Biographies

Dr Matthias Finger

Born in 1955, Matthias Finger, a Swiss and French citizen, received his Ph.D. in Education in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1988, both from the University of Geneva. After having been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, New York (1989-1991) and Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York (1992-1994), Matthias Finger was appointed Full Professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne in 1995. This is where he developed his research on the transformation of the network industries in the postal, the telecommunications, the railways, the electricity, the air transport, and the water sectors. In his research, he reconciled the liberalization of these sectors with public service objectives by means of new regulatory arrangements, while at the same time promoting a more entrepreneurial behavior of the operators. Matthias Finger was appointed Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in October 2002 and Dean of Continuing Education in May 2003.

Matthias Finger

Panos Hahamis
Panos is a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management at Westminster Business School, and is teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.     He holds a first degree with Honours in Politics and Geography from the University of Westminster, a Masters in Advanced Information Technology with Distinction from London South Bank University and a PGCHE from the Education Initiative Centre, University of Westminster. After a 13-year career as a Greek Army Officer, including a 2-year tour of duty in Cyprus, Panos served as a Diplomat in London with the Greek Ministry of National Defence. He has also worked as a Researcher for a London Member of the European Parliament.. He is a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), the Chartered Institute of Linguists (MCIL), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Global Internet Society (ISOC) Member. For the past few years Panos has focused his research interests on e-Government. He is currently studying for a DBA at Henley Management College.

Panos Hahamis

Dr Trond Arne Undheim
Trond is the Director of standards strategy and policy, EMEA for Oracle. He was a National Expert on eGovernment at the European Commission and led the good practice exchange initiative, epractice.eu. Trond was the Project Manager on software policy at the Norwegian Board of Technology, and a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley in California. He has co-founded a think tank (www.liblab.no) and a consulting firm, and recently wrote the book Leadership from below (2008). He is a reviewer for the Research Council of Norway and a founding Editor of the European Journal of ePractice (http://www.epractice.eu/journal). Trond obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. For more details, please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/undheim

Trond Arne Undheim

Dr. Mary Griffiths
Mary is Associate Professor and Head of Media at the University of Adelaide where she has focussed the program on digital and participatory media. She has held positions in Screen and Media at the University of Waikato, NZ, and Monash University, where she was Head of Communications and Writing. Her research interests focus on the diverse political and social outcomes of new media practices, especially the cultural and ethical contexts of e-democracy, censorship regimes, e-citizens, citizen journalism, social networking online, online participation and learning, and mobile media. An associate editor for EJEG: the electronic journal of e-government, she is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of E-Government, and Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture. Recent publications include: ‘Media- Savvy Professionals; Intranets and Reinventing Government’ (2007), a co-authored chapter on online pedagogy, ‘The “Pastoral” in Virtual Space: A Tale of Two Systems and how E-Learning Practitioners Remake Them’ (2007). A chapter on citizen-based approaches to censorship policy regimes is forthcoming (2008).

Mary Griffiths

Margery Stapleton

Margery Stapleton is Director of the National Centre for Taxation Studies (NCTS) at the University of Limerick, Ireland. NCTS arose from a multimillion Euro academic partnership between the University of Limerick (UL) and the Irish Revenue Commissioners (Revenue). Both the BA (Hons) in Applied Taxation and the Diploma in Applied Taxation programmes are delivered in partnership with the Irish Revenue Commissioners. Margery has been involved in taxation education and research for over 20 years. Career activities include: Head of Department, Accounting & Finance (2001-2004); Course Director of the BA (Hons) in Law & Accounting (1994-2004); developed the Self-Assessment Quality Review Report of the Department of Accounting & Finance; developed the syllabus for the Irish Tax paper of the  Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and was the National Examiner for a number of years. Research interests include Environmental Taxes, e-Tax, Tax Evasion and Avoidance, and Taxation Education.

Margery Stapleton

Bruno de Vuyst
Bruno de Vuyst is associate professor at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Advisor Industrial Policy, VUB as well as secretary-general of BI³ Fund N.V., the VUB incubation and spin-off fund with an equity capital of 6 million euro. He is counsel at MVVP, Brussels, and an elected representative of the Flemish Bar Association general assembly. Bruno de Vuyst specializes in IP law and has written extensively on legal aspects of the Internet and of virtual organizations, as well as on IP-ICT and ethics.

Bruno de Vuyst

Dr. Jyoti Choudrie
Jyoti Choudrie is a Reader of Information Systems in the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Economics, Swansea University. Prior to that she was a lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Maths, Brunel University. She obtained her PhD on ‘Investigating Reengineering Teams in the Context of Business Process Change’ from Brunel University. Her current research encompasses the social aspects of e-government and e-governance, diffusion and adoption of broadband technology, the usability of e-government web sites, the impacts of the diffusion of broadband technology on electronic government, evaluation of information systems, the social aspects of information systems, and electronic commerce. She has written for peer reviewed journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), and Journal of Computing and Information Systems (JCIS).

Jyoti Choudrie

Dr Janet Kirkham
Janet Kirkham is Director of Professional Development Programmes at the University of Hertfordshire Business School.  She has an honours degree in Urban Studies (1985)  and a PhD in Social Sciences, gained in 1993, both from the Univeristyof Sheffield.   She is a member of the British Academy of Management,  a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the editorial board of Strategic Change journal.  She began her career lecturing in Strategic Management at the Business School at Sheffield Hallam University and became Head of MBA and DBA Programmes in  Senior Academic role there. She then joined the University of Hertfordshire in a similar role in 2001, moving to her present role in 2006.  Her present research focus is on the development of strategic management in small firms, alongside a developing interest in leadership in the delivery of public services, local government change and the e-government agenda.

Janet Kirkham