Jonas Ridderstråle

Jonas Ridderstråle (born August 26, 1966) is a Swedish business speaker, thinker and author, best known for the bestselling book Funky Business - Talent Makes Capital Dance. He is currently a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and IE Business School.

Background Ridderstråle was born in 1966 as the oldest of three brothers. He grew up in Staffanstorp in southern Sweden. He later moved to Stockholm, where he currently lives with his wife and two children.

Honors In 2000, Jonas was recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year by JCI Sweden. In 2007, he received the Italian Nobels Colloquia award for “Leadership in Business and Economic Thinking”. The 2009 Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of management thinkers, ranked him at number 23 globally and put him on the top-five list of European business gurus.

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