Tomas Casas i Klett 教授

Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett is a visiting professor at universities around the world including in Shanghai and Beijing and has a permanent faculty position at the University of St. Gallen’s in Switzerland where he is Director of the China Competence Centre. He is an accomplished researcher, teacher and the founder and director of the global Elite Quality Index (EQx).

Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett teaches excellence to students and executives from across the world. Courses include International Entrepreneurship, International Business, Disruption and Innovation, Global Trends, Geopolitics, Economic Development, Elites and Institutions, Cross-Cultural Management and Philosophy of Science (PhD). Also teaches Doing Business in Japan, Doing Business in Europe and Doing Business in Russia/Eurasia. China-themed courses include: Doing Business in China, China’s Political Economy, China’s Soft and Hard Power.

Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett obtains several global professional experiences, including consulting in the United States, “salaryman” in a leading Japanese kaisha in Tokyo, and entrepreneur in China's IT trenches. Has developed a variety of high-impact executive education programmes for top executives. Approach revolves around sustainable strategic transformation towards value creation. Aim is tangible and action-oriented take-aways for participants and their organizations. Member of boards, World Economic Forum member, Global Future Councils (2016-2018) and Forum Expert Network member. Various board memberships.

Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett research interests include Innovative theoretical research on economic development supported by empirical research on elites in economics, including comparative instruments used by policy-makers and having an important impact on the public discourse of Germany, Singapore, Norway, Bangladesh and many other nations. He also works on free-trade agreements (FTAs), entrepreneurship and digitalization, top performance teams (incl. China team myths), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), behavioral economics, narrative economics, cross-cultural management and geopolitics.

Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett has been published in several books, including Japan’s challenges and potential; Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship (co-authored with J.P. Lehmann and J. Haffner); an edited work titled The Life of Russian Business: (Re)cognizing, (Re)activating and (Re)configuring Institutions. Annual Elite Quality Report (EQx2025) launched to great acclaim: global index ranks countries in terms of the value creation/extraction business models of their elites on aggregate. Authored a theoretical book Towards an Elite Quality of Economic Development (De Gruyter, 2025).