Leadership & Disruption

Lucy Küng is an Associate Professor at the Media Management and Transformation Centre at the University of Jönköping, Sweden, Senior Research Fellow at Ashridge, UK, and adjunct faculty member at the University of St Gallen. She is a Member of the Supervisory Board of the Swiss public service broadcasting corporation, SRG SSR idée Suisse, and from 2008-2010 was President of the European Media Management Association.
Before moving into academia, Lucy Küng had extensive experience in book publishing, starting her professional life as an Assistant Editor at Weidenfeld and Nicolson in London, and serving from 1988-1992 as Publishing Director at Random House UK. In addition to many articles and cases, Lucy Küng is the author of Strategic Management in the Media: from Theory to Practice (Sage, 2008), The Internet and the Mass Media (Sage, 2008), and Inside the BBC and CNN: Managing Media Organisations (Routledge, 2000).
Lucy Küng holds a Habilitation and PhD from the University of St Gallen.

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Martin Eppler is a full professor of media and communication
management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), where he is also the
managing director of the institute for media and communication
management. He conducts research on innovation methods and
knowledge-intensive management
communication. He has been a guest professor at various universities
in Asia, South America, and Europe. He has been an a collaborator or
advisor to organizations such as the United Nations, Bain, Ringier,
Philips, UBS, the Swiss Military, Ernst & Young, KPMG, The Herald
Tribune, Swiss Re, Daimler and others. Martin Eppler studied
communications, business administration and social sciences at Boston
University, the Paris Graduate School of Management, and the
Universities of Geneva and St.Gallen. He has published more than 120
academic papers and twelve books. He is a very experienced educator and entrepreneur.

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Dr Leona Achtenhagen is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. Her research has been published in numerous academic journal articles and book chapters in the entrepreneurship, strategy and media fields as well as practitioner-oriented outlets. Professor Achtenhagen's current research interests comprise entrepreneurial and strategic activities in different media sectors, the representation of entrepreneurship in different kinds of media, as well as internationalization processes. Her main areas in teaching cover entrepreneurship and strategic management, including corporate entrepreneurship as entrepreneurial activities in existing organizations. She serves on the editorial boards of five academic journals.

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Dr. Miriam Meckel (1967) is a professor of corporate communications and director of the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She studied media and communication sciences, Sinology, political science and law at the University of Münster (Germany) and the University of Taipei (Taiwan). Following her studies, she worked as an on-air presenter, reporter and editor for news and news magazines at both public and private German broadcasters (ARD, VOX and RTL). In 1999, she joined the faculty at the University of Münster as a professor of communication science and journalism. In 2001, Meckel was appointed as the state secretary serving the office of the premier of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, initially as a government spokesperson, and subsequently as the state secretary for Europe, international affairs and media. She is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in the USA and a visiting professor at Singapore Management University.

Miriam Meckel will host a session on Social Media: crowd management and community building.

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Bozena Mierzejewska is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Management at Fordham University, New York, USA. Dr. She holds an M.A. in Economics from Warsaw School of Economics in Poland, and earned her Ph.D. in management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Her research and teaching focuses on media management, digitalisation, and its impact on media organizations and media workers. She is a recipient of the 2010 Sherman Teaching Award as well as co-editor of JMM – The International Journal on Media Management and she also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Media Economics, the Central European Journal of Communication and The International Journal on the Book. She is an accomplished speaker, conference host and devoted educator.

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Christian is assistant professor of media and communications management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. An economist by training, he studied at the Universities of St. Gallen and Shanghai, at the former he also obtained his PhD with a dissertation on corporate social responsibility. At the University of St. Gallen he is currently teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses, covering in particular courses on new media, corporate communications, media management and communication science. His research interests center on organizational identity, internal communication, and the social implications of new media. In the last years, he was responsible for several of the Institute for Media and Communications Management’s consulting projects in the area of organizational identity and change communication, among other in the fields of hospitality, automotive, telecommunications and traditional media.

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Robert G. Picard is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute in the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College (Oxford), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. A specialist in media economics and policy, he is the author and editor of 27 books, including Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations, The Economics and Financing of Media Companies, Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities, The Internet and the Mass Media, and Media Firms: Structure, Operations, and Performance. He has been editor of the Journal of Media Business Studies and The Journal of Media Economics. Picard received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and has been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has consulted and carried out assignments for governments in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia and for international organisations including the European Commission, UNESCO, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He has been a consultant for leading media companies in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, and Contemporary Authors.

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Chair for Media and Culture, co-director of media and communications management institute (MCM), Vincent Kaufmann is also leading the Center of Book and Publishing Studies at the MCM. Prior to this work, he was Full Professor at the University of California at Berkley in the Department of French, where he acted as Department Chair from 1993-1996. His main publications include, L’Equivoque épistolaire, Paris, Minuit, 1990 (translation in English : Post Scripts, Harvard University Press, 1994); Poétique des groupes littéraires. Avant-gardes 1920 – 1970, Paris, PUF, 1997; Guy Debord. La révolution au service de la poésie, Paris, Fayard, 2001 (translation in English : Guy Debord. Revolution in the Service of Poetry, The University of Minnesota Press, 2006); and Guy Debord. Œuvres, présentation et introductions, Paris, Gallimard,coll. “Quarto”, 2006.

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Horst Stipp, joined The Advertising Research Foundation as EVP Global Business Strategy in January 2011 after long career in the Research department of NBC Universal in New York. Stipp received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, USA, and has been involved in media research for 40 years. Before retiring from NBC Universal, he was SVP, Strategic Insights and Innovation, responsible for strategy research and methodological innovation. His publications, in English and German, cover a wide range of topics and he frequently presents at conferences, both in the US and in Europe. Recently, his work has focused on changes in media use and their impact on consumer behavior and advertising in the digital age.

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Monique Valcour is Professor of Management at EDHEC Business School (France), where she teaches executive and MBA courses on leadership, careers, HR and performance management. Her research program focuses on the integration of work and non-work roles, career success, and human resource management. She is also a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Work and Family Researchers Network.

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John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and Professor (Limited Term) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University; he directs the Public Knowledge Project which is dedicated to conducting research and developing software that extends the public and scholarly quality of academic publishing. His books include the Empire of Words: the Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994) and Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998), Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000), and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).

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d Nawotka is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, an online magazine for the international publishing industry that has been called “the BBC of the book world.”
Prior to launching Publishing Perspectives, he worked as book columnist for Bloomberg News and daily news editor of Publishers Weekly.
He has also served as the literary director of the Texas Book Festival, a judge for various book awards, and has worked as a foreign correspondent, a bookseller, literary magazine editor and advertising copywriter.
As a journalist he has reported from more than 30 countries. He continues to be a widely published freelance writer, with his work regularly appearing in publications across the United States, as well as overseas.
Ed’s reviews, essays and reporting have appeared in The New Yorker, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Travel + Leisure, Los Angeles Times, Budget Travel, New Statesman, USA Today, and People, among others.
He has appeared as a guest on various television and radio programs, including those on NPR, PRI, BBC, and C-SPAN, and has lectured at numerous universities and institutions.

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