Jean de Bettignies

Jean-Etienne (“Jean”) de Bettignies is Professor, and Stephen J. R. Smith Professor of Business Economics, at the Smith School of Business (SSB) at Queen’s University. His research interests include organizational economics, entrepreneurship/innovation, non-market strategy, industrial organization, and public policy.  His work has been published in top-tier academic journals including Management Science; Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; International Journal of Industrial Organization; and Journal of Business Venturing. He is the recipient of the 2014 Research Excellence Award at SSB.

Jean has taught in a number of different programs during his tenure at Queen’s (2007 - 2022 and 2026 - present), including Full-Time MBA (FTMBA), Executive MBA Americas (EMBAA), MSc/PhD, Master of Finance in Toronto (MFIN-Toronto) and in Beijing (MFIN-Beijing), Graduate Diploma in Business (GDB), Commerce, and Executive Education programs. He was awarded the FTMBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2016 and 2026; the MFIN-Toronto Professor of the Year Award in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023; and the MFIN-Beijing Professor of the Year Award in 2019. 

Jean received his PhD and his MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2001. He also holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a MA in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain. 

From 2022 to 2025, Jean was Professor of Strategic Management in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto-Scarborough (UTSC-Management), with a cross appointment to the Strategic Management area at the Rotman School of Management. During that time, he was Acting Chair of Management (Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2024), Associate Chair - Faculty (Jul. 2023 - Dec. 2023, Jul. 2024 - Jan. 2025), and Coordinator of the Strategic Management Area (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025) at UTSC-Management. From 2001 to 2007, Jean was Assistant Professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.