Hellmut Schutte

Vice-President and Dean
China Europe International Business School, Shanghai

Professor Hellmut Schütte was appointed Vice-President and Dean of CEIBS at the beginning of 2013 after having served as Distinguished Professor of Management and holding the European Chair for Global Governance and Sino- European Business Relations for three years.

CEIBS is the leading business school in China that is jointly owned by the Government of China and the European Commission. He is particularly interested in the competition and cooperation between emerging market corporations and established Western/ Japanese multinationals.

He is also Emeritus Professor of International Management at INSEAD whose faculty he joined in Fontainebleau, France, in 1981 after a career in the areas of marketing and investment banking. Professor Schütte studied economics and business administration in Germany and obtained his doctorate from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

He was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, visiting professor at Boston University, and visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Until autumn 2006, Hellmut was the Dean of INSEAD’s fast growing Asia Campus located in Singapore.

China is Hellmut’s tenth country in which he has lived and worked. He has taught in seminars in another 40 countries all over the world. He is a well-known speaker in conferences and business meetings and is actively involved in various executive programmes, board and advisory roles and consulting assignments. Among others, he is an Executive Director and Partner of BAF Spectrum, a business angel firm that invests in young enterprises.

Hellmut is a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum in Davos and other places in the world and the author of many articles and nine books, among them the best-seller ‘Strategies for Asia Pacific’.

Hellmut is a permanent resident of Singapore, and a devoted offshore yachtsman.

Areas of Interest

- Strategies and organisations in Asia