Prof. dr. Walter Baets

Walter Baets is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He is a renown international speaker and teacher in the areas of complexity, knowledge, innovation, and transformation. At the University of Cape Town he was Dean/Director of the Graduate School of Business and the Allan Gray Chair in Values Based Leadership.  He graduated in econometrics and operations research at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. After a corporate career in financial modeling and strategic consulting, he obtained a PhD (at Warwick Business School) and a Senior Doctorate (HDR, at Aix-Marseilles). He then developed an academic career which brought him in 7 countries on 2 continents. His key publications include Complexity, Organisations and Learning:  A Quantum Interpretation of Business (Routledge, 2006), Rethinking Growth: Social Intrapreneurship for Sustainable Performance (Palgrave, 2009 co-author Erna Oldenboom), Values Based Leadership in Business Model Innovation (Bookboon, 2013, co-author Erna Oldenboom), Une Interprétation Quantique de l’Innovation (Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2017), and Wie orde zaait zal chaos oogsten (Noordboek, 2022).  He is the Past Chair of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS), he is an astute photographer and together with his dog Theo he is a deputy shepherd.