Francisco Veloso
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Francisco Veloso (born 1969) is a Portuguese academic. He is the dean of INSEAD and the former dean of the Imperial College Business School.
Early life and education
Francisco Veloso was born in 1969 in Lisbon, Portugal.{{cite news|last1=Wise|first1=Peter|title=Meet the dean: Francisco Veloso, Católica-Lisbon|url=https://www.ft.com/content/d5f6fe14-5135-11e3-b499-00144feabdc0|accessdate=November 14, 2017|work=Financial Times|date=December 1, 2013}} He graduated from the University of Lisbon, where he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree.{{cite web|title=Meet the dean|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/about-us/meet-the-dean/|website=Imperial College Business School|accessdate=November 14, 2017}} In 2001, he earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Veloso began his career as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, where he became a full professor in 2011. He was a professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics in 2011, and he was the dean from 2012 to August 2017, when he became the dean of the Imperial College Business School.{{cite web|title=Imperial Gets New Dean From Lisbon|url=https://poetsandquants.com/2017/03/14/imperial-gets-new-dean-lisbon/|website=Poets & Quants|accessdate=November 14, 2017|date=March 14, 2017}}
Veloso has published research on the car industry and start-up spin-offs.
On 4 April 2023, INSEAD announced that they will be appointing Veloso as their new Dean, starting from 1 September 2023.{{cite web|title=INSEAD appoints Professor Francisco Veloso as its new Dean|url=https://www.insead.edu/newsroom/2023-insead-appoints-professor-francisco-veloso-as-its-new-dean|website=INSEAD|accessdate=April 6, 2023|date=April 4, 2023}}
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