Xavier Castañer (PhD, Minnesota) is Full Professor of Strategy at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne. His work has been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Strategic Management, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Cultural Economics. At present he serves in the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal, among others. Professor Xavier Castañer is the new president of the IFSAM.