Anil Gaba is the ORPAR Chaired Professor of Risk Management and Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. He is also the Academic Director of Centre on Decision Making and Risk Analysis at INSEAD. He was Dean of Faculty INSEAD in 2006-2009, and Dean of Faculty and Research INSEAD Asia Campus in 2002-2006. He was part of the pioneer faculty group from the Europe Campus for the establishment of the INSEAD Asia Campus in Singapore.

His research is in the area of assessment and use of subjective information, and analysis of decisions under risk and uncertainty. His research has appeared in several academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science, International Journal of Forecasting, and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. He is a co-author (with S. Makridakis and R. Hogarth) of a book Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work For You.

Dr. Thomas Mannarelli joined the Organisational Behaviour area at INSEAD in 1997 and specializes in issues related to creativity, innovation and leadership in organizations. He has instructed, consulted, conducted seminars and directed executive education programmes with leading international companies and government agencies representing a wide range of industries. Some of the companies he has worked with include Standard Chartered Bank, Siam Cement Group, Glaxo-Smith Kline, DKSH, Shell, Nissan, ABN-AMRO, Philip Morris, UGS, Etisalat, Pernod-Ricard, Pictet, Umicore, Visa, Swire, Singtel, Mubadala, Adidas, Publicis, IBM, and the Chartered Accountants of Ireland. He has teaching and consulting experience around the world having worked in countries as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Ireland, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Vietnam, France, Indonesia, United States, and China.

His research focuses on the different facets of creativity that either facilitate or hinder creative behaviour in organizations. He also studies individual differences (e.g., personalities, motivations, attitudes) and their relationships to physical environments and he has also researched the effects of process and group size on team decision-making and creativity. His work has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as practitioneroriented outlets such as the Financial Times.

Professor Mannarelli obtained his PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a B.S. in Business Administration from Indiana University. He has also held visiting faculty positions at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in China and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. In addition to an active role in executive education at INSEAD he is also a regular lecturer in the MBA programme. His courses have covered a wide range or behavioural management topics including leadership, creativity, team-building, communication, influence, negotiations, decision-making, careers, work-life balance, and managing change. He teaches regularly at each of INSEAD’s campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, and is presently based in Singapore.

Daniel Simonovich is Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, who focuses on strategy development, strategy execution, and strategic innovation. He also taught and gave lectures at HEC Paris, Harvard Business School, ESB Business School (where he was dean and university vice president), the Technical University of Munich, the University of Armed Forces in Munich, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to academia, he pursued a strategy consulting career at Booz, Allen & Hamilton and CSC Index.

He is a recipient of the Dominique Héau award for inspiring educational excellence. He also received INSEAD’s outstanding teaching and programme direction awards in Executive Education, as well as the Dean’s commendation for excellence in MBA teaching. He also received the Steinbeis and Euro-FH best teaching awards. Crossing business discipline boundaries, he developed distance-learning study material in the areas of strategy, leadership, organisation, quantitative methods and information systems. He published books in the area of organisation.

Daniel has consulted and/or provided executive education training for organisations from a range of industries including: Airbus, Allen & Overy, Avolon, Atos, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Bank Gutmann, Bata, CITC Saudi Arabia, Daimler, Danone, Deutsche Telekom, Innovation Fund Denmark, Deutsche Bahn, EADS, Fein, Ferrero, Heidelberg, HDFC Life, Jardine Matheson, Johnson & Johnson, Keppel, LBBW Bank, Limagrain, Mann+Hummel, MLP, Moscow Stock Exchange, MTR Hong Kong, Novartis, PPT Thailand, Qatar Petroleum, Roche Diagnostics, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, RWE, Vesuvius, Walter AG, Witzenmann and Zurich Insurance.

Daniel earned his MBA from INSEAD and graduate degrees in computer science and business from the University of Cambridge, the Ecole Centrale Paris and the University of Hamburg. Daniel holds a doctorate from EBS University in Germany. He won scholarships from the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung) and the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation.

Andy Yap is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. Professor Yap holds a PhD and MPhil in Management from Columbia Business School, and a BSSc with Honours in Psychology from the National University of Singapore. Before joining INSEAD, Professor Yap was a faculty at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At INSEAD, Professor Yap teaches in a variety of programs including Executive Education, MBA, EMBA, and PhD. His teaching and consulting expertise includes Leadership, Leadership Communication, Executive Presence, Leading High-Impact Teams, Strategy Execution & Organizational Change, Power And Politics, and Managerial Negotiation. At MIT, Professor Yap taught the graduate/undergraduate course on Managerial Psychology and the core leadership MBA course on Organizational Processes. Andy Yap is directing the Executive Presence and Influence (OOPS) programme.

Professor Yap is a social and organizational psychologist. His research program focuses on three overarching areas: (1) Signals of social status and its consequences, (2) The impact of hierarchy on person perception, and (3) How dimensions of social hierarchy affect important organisational outcomes (e.g. prosocial behaviour, subjective well-being, stress, organisational commitment and career decisions). Professor Yap’s work has important implications for how organisations can be structured to promote a workforce that is productive, motivated, and socially responsible.

Professor Yap's research has been published in leading academic journals including Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, as well as leading practitioner journals such as Harvard Business Review. His work has also been featured across a range of international media outlets including TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, The Atlantic, Financial Times, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), The Business Times (Singapore), The Straits Times (Singapore) and the US National Public Radio.