Chad Evans

Chad, a recognized expert in global competitiveness, currently leads several core initiatives:

The Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative (TLSI) engages more than 50 Fortune 500 chief technology officers to understand technology investment drivers and strategies at the heart of U.S. prosperity. Led by CTOs of GE, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Deere & Co., the TLSI is working to establish a new paradigm for collaberation between the public and private sectors to optimize America's investments in research, talent, and technology.

The Global Innovation Initiative facilitates CEO-level dialogues with key global partners and new-to-the-world business partnerships. In 2005, Chad led the first US-EU Innovation Summit and US-Japan Innovation Summit. In 2007, he developed and managed the first US-Brazil Innovation Summit. In 2008, he created a first-ever series of US-Brazil Innovation Learning laboratories - C-suite, multi-sector, multi-stakeholder, multi-day workshops across both countries aimed at catalyzing mutually beneficial business and research partnerships between the Western hemisphere's two largest economies. And over the past three years, he has hosted more than a dozen US-Brazil Innovation Learning Labs. In September 2010, he led the Council's 2nd US-Brazil Innovation Summit with the Chairman and CEO of Deere & Co. and the President of Georgetown University.

Chad also led the creative team responsible for the 2004 National Innovation Initiative Summit and Innovate America - the nation's first private-sector innovation agenda, chaired by the Chairman and CEO of IBM, and the President of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In addition to managing the Council's 20th Anniversary in 1996, since 1996, Chad has spearheaded, along with Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, the Council's flagship publication, The Competitiveness Index - a quantitative benchmarking exercise documenting U.S. economic performance. And this year, Chad has launched a new Economic Advisory Committee - working with more than 40 Fortune 500 chief economists, led by the chief economist of FedEx - to identify the 21st century's next big productivity drivers.