Jac Geurts
Tilburg University
Dr. Geurts is a professor of policy and strategy in the Department of Organizational Sciences at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands. He also teaches at the TIAS Business School, University of Tilburg. Geurts joined the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University as a Visiting Scholar in 2007. Geurts is one of the world’s leading experts on the use of gaming/simulations for strategy and policy.
He has served as director IVA, the Tilburg Institute for Social Research, and is a former president of the International Simulation and Gaming Association. He has consulted on strategic issues to governments, private companies and not-for-profit organizations in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Geurts received his PhD in sociology from Radboud University Nijmegen. He has taught methods of policy analysis at Radboud University and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Michigan. For the period 1987-1991, Dr. Geurts worked with Philips International, Eindhoven, as an innovation management consultant for the department of corporate organization and efficiency’s innovation management consulting team. With Dick Duke, he authored the highly regarded Policy Games for Strategic Management in 2005