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 across the private and public sectors to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges and maximize some of its most promising opportunities. He received the fastest reported tenure and promotion to the highest rank of full professor in the history of U.S. universities for a scholar who started at an entry-level position in his discipline, and has accumulated over 20 years of distinguished experience at 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 frequently briefs top global leaders 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.
Professor Landry Signé has served as Managing Director, and now Executive Director and tenured full Professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Washington, DC, as well as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Regional Action Group for Africa and the World Economic Forum Friends of the African Continental Free Trade Area, Founding Co-Director of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative, Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Africa House (Amplifying Africa in Davos & Beyond), Lead of the Digital Access and Divides Working Group at New America’s Digital Futures Task Force, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, and member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Technology Policy, among others.