{"id":48580,"date":"2026-02-16T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imhbusiness.com\/?post_type=speakers&p=48580"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:45:51","slug":"ludo-van-der-heyden","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/www.imhbusiness.com\/en\/speakers\/ludo-van-der-heyden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludo Van der Heyden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ludo Van der Heyden has been Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD since 1988. He is the INSEAD Chaired Professor in Corporate Governance since October 2010, Emeritus in September 2018.
\nHe was the founding Academic Director of INSEAD’s Corporate Governance Centre and, with colleagues, co-founded the International Directors Programme, the Modern Governance in Banking, and the Value Creation for Owners and Directors programmes. He directed the Advanced Management Program (2000-08), the INSEAD Zentrum Leipzig (1994-99), was INSEAD co-Dean (1990-95), first PhD Director and Associate Dean for R&D (1989-90). Before joining INSEAD, Ludo Van der Heyden was on the faculty of the School of Organization and Management at Yale University (1980-1988) and of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1978-80). He holds an Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics from the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain (1974) and a Ph.D. Degree in Administrative Sciences from Yale University (1979). He is the first Honorary Professor of the recreated Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL), from which he also received the Distinguished Service Medal. He co-created in 2017 the first educational programme of the Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy (UCGA) which he regularly contributes to. He was a Distinguished Scholar at IMD (2021-2024). He has published in many journals such as Harvard Business Review, Strategy & Business, International Commerce Review, The European Finance Review, Family Business Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and the International Journal of Game Theory. He published two reports entitled The Real Impact of Digital (2016) and Directing Digitalisation. Guidelines for Boards and Executives (2017). His latest publication is the book Value Creation for Owners and Directors (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), co-authored with Massimo Massa and Kai Teraporevala. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine (2019-2021 & 2023-\u2026), the largest energy company of Ukraine. He is Chairman of the Board of Seisquare, a software company for estimating natural resource reserves. He was a Board member – and then Advisory Board member – of Bencis Capital Partners. He is a co-founder of the Association des Plantes Aromatiques et M\u00e9dicinales in Milly-la-For\u00eat. He is Honorary Vice-President of the Association P\u00f4le Sud Paris which fosters economic development in the South Paris area. He became a Municipal Counsellor in Rougemont (CH) in Fall 2023. The King of Belgium appointed him Officer of the Order of Leopold in 1996.
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