Speaker Bio
Jacques Bughin, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Jacques Bughin is a Partner at the Brussels office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining by end 1992, he has worked for various offices, mostly on projects related to media, telecom and technology. Dr Bughin has co- authored many McKinsey Quarterly articles, including: “An New Era of European Commercial Television”. He is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences on media issues and has a master degree in economics from the University of Namur (Belgium) and University of Pennsylvania (US) with summa cum laude. He also holds doctoral degrees in economics and in operation research. He has lectured at many universities, including Toronto, London and Brussels. He has published about 30 articles in leading international academic journals such as Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Industrial Economics, or European Economic Review. He co-authored a book entitled “Managing Media Companies: Harnessing creativity” (with A. Arris), Wiley, forthcoming 2005. He is also a fellow of the ECARES, a thinkthank on economic policy in Belgium; and a fellow of the Applied Economics of the KUL University, and co-leads the Advisory Board on media management at INSEAD.