Nunzio Quacquarelli

President

Nunzio Quacquarelli serves as Founder and President of QS Quacquarelli Symonds in the United Kingdom, the global leader in higher-education analytics and services. QS partners with more than 2,500 universities worldwide and reaches around 70 million learners annually through its platforms, rankings, and research. It produces the QS World University Rankings, one of the most closely followed university rankings in the world, and was the first organisation to integrate employability and sustainability metrics into its global rankings. Quacquarelli founded QS in 1990 while pursuing his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The company began as a student project aimed at filling an information gap to help international students compare business schools. That same year, he won the MootCorp Business Plan competition representing Wharton, beating teams from Harvard, London Business School, and Stanford. QS has since grown into the global reference for university rankings and higher-education research, and Quacquarelli was named in 2010 among the "Top 50 Diverse Business Leaders Under 50" in the United States by Diversity MBA magazine. Quacquarelli graduated from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor's and Master's in Economics in 1986, before earning his MBA from Wharton in 1990, where he won the Glockner Prize for Management. He worked in management consulting before launching QS. He is widely regarded as a leading international voice on the governance of higher education, the impact of innovation and sustainability on universities, and the role of universities in preparing talent capable of competing in the global knowledge economy.