Associate Professor of Management Practice

Department of Business Policy

Biography

Kai-Alexander Schlevogt serves as Associate Professor of Management Practice at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Department of Business Policy, where he specializes in global leadership and growth strategies in emerging markets, especially Asia. He is a Program Director of the Nestlé Global Leadership Program, delivered in association with London Business School. Besides, Kai-Alexander writes the Asia Column of Manager Magazin.de, a leading German business magazine. He also serves as the National Correspondent of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) in China (the leading scholarly association of management professors in Europe). Besides, Kai-Alexander is an active member of the Academy of Management and Academy of International Business. Moreover, he holds an appointment as the Country Representative for Germany and China of the Academy of Management's International Division. He has also been invited to become a Member of Duke Corporate Education (CE)’s Global Learning Resource Network.

In 2005, Kai-Alexander was elected Fellow of the McKinsey & Co. Global Institute (MGI), San Francisco and Shanghai, responsible for developing a new MGI research agenda in Asia focused on economics, public policy and management. Before being awarded the MGI Fellowship, Kai-Alexander founded the Schlevogt Business School, the first school in Germany focusing on European-Chinese economic relationships, and served as its President. He was also appointed as the first regular foreign professor in the history of Peking University. Kai-Alexander served as a professor of strategic management and international business and senior research fellow at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He was also a senior faculty member at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), a joint venture of the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. Besides, he was elected as a member of the editorial board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, the official journal of the Asia Academy of Management (the leading association of management scholars and practitioners in Asia-Pacific).

He served as Visiting Professor at the Henley Management College (UK). Besides, he held two appointments at Harvard University, one as Associate at the Harvard Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Asia Center, another as Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School (HBS). Before joining Harvard, he worked as a strategic management consultant for McKinsey & Co. in Greater China. His consulting experience includes helping the Malaysian Prime Minister to develop an "electronic government" and other flagship applications for the Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC). He also advised some of the largest Chinese and multinational companies throughout Asia on how to develop growth strategies and improve their organizational effectiveness in industries such as construction materials, chemicals, automobile parts, and finance.

Prior to this China assignment, Kai-Alexander pioneered in another emerging market. He was Country Manager for "Colonia-Victoire" (now: AXA Colonia), a leading German- European financial services company, in the former Soviet Union, managing the relationship with the Russian partner (Rossiya Insurance), subsequently setting up a joint venture and introducing new insurance products to the Russian market. He also functioned as Representative of the Association of German Insurers in the former Soviet Union, advising the Russian Government on insurance legislation.

Kai-Alexander has been listed in the "Who's Who in the World" and the German “Who’s Who”. A leading expert in international strategic and economic studies (with a special focus on emerging markets) and Chinese businesses and entrepreneurship, he has written three books and over one hundred journal articles, in publications such as Academy of Management Executive, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Studies, Thunderbird International Business Review, European Business Forum, Journal of Management Consulting, Journal of Asia Pacific Management, Asia Pacific Business Review, Asian Business, Far Eastern Economic Review, China Business Review, and China Economic Review. His most recent book is “The Art of Chinese Management” (Oxford University Press). He is a regular TV commentator for Channel NewsAsia.

He frequently runs degree courses and executive education programs for top leaders and government officials throughout Asia and the rest of the world, such as the Nestlé Global Leadership Program. Bosch Global Leadership Development Program, Panasonic Asian Management Seminar and the Asia-Pacific Executive MBA program of NUS (teaching both in Chinese and English).

Kai-Alexander pursued postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Studies from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Christ Church (College), where he received the Economic Research and Development Council (ESRC) Award. In addition, he earned two Master degrees in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). He also holds diplomas and certificates in International Enterprise Management from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing and Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, as well as a Bachelor (Honors) degree in Management from the London School of Economics. He also completed the McKinsey Master of Business Administration (MMBA) program. A German national, he speaks fluent Chinese (teaching senior executives in Mandarin) and seven other world languages. Kai-Alexander lives in Singapore.

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Last updated: 2 January 2008