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 studies at 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, regularly integrating findings from sociology, psychology, management, and finance. His work has been published in top academic and practitioner journals, including the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, and his findings have received numerous awards and were considered among the most globally influential scholarship on fmaily business 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 was an associate editor of the leading journal in the family business field—the Family Business Review—and is an editor of the pioneering knowledge-sharing platform—familybusiness.org.

 He has been a visiting professor at INSEAD, Fontainbleau (France), 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 speaker at both academic and practitioner conferences. He trains family business professionals on succession planning and supports the development of responsible next-generation owners and effective transgenerational team.