Brief Bios of Possible International Speakers

Jamil Salmi   jamil.salmi@worldbank.org

  • Vice-President, Human Development, World Bank
  • Coordinator of the World Bank's network of tertiary education professionals
  • Professor, Education Economics, National Institute of Education Planning, Rabar
  • Principal author of the World Bank's new Tertiary Education Strategy entitled "Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education."
  • Prepared the World Bank's first Policy Paper on Higher Education (1994).
  • Has provided policy and technical advice on tertiary education to the governments of over 35 countries.

 

Niclas Adler   nadler@babson.edu

  • Vice President, Babson Global, Babson College, Abu Dhabi School of Management
  • CEO and Dean of Jönköping International Business School (JIBS).
  • Professor of management, Jönköping International Business School
  • Judge Business School, Cambridge University, England.

 

Mathew J. Manimala    manimala@IIMB.ERNET.IN

  • Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship for two terms
  • Senior Fellow, School of Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB), University of Essex, UK.
  • Professor of Organization Behaviour & Chairperson-OBHRM Area
  • Editor-South Asian Journal of Management
  • INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Click here for the short abstract  for Mathew J. Manimala 

 

Nickson Otieno    nickson.otieno@wscsd.org

 

Thaima Samman    thaimas@cabinet-samman.com

  • President, Women in Leadership
  • Previously Head of Corporate Affairs Department Microsoft Europe, Middle East & Africa
  • Founding member, of Samman & Associates Law firm (Paris).

 

Yennah Mulia Winata    yennah_mulia@yahoo.com

  • Co-Founder  & CEO of Accelerated Value Pte.Ltd based in Singapore.
  • CEO of Santa Laurensia School, Tangerang, Indonesia.
  • Chief Executive Officer,  Education Division,  Agung Podomoro Group (APG) –Indonesia
  • Previous COO and CFO at Bina Nusantara Group (Binus). 
  • Ms. Mulia holds an MBA degree from University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

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Lauri Repokari

  • M.Sc.(Arts.) University of Helsinki, Lic. of Tech. Helsinki University of Technology. 
  • Director, Aalto University “Design Factory”, Finland
  • participated in over 100 research projects and industrial R&D projects including funds from VW, Audi, Panasonic, Nokia, and SAP.
  • Industrially funded projects and teaching in collaboration with universities and industry in France, Japan, Germany, California and in Finland.
  • 30+ internationally reviewed publications in conferences and journals

 

Ville Taajamaa

  • MSc. (Tech) Aalto University
  • University of Turku managing the implementation of CDIO [ABET2000] to the Engineering education covering ICT and Biotechnology
  • Entrepreneur with more than 200 universities and HE Institutes in Finland, other Nordic countries, Russia, and in China
  • Member of Project Team building an interdisciplinary Learning Environment ”Aalto-Tongji Design Factory” to Tongji Campus in Shanghai 2010 in collaboration with the World Expo Shanghai 2010.
  • Consulted to several Ministries in Finland and abroad.