Chris Gentle

Dr. Chris Gentle is an advisor to The Conference Board and teaches at London Business School and Hult International Business School.  He is also NED at Reach South and Chair of the Finance Committee.

Chris has over 20 years international experience in strategy consulting working at board level in over 35 countries around the world.  He spent 17 years in Big 4 firms working for F500 clients and founding research and policy teams at two of the Firms – KPMG and Deloitte where he was Managing Partner, Research. He has also held roles at WPP and the European Commission.  He has advised both the World Trade Organisation and United Nations on trade and economic issues.  He works at the highest levels of influencing including the UK Prime Minister, President European Commission and WEF in Davos.  He is also the author of two books one of which – After Liberalisation: Europe in the Global Economy of the C21st - has its 20^th anniversary of publishing this year.