Michael G. Jacobides

Michael G. Jacobides

Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy

London Business School, United Kingdom

Michael G Jacobides, Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School, is ranked as Thinkers50, a top 50 management thinker worldwide. An Academic Advisor to BCG’s Henderson Institute and Lead Advisor of Evolution Ltd, he advises disruptive start-ups and Fortune500 firms alike on how to manage their digital ecosystems and adjust to AI. His research on industry transformation, value migration and business ecosystems has won awards by the Sloan Foundation, the StrategieForum and CMR. A co-author of WEF’s White Paper on Digital Platforms & Ecosystems and member of the WEF AI Governance Alliance, he has been on its Global Agenda Council and presented in Davos. He has worked on policy as a Visiting Scholar at the New York Fed, member of High Level groups for the EU and the Industry Parliament Trust in the UK and serves as the Chief Digital Economy Advisor (pro bono) at the Hellenic Competition Commission. A frequent keynote speaker in events from TEDx to the Global Drucker Forum he works on thought leadership with consultants such as McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Keystone and ECSi, and on strategy with corporates such as SAP, MAF, Haier, Huawei, Spotify, Philips, Globe Telecom, MasMovil, Vodafone, Nokia, Enel, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, BaltCap, Airbus, DeBeers, Lavazza, Burberry, Mowi, MerckSerono, SpringStudio, Majid Al Futtaim and the NHS. He has visited Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, Imperial, Bocconi and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD, after studying at Athens, Cambridge and Stanford. His work appears in the top academic journals including ICC where he is a co-Editor, as well as HBR, Forbes, Fortune and the FT. He is Strategy Advisor (pro bono) of ELLET, Greece’s key NGO on environmental & cultural preservation, and writes in Kathimerini.