Nunzio Quacquarelli is founder and CEO of QS Quacquarelli Symonds
Best known for producing the world’s most popular rankings – QS World University Rankings – QS is also a world leader in international postgraduate student recruitment, running 350 events in 57 countries, online platforms attracting over 60 million web visitors and offering student enrolment solutions.
Before starting his own business, Nunzio worked in strategy consulting in the UK and Italy. Later on, he established the not-for-profit foundation, QS Education Trust, and one year later, he designed the QS World University Rankings®.
In 2010, he was selected as one of the ‘top 50 business leaders under 50’ by Diversity MBA magazine in the USA and since 2014 he co-chairs the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards.
Nunzio contributes to leading media around the world, including The Times, Handelsblatt, South China Morning Post, and Corriere della Sera.
He holds a MA/BA in Economics from Cambridge and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from The Wharton School (UPenn), where he won the Glockner Prize for Management.