Thomas Andersson

is President of the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED). Further, he is President of Jönköping University and also vice president of the Italian-based International Network of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (INSME). Among other assignments, he serves on the international advisory committee of the Competitiveness Institute and on the international advisory board of the World Knowledge Forum, Korea.

In recent years, Thomas Andersson was senior advisor to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), main secretary of the Ministers’ of Finance project on the Nordic Countries and the New Economy, under the aegis of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and member of the board of Fora, a think-tank at the Danish Ministry of Industry, and of the international advisory board of Umeå School of Business and Economics.

From 1996 to 2001, Thomas Andersson was deputy director for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD. Three divisions of that directorate fell under his responsibility - the Industry Division, the Division for Economic and Statistical Analysis and the Division for Transport. He also coordinated the technology part of the OECD Jobs Study, the OECD Growth Study andwork with the World Bank on building knowledge-based economies.

Prior to the OECD, Thomas Andersson was assistant under-secretary and head of the structural policy secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Commerce. During these years, he represented Sweden in the European Commission's meetings for director generals for industry. Previously he headed the international research programme of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm (IUI). He has also been a member of the Industrial Research Group of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and has served on the board of several private companies, including AssiDomän Frövi.

Thomas Andersson was appointed associate professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993 and full professor in International Economics and Industrial Organisation, affiliated with Jönköping International Business School, in 2004. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, the East-West Center, and the University of Sao Paulo.