Biographies

Prof. Dr. Daniel Andriessen
Dr. Daniel Andriessen is Professor of Intellectual Capital at INHOLLAND University of professional education, The Netherlands, and director of the INHOLLAND Centre for research in Intellectual Capital, a research group set up to study the impact of the intangible economy on people and organizations. Recently, his centre organized the very successful Intellectual Capital Congress 2007 in May in Haarlem (The Netherlands), a congress that will be repeated in May 2009 (www.iccongress.com). Through his Weightless Wealth Research Group he offers help to companies, governmental and educational organizations, academics, and students on the subject of knowledge management and intellectual capital valuation and measurement (www.weightlesswealth.com ). He is a popular speaker at conferences and likes to do guest lectures, presentations, and training sessions on a variety of subjects related to the growing importance of intangibles.Daniel received his Ph.D. degree at Nyenrode University in The Netherlands and he holds a masters degree in political and administrative science at the Free University, Amsterdam. His publications include Value-Based Knowledge Management: Creating the 21st Century Company: Knowledge Intensive, People Rich (Addison-Wesley, 1998), with Prof. Dr. René Tissen and associate professor Frank Lekanne Deprez. Together with Prof. Dr. René Tissen he wrote Weightless Wealth: Find Your Real Value in a Future of Intangibles Assets (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000). His PhD thesis was published in 2004 by Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann and was entitled Making Sense of Intellectual Capital; Designing a Method for the Valuation of Intangibles. In his recent research Daniel explores the role of metaphor in knowledge construction and science. When he realized that the term Intellectual Capital is in fact based on specific metaphors for knowledge he decided to analyze the various metaphors we use for knowledge and their impact on knowledge management. An analysis of metaphors in the work of Stewart, Davenport & Prusak and Nonaka & Takeuchi was published in the Journal of Intellectual Capital: Andriessen, D. (2006) On the metaphorical nature of intellectual capital: a textual analysis, Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol. 7 (1). In his keynote Daniel will share with you the latest results of his research into metaphor and knowledge management.

Daniel Andriessen

Dr. Christiaan D. Stam

Christiaan Stam (1965) is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital at INHOLLAND University of Applied Sciences (www.inholland.nl/intellectualcapital). Central themes in his work are knowledge management, intellectual capital measurement and knowledge productivity. In 1999 he initiated www.intellectualcapital.nl, a startpage for the IC-community. In December 2007 he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Knowledge Productivity at Twente University, The Netherlands. For more information and a list of publications see: http://www.intellectualcapital.nl/ChristiaanStam/home.html.

Christiaan Stam

Professor Leif Edvinsson
Professor  Edvinsson is a key pioneering contributor to the theory of Intellectual Capital and sometimes named as the Grandfather of IC. As the world’s first director of IC in 1991 he initiated the creation of the world's first public corporate Intellectual Capital Annual Report 1994, and inspired the development ever since on IC metrics. He was parallel to that starting the Skandia Future Center as a Lab for Organisational design, one of the very first in the World in 1996, and now being followed by many in various parts of the world. During 1996 he was recognised with awards from the American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and Business Intelligence, UK, for his pioneering work on IC. In 1999 noted as Most Admired Knowledge Award on Knowledge Leadership.  He was also awarded The KEN Practitioner of the Year 2004, from Entovation International, where he also is an E 100.  In January 1998, Leif received the prestigious Brain Trust "Brain of the Year" award, UK.  In 2006 also listed in a book by London Business Press, as one of The 50 Most influential Thinkers in the World. He is listed in Who’s Who in the world. Also associate member of The Club of Rome. He is also Cofounder and Chairman of The New Club of Paris, focused on the Knowledge Economy initiatives.Leif has his education from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, as MBA and Lund University, Sweden, as civilekonom. He is the author of numerous articles on the service management and on Intellectual Capital. In March 1997, together with Michael S. Malone, he launched one of the very first books on Intellectual Capital. Leif is serving on the Board of Directors of several knowledge intensive enterprises among others earlier the Swedish Brain Research Foundation as well as for many years the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2000 he has been the Honorary Chairman of the UK based Henley College, KM Forum. Since 2000, he has been the world’s first Professor, adjunct at Lund University on Intellectual Capital. In January 2006, he was also appointed professor adj. at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and later promoted to Chair Professor in 2007.

Leif Edvinsson

Professor Ahmed Bounfour
European Chair on Intellectual Capital Management, University Paris-Sud, Vice President , The New Club of Paris.

Dr Ahmed Bounfour graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and has a PhD in economics and strategic management from the Paris-Dauphine University. He was Associate Professor for Innovation Policy and Strategic Management at University of Marne-La-Vallée, East Paris, France (1994-2004). He was previously Director for high tech programmes within Euroconsult, especially in charge for space projects (telecommunications and Earth Observation) (1984-1994). Ahmed Bounfour has conducted many assignments and has contributed to, and/or led, several studies on European space industry competitiveness. In the fields of intangible investment, Dr Bounfour conducts research, as a part of a large reflection on industrial competitiveness and future socioeconomic systems development. He has developed a guideline for reporting and measurement of intangibles , namely the IC-dVAL® -Intellectual Capital dynamic Value. He is/ was member of several academic and professional Working Groups and has published numerous papers on strategic planning and competitiveness, in academic as well as in professional journals. He works as reviewer or Member of the Scientific Board for several journals in innovation, knowledge management and management science.

Ahmed Bounfour

Miriam Buutkamp
Miriam Buutkamp (1970) is program manager of this year's European Conference on Intellectual Capital. In 2008 Miriam joined the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (CRIC). She is the main liaison between INHolland University Haarlem, the host of this year's conference, and Academic Conferences. Since 1990 she worked as a management assistant for a variety of public and private organizations and has extensive experience in organizing large scale events. 

Miriam Buutkamp

Tjip de Jong
Tjip holds a bachelor degree in Economics and finished his study Business Administration Cum Laude in 2005. During his study he was a teacher in Economics and accounting at a private school in the Netherlands. Tjip combines a PhD study at the University of Twente with his work as a consultant and researcher at Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company. Tjip is part of the research practice, a group of young consultants and researchers who use Human Resource Development research as an intervention within organizations. In his research he focuses on the relation between social capital, social networks and knowledge productivity. He sees knowledge productivity as a social process based on interaction between actors in networks. His work as a researcher and consultant focus on this interest. Tjip is lecturer at the Foundation of Corporate Eduction (FCE) in which he supervises and teaches students in setting up and conducting HRD research. He has published regularly on the topics of social capital, social networks and knowledge productivity. He is also the creator of the website: www.learningbyconnecting.com.

Tjip de Jong

Dr Aino Kianto, Ph.D. (Econ.)
Dr Kianto is Professor of Knowledge Management at the Department of Business Administration, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Her research interests include, for example, the knowledge-based view of the firm, intellectual capital, organizational renewal and innovation, creativity and imagination, and social capital.

Aino Kianto

Dr. Rongbin W. B Lee
Prof. Rongbin W.B.Lee is the Chair Professor and Director of the Knowledge Management Research Centre, of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently a council member of the Hong Kong Productivity Council and a member of the assessment panel of the Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Professor Lee is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital and the International Journal of Knowledge Science and Systems Science. He established the Knowledge Solution Laboratory, the first of its kind in Hong Kong and has pioneered research and practice of knowledge management in various organizations which include manufacturing, trading, public utilities, various government departments and health care. Prof. Lee and his team have launched Asia’s first on-line MSc. Program in Knowledge Management. His research interest includes manufacturing strategy, knowledge management, organizational learning and intellectual capital based management.

Rongbin W. B Lee

Dr. Karl-Heinz Leitner
Karl-Heinz Leitner is Senior Researcher in the Department of Technology Policy at the Austrian Research Centers. He received his PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the Vienna University, was Visiting Research Scholar at the Copenhagen Business School and teaches at the Technical University of Vienna. His main research interests cover innovation processes in companies, strategic management, research policy and the valuation of intellectual capital. Karl-Heinz Leitner carried out studies dealing with the design of reporting, management accounting and funding systems for research organisations, universities and public bodies. Karl-Heinz Leitner was involved in projects related to the implementation of intellectual capital reporting systems; amongst others for the Austrian Research Centers, the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. He was involved in international research projects funded by the European Commission and has published in Higher Education, R&D Management, Management Accounting Research und Research Evaluation.

Karl-Heinz Leitner

Dr. Antti Lönnqvist
Dr. Lönnqvist works as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Business Information Management and Logistics, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor at Helsinki University of Technology. At TUT, he acts as the manager of the Performance Management Team – a centre for intellectual capital and productivity research. His research interests focus on business performance measurement and management. Topical research themes include intellectual capital management, mobile business services and the productivity of public services. Antti has published in journals such as Information Systems Management, Int. J. of Knowledge Management Studies, Int. J. of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Int. J. of Networking and Virtual Organizations, Int. J. of Public Sector Management and Journal of Intellectual Capital.

Antti Lönnqvist

Professor Bernard Marr
Bernard Marr is one of the world’s leading experts on strategic performance management and balanced scorecards. He specializes in the identification, measurement and management of strategic performance drivers. In this capacity he has advised and worked with many leading organizations including Accenture, Astra Zeneca, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu, Gartner, HSBC, NovoNordisk, the Home Office, Mars, the Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has extensive work experience in private companies, public sector organizations, and governments across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Until recently, he was a Research Fellow at the renowned Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management and has just taken the position of chief executive and director of research for the Advanced Performance Institute. Bernard is also a visiting professor at various universities, chairman of the international PMA IC Group, Intangible Assets Editor of the journal Measuring Business Excellence, and member of the editorial board of The Handbook of Business Strategy. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of many leading journals in the field and holds various non-executive directorships. The CEO Journal, in it’s article “Wise Guys”, recognized Bernard Marr as one of today’s leading business brains.

Bernard Marr

Dr. Gordon McConnachie
Gordon McConnachie is an expert consultant, now based in Thailand, who specialises in the creation and extraction of value from intangible assets: he advises companies, educational institutions, non-governmental organisations and governments on how to best meet their specific needs using current best practice or through developing novel approaches. He is an affiliate of AREOPA, Belgium and of ICMG of Palo Alto, USA, both worldwide network of experts in demonstrating and extracting value from intangible assets, and is also the founding Board Chairman of The IA Centre in Glasgow, Scotland (www.ia-centre.org.uk) the first centre globally to be formed with public money and chartered to advise indigenous industry on how best to capitalise on opportunities presented by the knowledge based economy through leveraging their intellectual capital. Gordon’s prior hands-on experience includes directing the European IAM Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and leading the development of the Dow Chemical IAM Process in Europe: he has 26 years of experience in Industrial Research, Business and Intellectual Asset Management and has B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees awarded by the University of Aberdeen (UK). A Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society and a Member of LES, he has advised the European Commission and the United Nations on aspects of ICM, and is currently recognised by both as an expert in this field. His principal client base is in Europe, in China and in South-East Asia. He currently conducts lectures as part of the M.Sc. course in ICM at Rajabhat Suan Dusit University, Thailand and is co-operating with the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong to develop innovative new courseware for organisations working in the knowledge based economy.

Gordon McConnachie

Dr. Marien van den Boom
Marien van den Boom has a PhD degree in modern Arab and Islamic philosophy and the reception of Western philosophy in the Middle East. He has more than 25 years experience as Senior Lecturer in Asian history and cultures in various universities. His academic and research interests are cross-cultural issues and international business communication as well as the interrelation between national cultures, knowledge economy and Intellectual Capital. Dr. Van den Boom is currently research fellow of the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital and senior research adviser of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Applied Research, INHOLLAND University. Besides his role as project-coordinator of SPICE, Dr. Van den Boom is also active in the management of international projects in Asia. He wrote several articles on culture and knowledge economy, cross-cultural business communication, the dialogue between Western and Arab-Islamic philosophy.

Marien van den Boom

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