Edward Krubasik worked as partner and director at McKinsey & Co. Inc. for over twenty years, where he was in charge of McKinsey's global Innovation and Technology Management Practice, and the European Electronics, Telecommunications and Aerospace Sector. He was a member of the Corporate Executive Committee for Siemens AG with special responsibility for the company's industry and transport business sector, and a member of the European Commission's High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment. He is chairman of the Commission on Industry, Technology and Innovation of the Bavarian Economic Council. Professor Krubasik studied physics at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Karlsruhe, Germany. After obtaining a doctorate in nuclear physics and following research projects at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, he completed an M.B.A. program at the European Institute for Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France.