PETER JASKIEWICZ 

Peter was born into a business family in Poland and grew up in Germany. Wanting to understand why succession failed in his family’s business, Peter researched family businesses during both his doctoral studiesat the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, and while visiting INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and IESE Business School, Barcelona. Today, he is a Full Professor of family enterprise at the Telfer School of Management in Ottawa. He is the founder and leader of the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute. 

His research is interdisciplinary and international in nature and regularly integrates research from sociology, psychology, management, finance, and family science. His work has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Harvard Business Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Family Business Review, among others. His findings on family business have received numerous awards and were considered among the most globally influential scholarship in 2013, 2015, and 2017. 

Peter has presented his research insights to members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, and employees of the United Nations. In addition, he has also worked with the federal government in Canada. He is an associate editor of the leading journal in the family business field—the Family Business Review—and of the pioneering knowledge-sharing platform—familybusiness.org. He has been a visitingprofessor at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland), Zhejiang University (China), Sorbonne Business School and University de Nanterre (both France), and King’s College (United Kingdom), and is a frequent keynote speakerat both academic and practitioner conferences. He trains family business professionals on succession planning and supports the development of responsible next-generation owners and effectivetransgenerational teams.