David Bach officially took office as IMD President on 1 September 2024, four months after being unanimously appointed by the IMD Supervisory Board, based on the recommendation of a search committee. He said: “I am incredibly excited to assume the IMD presidency at this time because we always have been, and – under my leadership – are determined to continue to be a place of consequence.
“IMD is one of the most vibrant meeting places for cutting-edge management practice and rigorous yet applied thought leadership anywhere.”
An award-winning writer and teacher, Bach joined IMD in 2020 as Professor of Strategy and Political Economy and Dean of Innovation and Programs, after previously serving as Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Management.
As President, Bach is looking to accelerate ongoing efforts to enhance the school’s global reach and impact through programmatic and pedagogical innovation. “My goal is to build on IMD’s tremendous legacy to broaden and deepen our impact. In fact, I want us to become the world’s most impactful business school,” said the new President, who earned an undergraduate degree from Yale and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bach is also one of the main architects of the Global Network for Advanced Management, an alliance of 32 top global business schools from five continents, of which IMD has been a member since 2012. His course, “The End of Globalization?”, received the 2018 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute.
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