Jennifer Blanke

• Lead Economist, Senior Director, Head of Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance, World Economic Forum

Master's in International Affairs, Columbia University; Master's and PhD in International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Former Senior Management Consultant, Eurogroup, Mazars Group, Paris, specializing in banking and financial market organization. With World Economic Forum: 1998-2002, Senior Programme Manager, responsible for developing the business, management, and technology section of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos; since 2002, with the Global Competitiveness Network; since 2007, Director, Senior Economist and Head, Global Competitiveness Network. Has written and lectured extensively on issues related to national competitiveness and has served as lead editor on a number of regional and topical competitiveness reports.