Jim Ellert is Emeritus Professor of Finance and Strategy and former Dean of Faculty at IMD, Lausanne. He has more than 50 years of experience in executive education, having taught finance, economics, industrial organization, and statistics at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Chicago, and Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, before joining the faculty of IMD in 1981.

His current areas of research interest are financial management, valuation of companies, implementing value-based management strategies, financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and international capital market developments. He is the author of books, academic articles, presentations, and cases on these subjects.

His viewpoints and activities have been profiled in Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times of London, Handelsblatt, International Business, Le Monde, L’Expansion, New China Post, the Staights Times, and other managerially oriented publications

Professor Ellert has been active as a consultant and educator to a wide range of companies and public institutions in more than 40 countries within North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, South Africa, Kenya, the Far East, and Australia. He has served on the boards of several organizations in Europe and North America.