Chad Evans

A recognized expert in global competitiveness and innovation, Chad leads several core initiatives at the Council on Competitiveness:

The Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative (TLSI) engages more than 50 Fortune 500 chief technology officers – led by the CTOs of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, GE, and Deere & Co. – to understand technology investment drivers and strategies at the heart of US prosperity.

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 executed the first US-Brazil Innovation Summit. In 2008, he pioneered the US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratories –13 C-suite workshops to spark business and research partnerships between the Western hemisphere’s two largest economies. In 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 – and, that formed the foundation for the path-breaking, bi-partisan "America Competes Act".

Since 1996, Chad has produced, along with Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, the Council's flagship publication, The Competitiveness Index – a quantitative benchmarking of US economic performance. Chad has also 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 productivity drivers.

Chad co-chairs President Obama and President Rousseff's US-Brazil Joint Commission on Science & Technology Innovation Working Group. He is a 2007 US German Marshall Fund Fellow. Chad holds a MS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, an Honors concentration in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown's Landegger Program, and a BA in International Affairs from Emory University. He is Treasurer for the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, and he sits on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Industry Advisory Council and the World Economic Forum’s Advisory Board on Russian Competitiveness. He has served on the Georgetown University MSFS Admissions Committee.