Dr. W. Chan Kim is a world-leading strategist, Professor of Strategy, and the Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in France. He is celebrated as the co-creator of the revolutionary Blue Ocean Strategy framework. His research is globally recognized for fundamentally reshaping competitive strategy by demonstrating how organizations can achieve explosive growth and make competition irrelevant by creating new market spaces rather than fighting in existing ones.

Kim's influential work, co-authored with Renée Mauborgne, includes the over four-million-copy global bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy, recognized as one of the most iconic strategy books ever written, and Blue Ocean Shift, a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Most recently, Beyond Disruption outlines how to innovate and achieve growth without displacing industries or jobs. His body of research was honored by Harvard Business Review as one of the four leading ideas in its 100-year history.

His status as a preeminent thinker is well-established: he and his colleague were named the Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in 2019. Furthermore, his seminal Blue Ocean Strategy article was selected by Harvard Business Review in 2022 as one of the most influential and innovative articles published over the last century. His deep academic contributions have been recognized by The Journal of International Management as one of the world's most influential academic journal authors in global strategy. As an acclaimed global strategist, Kim advises several countries and multinational corporations across Europe, the U.S., and the Asia Pacific region. His work has earned him numerous accolades, including the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking. His presentations offer executives a clear, systematic methodology for achieving Blue Ocean Shift, enabling organizations to move beyond fierce competition and create sustainable, high-growth market opportunities.