Nenad Pacek is a leading authority on Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa advising companies on building successful strategies for these and other emerging markets. His reputation has been developed from over a decade advising the world’s largest corporations both as a writer and presenter of business intelligence. Based in Vienna, he works for the Economist Group as a director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, directing the Corporate Network programmes in CEEMEA. He also heads Economist Conferences’ global Government Roundtables business. He chairs senior business-to-government dialogues with some twenty heads of state every year across Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Nenad has co-written two books with colleague, Daniel Thorniley, on emerging markets (1st edition 2004, 2nd edition 2007 published by Profile Books Ltd / Economist Books). He also lectures on emerging markets at the University of Vienna and at the ESSEC MBA programme in Paris and is regularly featured on international television and print media.

Nenad was educated in Austria and is a graduate in Economics and Business from the University of Vienna.