADE (Mexico); IAE (Argentina); IDE (Ecuador); UNISA (South Africa)… He has also supervised several doctoral theses and research projects.

He has published several books and articles in leading journals as Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Econometric or Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is Co-Academic Director of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cities in Motion and Academic Director of the UN Center of Excellence of PPP for Cities. His current work focuses on cities, business models and offshoring.