Nenad Pacek is one of the world's leading authorities on economic and business issues that concern multinational corporations seeking faster growth internationally. He advises business leaders on outlooks for virtually all countries around the world helps companies build strategies for sustainable growth internationally. He is Founder and President of Global Success Advisors (global business and economic advisory), co-founder and co-CEO of the CEEMEA Business Group corporate service (advisory for regional executives running Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Founder and President of the MEA Business Group (advisory for regional executives running Middle East and Africa).

He previously worked for 16 years at The Economist Group as a vice president of the Economist Intelligence Unit where he directed the Corporate Network programmes in CEEMEA and led the Economist Conferences' global Government Roundtables initiatives. He has chaired senior business-to-government dialogues involving heads of state and senior business leaders across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is also a guest faculty at Duke Corporate Education and a number of corporate universities/learning programs.

Nenad is the author of "The Future of Business in Emerging Markets: Growth Strategies for Growth Markets" (2012), "The Global Economy" (2012), and the lead author of "Emerging Markets: Lessons for Business Success and Outlook for Different Markets" (2003, 2007). He is also a contributor to the book "The Future of Money" (2010). Virgin Books selected him among the 40 leading opinion-formers in economics and business. He regularly featured on international television and print media.

He is a sought-after public speaker delivering about 100 presentations or speeches per year at global and regional executive level. In his career, Nenad has performed more than 1,000 presentations/speeches and a similar number of advisory sessions for his past and present clients at regional and global level. He uses real experiences of companies to illustrate his points and to open the eyes of those entering, or expanding, their emerging markets presence.

Over recent years, his long list of clients have included Adobe, Bristol Myers Squibb, Canon, Danone, Dow Corning, Du Pont, Eaton Emerson, Fidelity, Firmenich Fujitsu, HP, Heineken Henkel Honeywell Aerospace, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Kraft, Medronic, Microsoft, Oracle, Philip Morris, Nestlé, PWC, P&G, Red Bull, SC Johnson, Sony, SKF, Tetra Pak, Visa, Western Union, Wyeth, and many others.

Sample speaking topics include:

"On behalf of Honeywell Aerospace I would like to thank you for sharing your expertise on emerging market strategies and managing through challenging times. This was a wonderful educational experience for our leaders. Your breadth of knowledge and willingness to engage in honest dialogue about difficult issues provide us with the most thought-provoking session we had in the history of our Executive Forum. I was so impressed with that I forwarded your material to David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell."
Rob Gillette, CEO Honeywell Aerospace