Renee A. Mauborgne

Renée Mauborgne is the Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and The INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD. Mauborgne served on President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the President’s two terms. She is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Her book Blue Ocean Strategy, co-authored with W. Chan Kim, has sold over 4 million copies and is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. She is also a co-author of the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, Blue Ocean Shift.

Mauborgne is ranked #1 most influential management thinker in the world in the Thinkers50 listing of the World’s Top Management Gurus. She is the first woman ever to top the ranking. She was named among the world's top 5 best business school professors in 2013 by MBA Rankings. Mauborgne received the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking 2008.