Biographies

Dr Ettore Bolisani

Ettore Bolisani obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering ("Laurea") and a Ph.D. in Innovation Studies at the University of Padua (Italy). He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Padua. Prior to this position, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste (Italy) and, in 1997, research fellow at PREST (University of Manchester - UK). His research centres on technology assessment and technology management, with an emphasis on Information and Communication Technologies and knowledge management. He has worked in several research projects funded by the European Union, by Italian public institutions, and private organisations as well. Ettore is Editor of “Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environment” (2008), published by IGI Global.

Ettore Bolisani

Dr Enrico Scarso

Enrico Scarso holds  a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Innovation at the University of Padua. He is currently Associate Professor of Engineering Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Padua. His research interests are in the area of economics and management of new technologies, and knowledge management. He has published in several journals and has presented various papers at international conferences. He has actively participated in important public (national and international) and private research projects. Enrico is member of IAMOT (International Association for Management of Technology) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Engineering Management Society).

Enrico Scarso

Antonio Linari

Antonio attended the Naval Academy in Livorno (Italy). He holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Pisa University and a MSc in Electronics applied to Telecommunications from Roma University. He has held the position of was Chief Officer of the division “Systems and Communications “ at MOD (Ministry of Defence - Italy). Currently he is CTO for Semantic Intelligence Division at Expert Systems, and Product Manager for the new COGITO® Focus platform.

Antonio Linari

Dr. Irma Becerra-Fernandez

Irma is the Knight Ridder Research Professor of Management Information Systems at Florida International University (FIU) College of Business Administration.  She’s currently a MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar with the Center for Information Systems Research and she is the 2007 Kauffman Entrepreneurship Professor.  Her research focuses on knowledge management (KM), KM systems, enterprise systems, disaster management, and IT entrepreneurship.  She has studied and advised organizations, in particular NASA, about KM practices. She founded the FIU Knowledge Management Lab ten years ago, and has obtained funding as principal investigator for over $1.8 M from the National Science Foundation, NASA (Kennedy, Ames, and Goddard Space Flight Center), and the Air Force Research Lab to develop innovative KM systems.  She has published extensively in leading journals. Dr. Becerra-Fernandez was the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Faculty Torch Award, presented by the FIU Alumni Association, the 2006 FIU Faculty Teaching Award and the 2001 FIU Faculty Research Award.  She is also the faculty director for the Masters in MIS, the director of the MIS Ph.D. Program.

Irma Becerra-Fernandez

Frieda Brioschi

Frieda is an ITC consultant and the President of Wikimedia Italia. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in May 2003, starting soon a great collaboration; she is known as a contributor under the pseudonym Frieda. In 2005 she was a founding member of Wikimedia Italia and the first president (2005-2007); then she served as one of the elected wikimedia community representative to the Board of Wikimedia Foundation (2007-2008).

Dr. Eduardo Tomé

Eduardo Tomé graduated in Economics in 1987 at the Universidade Católica in Lisbon. Afterwards, he gained a Masters Degree in Economics and Social Policy, on the economic and sociologic theories on training in 1994 at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) in Lisbon. He completed a PhD in Economics with a thesis on the European Social Fund in 2001, also at ISEG. His main research interests are Social Policy and Human Resources / Knowledge Management / Intellectual Capital. He has already published papers in International Refereed Journals such as the Journal of Intellectual Capital, the Journal of European Industrial Training, the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy and the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management. Since 2001 he has presented papers at about 4 international conferences every year.

Eduardo Tome

Dr Charles Despres

Charles Despres obtained his doctorate from the University of Utah (USA) by working on the organising implications of large-scale information systems. His subsequent research has centred on the triad of information, organisation and culture, and since 1997 his academic and professional career has concentrated on the emerging field of Knowledge Management. He joined IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 1991 as an ABD Research Fellow, completed his doctoral work and moved to the south of France four years later to assume research / professorial roles at the Institute d’Administration des Entreprises, Aix-en-Provence and the Theseus Institute (Sophia Antipolis). Charles was Professor of Organisation and Director of International Development at the Graduate School of Business, Marseille-Provence from 1997 - 2002. In 2003 he joined the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris as Director of Programs at its International Institute of Management. He has authored around 75 articles, chapters, monographs, grants or proceedings, and co-authored two books, Leveraged Innovation (Macmillan, 1998, with F. Bidault & C. Butler) and Knowledge Horizons (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, with D. Chauvel).

Charles Despres

Bernard Marr

Bernard Marr is one of the world’s leading experts on strategic performance management. In this capacity he has advised and worked with many leading organisations including Accenture, Astra Zeneca, the Bank of England, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu, Gartner, HSBC, Mars, the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, Tetley, the Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has extensive work experience in private companies, public sector organisations, and governments across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, which makes him an acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, teacher, and award-winning writer. In its recent article ‘wise guys’ the CEO Journal recognised Bernard Marr as one of today’s leading business brains. Having gained management experience in consulting, manufacturing and international trading corporations, Bernard Marr moved to the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, and then to the renowned Cranfield School of Management where he was a member of faculty for nearly ten years before he took on his current role as Chief Executive and Director of Research of the Advanced Performance Institute.

Bernard Marr has contributed to over 200 books, reports, and articles on topics such as Corporate Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Maps, and Intangible Assets. He is the author of the recent books: 'Strategic Performance Management', 'Perspectives on Intellectual Capital', 'Weighing the Options: BSC Software', and 'Automating your Scorecard'.

Bernard’s expert comments on performance management have been used in a range of high-profile publications including in the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, Financial Management, the CFO magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Bernard also holds various visiting professorships and is a member of the editorial board at the Business Strategy Series as well as for many leading academic journals in the field. Bernard Marr can be contacted via e-mail at bernard.marr@ap-institute.com

Bernard Marr

Dr Jose M. Viedma

Jose M. Viedma is a Doctor of Industrial Engineering, a Graduate in Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the U.P.C., Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He teaches on the subject of knowledge management, intellectual capital management and organisational learning.  He has held top executive positions in computer services and management consultancy firms.  He is the president of “Intellectual Capital Management Systems”, the founding partner of “ M & A Fusiones y Adquisiciones” and  the Independent Director of Interlace.  He is a regular speaker in International conferences and congresses on Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management such as World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation and European Conference on Knowledge Management. His current field of research and interest is focused on knowledge management and intellectual capital management and he has consulted and developed management frameworks and systems world wide on those matters. More information is available in the web-sites: http://intellectualcapitalmanagementsystems.com

Jose M. Viedma

Roy Williams

Roy Williams develops and manages e-learning and knowledge management for the University of Portsmouth, and for w.w associates in Reading, both in the U.K. His research includes the practical design development of knowledge and e-learning systems, the theory of knowledge and knowledge management, discourse analysis and semiotics, and the application of discourse analysis and complex adaptive systems theories to management and development issues. He is actively involved in the European Conferences on e-learning and Knowledge Management, and edits the Electronic Journal of e-learning. He has held posts of Visiting Professor of Education, Professor and Chair of Communication, and Executive Board Member and CEO of the South African Broadcast Regulator. He has also worked extensively in international development in literacy, distance education, media, HIV/AIDS, and national and international policy

Roy Williams

Updated 26 August 2009