Hellmut joined INSEAD’s faculty in Fontainebleau, France, in 1981 after a career in marketing and investment banking over 11 years. Up to the fall of 2006, Hellmut was the Dean of INSEAD’s fast-growing Asia Campus in Singapore. After 28 years of service for INSEAD, he became Emeritus Professor of International Management. He was also appointed Distinguished Professor of Management and European Chair for Global Governance and Sino-European Business Relations, and consequently Dean at CEIBS in Shanghai, China, from 2009-2015. Now back in Singapore, he continues to work in the area of international management with a special focus on Asia and the competition between emerging countries’ firms and traditional multinationals. Hellmut 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, a visiting professor at Boston University, and visiting scholar at Harvard University.
