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Kurt Baes

Managing Partner

Head of Arthur D. Little in Belgium and Luxembourg

Kurt advises energy, utility, aerospace, automotive and manufacturing companies on performance improvement, growth strategy, and large organizational transformation.

Kurt Baes

Areas of Focus

Education

Cornell University (NY, USA)
Master of Business Administration
K.U.Leuven (Belgium)
Master of Science in Applied Economics

Past Experience

Volvo
Various intern positions

Kurt Baes

Kurt is Managing Partner, leading Arthur D. Little in Belgium and Luxembourg and based in Brussels, with over 20 years of strategy consulting experience. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and North America. He is the local leader of various industry (Oil & Gas, Utilities & Alternative Energy, Automotive, Industrial Goods & Services) and functional (Performance) practices. He also heads our Global Competence Center Leader for Energy Transmission.

Kurt serves a broad range of Energy & Utility players and their suppliers in international assignments, such as:

  • Strategy and business planning
  • Global organization redesign
  • Operational excellence/performance boosting
  • Large capital projects & programs
  • Engineering management
  • Risk and portfolio management
  • Asset management

Kurt advises large and mid-size global clients in the automotive and manufacturing industries (aerospace, construction, electronics) on assignments such as:

  • Strategy and business planning
  • Market analysis and entry strategy, including transaction support
  • Industrial reorganization and operations turnaround
  • Performance improvement

In addition, he advises in the area of Operations Management in international context cross-industry, covering Sourcing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, and overall Performance Improvement.

The buzz about energy data & where to find it
Energy, Utilities & Resources
The buzz about energy data & where to find it
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How data sharing is essential to deliver industry-wide transformation
How data sharing is essential to deliver industry-wide transformation
Michael Majster
Industries from energy to healthcare are facing up to transformational change. This is driven by several factors: a need for greater sustainability, reinforced by regulation; changes in consumer needs and behaviors requiring greater flexibility and customer-centricity; and technological development, especially digital and automation. Current geopolitical and economic trends affecting energy prices, supply chains and inflation are acting as a further driver.
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Powering India’s energy vision 2030
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Powering India’s energy vision 2030
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Energy, Utilities & Resources
Disruption is now
Michael Kruse, Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes, Irene Macchiarelli, Daniel Monzon, Trung Ghi, Rodolfo Guzman, Carlo Stella, Chiara Loreti, Martijn Eikelenboom, Sally Menassa, Eddy Ghanem, Alexander Krug, Dr. Philipp Seidel, Dr. Michael Opitz
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Appetite for disruption – Making the most of the future of food
Albert Meige, Phil Webster , Kurt Baes, Maki Kurosawa, Serkan Somer
Being the leader of a global food and beverage business has been anything but easy over recent years. Going back a decade, the industry had a reputation for being fairly stable and conservative, dominated by a limited number of global brands that delivered steady growth and margins. Since then, the industry has been shaken by a succession of disruptions, including sluggish demand for traditional core products, rapidly changing consumer patterns and preferences, accelerating technological developments, and evolving attitudes towards the environmental and social impacts of food production.
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Sustainability in the supply chain: The risks and the rewards
Tom Teixeira, Kurt Baes, Martijn Eikelenboom
Supply chain sustainability risk management
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Energy, Utilities & Resources
Industrial energy management
Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes
With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Distributed flexibility: The next pool of value
Kurt Baes, Alexander Krug, Florence Carlot
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Energy retailers: Facing the toughest transition in the energy sector
Kurt Baes, Andrea Romboli, Florence Carlot
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Energy, Utilities & Resources
What’s next for TSOs?
Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot
Within the energy ecosystem, the transition towards a more sustainable future mostly materializes through rapid increases in renewable energy sources, distributed generation and energy storage at large. The increasing share of intermittent generation sources is redefining the rules of the game – roles and accountability within the energy value chain are turned upside down.
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Flexibility services: Catch me if you can!
Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot
As utilities are exposed to bigger risks of supply-and-demand imbalance fueled by unpredictable, intermittent generation sources, they are searching for flexibility solutions to offset their open positions. In this market context, energy aggregators have emerged, and are taking an increasingly important role in optimizing electricity generation and demand volatility by providing the needed flexibility. Meanwhile, multiple traditional (integrated) utilities have developed similar demandside response (DSR) solutions and even acquired aggregators altogether.
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Future of batteries
Kurt Baes, Michael Kolk, Florence Carlot, Adnan Merhaba, Yuma Ito
Battery technologies are central to delivering significant advances in a wide range of industries, from electric vehicles to renewable power. This has catapulted battery technology to the top of the priority list for many players, leading to a huge boom in investment, as companies try to build key positions in the market.
Find out more

Kurt Baes

Kurt is Managing Partner, leading Arthur D. Little in Belgium and Luxembourg and based in Brussels, with over 20 years of strategy consulting experience. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and North America. He is the local leader of various industry (Oil & Gas, Utilities & Alternative Energy, Automotive, Industrial Goods & Services) and functional (Performance) practices. He also heads our Global Competence Center Leader for Energy Transmission.

Kurt serves a broad range of Energy & Utility players and their suppliers in international assignments, such as:

  • Strategy and business planning
  • Global organization redesign
  • Operational excellence/performance boosting
  • Large capital projects & programs
  • Engineering management
  • Risk and portfolio management
  • Asset management

Kurt advises large and mid-size global clients in the automotive and manufacturing industries (aerospace, construction, electronics) on assignments such as:

  • Strategy and business planning
  • Market analysis and entry strategy, including transaction support
  • Industrial reorganization and operations turnaround
  • Performance improvement

In addition, he advises in the area of Operations Management in international context cross-industry, covering Sourcing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, and overall Performance Improvement.

The buzz about energy data & where to find it
Energy, Utilities & Resources
The buzz about energy data & where to find it
Find out more
How data sharing is essential to deliver industry-wide transformation
How data sharing is essential to deliver industry-wide transformation
Michael Majster
Industries from energy to healthcare are facing up to transformational change. This is driven by several factors: a need for greater sustainability, reinforced by regulation; changes in consumer needs and behaviors requiring greater flexibility and customer-centricity; and technological development, especially digital and automation. Current geopolitical and economic trends affecting energy prices, supply chains and inflation are acting as a further driver.
Find out more
Powering India’s energy vision 2030
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Powering India’s energy vision 2030
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Disruption is now
Michael Kruse, Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes, Irene Macchiarelli, Daniel Monzon, Trung Ghi, Rodolfo Guzman, Carlo Stella, Chiara Loreti, Martijn Eikelenboom, Sally Menassa, Eddy Ghanem, Alexander Krug, Dr. Philipp Seidel, Dr. Michael Opitz
Find out more
Appetite for disruption – Making the most of the future of food
Albert Meige, Phil Webster , Kurt Baes, Maki Kurosawa, Serkan Somer
Being the leader of a global food and beverage business has been anything but easy over recent years. Going back a decade, the industry had a reputation for being fairly stable and conservative, dominated by a limited number of global brands that delivered steady growth and margins. Since then, the industry has been shaken by a succession of disruptions, including sluggish demand for traditional core products, rapidly changing consumer patterns and preferences, accelerating technological developments, and evolving attitudes towards the environmental and social impacts of food production.
Find out more
Sustainability in the supply chain: The risks and the rewards
Tom Teixeira, Kurt Baes, Martijn Eikelenboom
Supply chain sustainability risk management
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Industrial energy management
Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes
With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Distributed flexibility: The next pool of value
Kurt Baes, Alexander Krug, Florence Carlot
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Energy retailers: Facing the toughest transition in the energy sector
Kurt Baes, Andrea Romboli, Florence Carlot
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
What’s next for TSOs?
Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot
Within the energy ecosystem, the transition towards a more sustainable future mostly materializes through rapid increases in renewable energy sources, distributed generation and energy storage at large. The increasing share of intermittent generation sources is redefining the rules of the game – roles and accountability within the energy value chain are turned upside down.
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Flexibility services: Catch me if you can!
Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot
As utilities are exposed to bigger risks of supply-and-demand imbalance fueled by unpredictable, intermittent generation sources, they are searching for flexibility solutions to offset their open positions. In this market context, energy aggregators have emerged, and are taking an increasingly important role in optimizing electricity generation and demand volatility by providing the needed flexibility. Meanwhile, multiple traditional (integrated) utilities have developed similar demandside response (DSR) solutions and even acquired aggregators altogether.
Find out more
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Future of batteries
Kurt Baes, Michael Kolk, Florence Carlot, Adnan Merhaba, Yuma Ito
Battery technologies are central to delivering significant advances in a wide range of industries, from electric vehicles to renewable power. This has catapulted battery technology to the top of the priority list for many players, leading to a huge boom in investment, as companies try to build key positions in the market.
Find out more

More About Kurt
  • Cornell University (NY, USA)
    Master of Business Administration
  • K.U.Leuven (Belgium)
    Master of Science in Applied Economics
  • Volvo
    Various intern positions