Luís Almeida Costa holds PhD and MSc degrees in Management from INSEAD and an undergraduate degree (Licenciatura) in Economics from Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.

He is a Professor and a Vice-President of the School Council at Nova School of Business and Economics. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Alfredo de Sousa Foundation and a NED of Nova Forum. Luís Almeida Costa also teaches, as a Visiting Professor, at INSEAD, at Tias School for Business and Society (Tilburg University), and at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles). He taught for almost ten years at IMD, where he launched and was a Director of the Negotiating for Value Creation (NVC) executive program. Luís Almeida Costa has been designated the Best Teacher in several institutions where he has taught. His research, teaching and consulting focus on Negotiation and Strategy. His work has been published in several highly regarded scientific journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Business, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Organization Studies, etc. 

Luís Almeida Costa was responsible for many consulting projects and conducted hundreds of executive programs for companies and governmental agencies in several countries, such as Belgium, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. He was honored by the President of Portugal with the title of Comendador of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.

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Ingemar Dierickx holds a PhD (Business Economics) from Harvard University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.  He also holds law degrees from the Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and the Rijksuniversiteit Gent (Lic.Jur.).

He was Professor of Negotiation Analysis at INSEAD for nearly twenty-five years and subsequently joined The Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo) until 2010.  Prior to joining INSEAD, he worked at the Division of Research, Harvard Business School and with Professor Schelling (2005 Nobel laureate, Economics) at Harvard University. His research on Negotiation Analysis and into the microeconomic foundations of Strategy has been widely published in scientific journals.  He created INSEAD’s executive program on Negotiation Dynamics and was its Director for fifteen years.  At INSEAD, he received the award for Outstanding Teacher in the Elective Courses multiple times, as well as a special Lifetime Achievement Award for teaching excellence.

For more than three decades, he has advised clients in a broad range of industries including banking, insurance and reinsurance, consulting, accounting, legal services, travel, aerospace, the automobile industry, retailing, oil and gas, mining and metals, power generation, the pharmaceutical industry, telecommunications, television and entertainment, software development, commodity and specialty chemicals, as well as the public sector.  As a negotiator, he has represented the interests of high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and corporate clients.  As a trainer and coach, he has run hundreds of highly successful negotiation workshops around the world.

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