Freek Vermeulen
Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management London Business School
Freek Vermeulen is an expert on the topic of growth, examining issues such as strategic innovation, stimulating organic growth, international strategy, and the role of acquisitions and alliances. At London Business School, Freek teaches on the MBA and Executive levels. He has designed and taught some of the School’s most successful courses such as “Strategies for Growth” and “Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances” which, in combination, earned him the School’s “Best Teacher Award”. In addition, in 2008, he was announced as the first ever recipient of London Business School’s “Excellence in Teaching Award”. Over the past years, Freek has acted as an advisor and worked on executive programmes for companies such as Sara Lee, KPMG and PwC. In 2009, the Financial Times wrote about Freek: “The London Business School associate professor is a rising star and his pithy observations are both accessible and authoritative”. Freek’s research on strategies for growth has been published extensively in highly reputed academic journals. As a result, he received the prestigious “Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award”. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Organization and the European Management Review. He is a member of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management and served on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Management Journal.