Participantes

José F. P. dos Santos

Professor

Professor José F. P. dos Santos started an academic career in the early seventies, but he moved into the managerial world a couple of years later. His twenty-year career as an executive included almost all forms of international business and international management from licensing agreements, joint ventures, and cross border M&A, to the top management of a multinational corporation. When Joe retired from his career as an executive in 1994 he had had for ten years the position of Managing Director of an Italian multinational corporation.

Since 1995, Professor Santos devoted himself again to an academic career, the dream of his youth. He keeps a very international approach to his academic life as Visiting Professor of International Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (where he spends about half of his time), but he also lectures as Guest or Visiting Professor in Portugal, Italy, and Slovenia, and presents in conferences around the world. Professor Santos researches in the area of the multinational organization, and has focused on innovation, knowledge management, global customer management, and the impact of e-business. The book "From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy", co-authored by Yves Doz, Joe Santos and Peter Williamson, was published in November 2001 by Harvard Business School Press.

Professor Santos was born in Porto, Portugal. He speaks four languages and has traveled extensively since his youth. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering by the University of Porto and an MSc, with Distinction, in Management Science by the University of London.