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Dr Will Venters is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Digital Innovation within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He speaks regularly at practitioner conferences on various digital business issues, particularly around Digital Ecosystems, Digital Innovation and Cloud Computing; has briefed  European government policy makers and various company executives; and  undertakes wide ranging consultancy in IT strategy and Digital transformation . His research interests include Digital Transformation, Digital Platforms and Ecosystems ,AI, and Agile innovation approaches. He has a first-class degree in computer science and a PhD in information systems. His research work has been published in major refereed journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Information Systems Journal. He co-authored the  Palgrave book   “Moving to the Cloud Corporation” and is the author of a blog on digital technology   www.binaryblurring.com  and is an associate editor of the Journal Information Technology and People.

Mimosa Distefano is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London (UCL). Current areas of research include: Labour Economics: Determinants of workers' career profiles; Gender Inequality in the labor market; Spatial trends in wage inequality Public Economics: Profit taxation; Capital taxation; Payroll Taxation

Expert in policymaking, public sector strategy, and digital innovation Passionate about improving governments through projects that are meaningful, realistic and forwardlooking for the client Eight years of experience in public sector research and consulting positions, working with highest level civil servants and politicians Current research focuses on digital innovation and data in public decision-making Country expertise on Finland and the UK Authored several policy reports for Finnish Government on how to improve Finnish policymaking practices

I am researcher based in London, UK, currently undertaking an PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with my current research focusing on the politics of agrarian change and conflict in Myanmar. I am Leverhulme Trust Scholar at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE. My background is in qualitative research methods, and have worked in complex risk environments for extended periods of time.  I am also a photographer and film-maker, and have conducted ethnographic work and photographic projects in countries including Nepal, Myanmar, Bolivia, South Africa, Canada and the UK. Alongside this I have published in several news outlets including the Diplomat, LSE Review of Books and New Naratif. PhD Research Topic:  My research investigates the politics of agrarian change in Myanmar, in particular the role of state building aspirations among minority ethnic groups, legal land regimes, conservation & resource conflicts. My broader interests lie in environmental politics, animism, development and militarism, and how these intersect with processes of state formation and nationalism. I have worked primarily alongside Karen peoples in highland areas of Southeastern Myanmar which have been home to one of the worlds longest civil wars.

I am a third year PhD Student in Economics at the LSE, supervised by Professor Alan Manning. My interests lie within labour economics, focussing on technological change and the labour market with application towards inequality. https://tdmonk.com

Versatile freelance consultant, senior researcher and project lead.  Based on my experience across a range of fields I have set up Innovation Office to work on impactful projects serving private and public clients. Areas of expertise: • Education & Skills • Environment & Energy • Democracy & Governance • Public Policy/EU Policies • International Development • Urban & Regional Development • Trade & Investment • Psychological & Behavioural Science • Media, Communications and Culture • Organisations and management •  Entrepreneurship & Innovation Please get in touch with any collaboration opportunities, happy to provide further information on my experience related to the above areas.

Laura Giurge is an award-winning organisational scholar and behavioural scientist. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She earned a Ph.D. in Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam and two cum laude master’s degrees in economics and business and in human resources management from the University of Groningen. Prior to joining LSE, Dr. Giurge was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Cornell University and at London Business School, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Her research seeks to make work better and enable all individuals to thrive and achieve their potential. Giurge’s research has been published in top journals such as Organizational Behavioral and Human Decision Processes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, and The Leadership Quarterly. She also publishes popular press articles in outlets such as  Harvard Business Review ,  Forbes , and  The Wall Street Journal . In 2020, one of her papers received the  Best Paper Award  at the Academy of Management. Full  CV here . At LSE, Dr. Giurge is part of the teaching team for the Executive MSc in Behavioral Science. At LBS, she connects with MBA and Executive MBAs in teaching elective courses on negotiations, well-being, productivity, and the future of work. Dr. Giurge regularly engages in  corporate consulting and executive coaching  and serve as an academic partner and advisor. Occasionally, she leads interactive and science-backed workshops, lectures, and keynote talks aligned with her expertise. Her most recent talk has been at the University of Cambridge. As a side hobby, Dr. Giurge enjoys creating powerful images that connect us to  our planet  and inner  happiness .

Alexander is attached to the  Department of Media and Communications  at LSE, where he undertakes research, teaching and other activities. He also teaches on LSE Custom Programmes and the Masterclasses in Social Science, in the UK and Spain. Alexander brings extensive previous international career experience including at C-suite level to the LSE in digital, internet, e-commerce, FMCG, media & broadcasting, aerospace and banking including financial crime/AML. He advises organisations and government and undertakes research in digital, media and communications, socioeconomic analysis, health economics, productivity and management practices, as well as teaching in these and other areas. Many of Alexander's findings are high profile with a number of reports amongst the most downloaded from the LSE including 'The British Cycling Economy' with around 22,000 downloads.  Others such as the ‘Sky High Economics’ report trilogy is recognised as leading industry analysis and has provided the content that has won three international communications awards including the  B2B Campaign Award for Ogilvy-Inmarsat at the International Content Marketing Awards 2018, a SABRE 2020 PR Award beating 6,000 global entries, and the prestigious  2020 CIPR Award in PR in the Transport segment. The 2020 released report quantifying the socioeconomic impact of road traffic accidents globally in children remains one the most detailed reports of its kind and was launched by HM Queen Letizia of Spain in conjunction with the UN and UNICEF in 2020. Alexander continues to undertake detailed research pre-and post the pandemic on the transformative role of digitalisation and how this affects cohort behaviour, social, and consumer activities and organisational responses including defining whether entities are 'hiders, thrivers or survivors'. Expertise: digital; e-commerce; internet; new media; broadcasting; cohort behaviour (social media, digital and non-digital); information systems, cloud; management practices and productivity; innovation; socioeconomic analysis; health, injury and transport economics; financial crime/AML; aerospace. LSE Major Research and Projects (public domain): Digitalisation in the New Normal: Empowering Generation Z and Millennials to Deliver Change .    Freshworks, November 2022 New Era In Experience Adobe, April  2021 Sky High Economics - Chapter Three: Capitalising on changing passenger behaviour in a connected world Ogilvy / Inmarsat Aviation, September 2019 Sky High Economics - Chapter Two: Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Connected Airline Operations Ogilvy / Inmarsat Aviation, June 2018 Sky High Economics - Chapter One: Quantifying the commercial opportunities of passenger connectivity for the global airline industry Ogilvy / Inmarsat Aviation, September 2017 Managing Every Mile:  How to deliver greater return on investment from Travel and Expense Amadeus, September 2017 Industrial Strategy in Practice: Innovation and Management Best Practices in the Automobile, Energy and Aerospace Clusters in Bizkaia May 2017 The Power of Productivity Vodafone, December 2016 Socioeconomic Value of Mission Critical Mobile Applications for Public Safety in the UK: 2x10MHz in 700MHz Motorola, May 2013 Socioeconomic Value of Mission Critical Mobile Applications for Public Safety in the EU: 2x10MHz in 700MHz in 10 European Countries Motorola, March 2013 The British Cycling Economy: ‘Gross Cycling Product’ Report British Cycling/BSkyB, September 2011 The Olympic Cycling Effect British Cycling/BSkyB, November 2012 The Impact of Road Traffic Accidents with Child Victims Abertis in conjunction with United Nations Collaboration Group for Road Safety and UNICEF,  January 2020 The Transformative Effect of Cloud on Firm Productivity and Performance: Defining the Benefits and Impact of Cloud as a 21st Century Digital Enabler Amazon Web Services, March 2019 Confident Collaboration in the Cloud Navisite, June 2018 Modelling the Cloud Employment effects in two exemplary sectors in The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy Microsoft, January  2012 Innovation, Skills Development and Labour: A European Perspective Microsoft, June 2007 Size and Health of the UK Space Industry : Economic and qualitative analysis and input into the 2021 UK Space Agency's survey and report quantifying the size and health of the UK Space Sector and also acting as sector and economic SME. BryceTech, UK Space Agency, 2021. LSE Major Research and Projects (not public-domain): Development of an Index of 'Alpha' Characteristics of Success for Target Firms.   Developing index encompassing qualitative and quantitative factors that can assign a rating reflecting the prevalence of 'alpha' success factors to enable a comparative assessment of the attraction of target prospects for MBOs and other off-market transactions. Confidential, UK/US Venture Capital Firm Identity Capital: Monetising the value of Identity.   Developing algorithm and methodology to quantify the value of social and individual data (business and personal) for GB Group to define a value for 'identity capital' for entities and individuals based on the nature of available data and other factors in an increasingly digitalised identity environment. GB Group Quantifying the Socioeconomic Contribution of Warner Brothers UK:    Deep and wide analysis of Warner Brothers' complex UK operations to define its socioeconomic contribution  to the UK economy including its direct, indirect and induced contribution. Warners Brothers UK Quantifying the Socioeconomic Contribution of One of the UK's Largest Sports and Leisure Events Organisations.  Detailed ground-up analysis and extensive demand and economic modelling of the integrated entity to define its socioeconomic direct, indirect and induced contribution both to the local and national economy. Confidential- Major leading UK leisure and sports organisation Revised Regulatory Impact Analysis of FAA Part 117 Final Rule: Flight Crew Member Duty Rest Requirements ('Cargo Carve Out'):  Analysis of original FAA decision assessing the carve out for the air cargo sector including deep analysis of key variables utilised for the decision.  Confidential- US/UK Air Transport organisation Economic Impact Assessment - UK Spaceport:  Input into the economic analysis of a UK spaceport including deep assessment of direct, indirect and induced contribution and acting as sector and economic SME. Confidential- UK organisation Economic Impact Assessment - Major UK Car Manufacturer: Quantifying the socioeconomic contribution (Gross Value Added) and employment effect for a leading UK global car manufacturer and brand including detailed modelling and report for use with government and other audiences including media. Confidential- UK car manufacturer and leading global brand. Cybercrime and Cybersecurity:  Assessing major trends, risks and mitigation in online digital services and by cohorts and defined segmentation, with recommended best-practices by major geographic regions . Confidential- Global telecom manufacturer: equipment, hardware, software and security

Thamim is a Digital Leader, with a focus on Innovation, Research and Development within Digital Payments and Currencies. Thamim has worked closely with several public and private financial intuitions in developing deep research programmes, coordinating knowledge transfer and building commercial roadmaps. Thamim is a Physicist by background, starting his career as a software engineer, and going on to work as a product lead with several high growth start-ups. Thamim’s current research interest stems around Web 3.0; looking closely at how blockchain and distributed ledger systems are disrupting core business processes and creating new governance structures. His research interests have been in Central Bank Digital Currencies, Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies, Protocol Design and Privacy Protocols and Token Economics.

Dr Carsten Sørensen is Reader (Associate Professor) in Digital Innovation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Carsten has since 1989 been affiliated with a number of Danish, Swedish and British institutions. Carsten’s research has since the late 1980s been concerned with the digitalization of organisational processes, have spans software development, manufacturing, telecommunications, and many others. Carsten has studied both the digital transformation of enterprises, and the further extension to understand how digital platforms and -infrastructures forms the foundation of contemporary business operating and innovation arrangements. In particular, he has the past years related the general theoretical insights into digital infrastructure innovation to the context of infrastructures based on distributed ledger technologies providing collectively agreed means of digital value exchange. He has had a keen interest in understanding the digital transformation impact on work since the early 2000s. He has extensive EU research project experience from 1992 and international project experience from 1990. He served 1996-2006 as Research Director of Laboratorium for Interaction Technology at Trollhättan Uddevalla University (Sweden), and since 2014 Visiting Professor at University West, Sweden.  Carsten’s research is published widely, for example in MIS Quarterly, ISR, ISJ, JIT, Information & Organization, The Information Society, CSCW Journal, and the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He was for a decade Senior Editor for The Information Systems Journal. He has supervised and co-supervised 20 PhD students to completion and acted as examiner at 32 PhD vivas. Carsten has been actively engaged as advisor and executive educator with a range of organisations. Carsten convened the first LSE course dedicated to distributed ledger technology — an online certificate course in cryptocurrency disruption, and was instrumental in the LSE signing up to run a Hedera.com node.  Carsten served as a member of the Board of Directors of LSE Enterprise, and he is a Non-Executive Co-Founder and Board Advisor for RedGirraffe.com and  MyTaskBar.com . He also in the past served as a member of the Advisory Board for the iSociety project at The Work Foundation and Academic Advisor for The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity. Carsten has since the late 80s been actively engaged as consultant and executive educator.  A very small sample of these are; Google, Microsoft, PA Consulting Group, IMF, Orange, Intel, Vodafone, AXA, Mastercard, Gartner, The Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (consortium of large organisations), Skype, Telenor, UBS, LloydsGroup, Prudential, The Danish Ministry of Science, EDS, UBS, GEMS, Carphone Warehouse. Carsten has a BSc in Mathematics (01/1985), a BSc in Computer Science (08/1986), a MSc in Computer Science (01/1989), and a PhD in Information Systems (02/1993) from the Aalborg University in Denmark. He is fluent in spoken and written Danish and English, fluent in spoken Swedish and has some knowledge of spoken German and French. Expertise: digital infrastructures; digital innovation; distributed ledger technologies, blockchain, crypto currencies, non-fungible tokens, information services automation; mobile platforms; mobile technologies; the future of work

Dr Christian Busch is the bestselling author of Connect the Dots: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck , which has been highlighted as a "wise, exciting, and life-changing book" (Arianna Huffington) that offers "excellent practical guidance for all" (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever). He is a Visiting Fellow at LSE, and the Director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University, where he teaches on purpose-driven leadership, entrepreneurship, emerging markets, and (social) innovation. Previously, he served as Inaugural Deputy Director at the LSE's Innovation Center. He is the co-founder of Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators, as well as of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening leading CEOs. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Business Venturing, and was among others featured by Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Fast Company, BBC, and Forbes. In 2016, he received the 'Best Paper Award' (Entrepreneurship) of Emerald Publishing, and the 'Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award' of the Academy of Management. Christian is among Diplomatic Courier’s 'Top 99 Influencers', JCI's 'Ten Outstanding Persons', and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are led." He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Forum and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He frequently speaks at conferences such as the World Economic Forum, TED/TEDx, and Financial Times Sustainability Summit. In 2015, Christian gave the LSE Commencement Address.  Christian previously worked in business and consulting in Mexico, Germany, the UK, and the US. He has served as Senior Advisor at multinational companies and the National Entrepreneurs Association, on Ashoka's Selection Panel, on the Global Shapers Steering Committee, and on the Jury of the African Entrepreneurship Award. He has guest-lectured at Stanford Business School, Peking University, IMD, and Strathmore, and in 2017, he received the LSE's "Outstanding Teacher" Award. Christian holds a PhD and Msc from the LSE.  Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Future of Business, Innovation, Purpose-driven Leadership, Serendipity, Social innovation

Ken Shadlen is Professor of Development Studies in the Department of International Development of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ken works on the comparative and international political economy of development, with a focus on understanding variation in national policy responses to changing global rules. In recent years Ken’s research has focused largely on the global and cross-national politics of intellectual property (IP). He is interested in the implications that the new global IP regime presents for late development, and the various ways that international norms for IP affect national practices. His book,  Coalitions and Compliance: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America , analyzes differences in how countries introduced pharmaceutical patents in the 1990s and then subsequently revised their new pharmaceutical patent systems in the 2000s. In an ESRC-funded project “TRIPS Implementation and Secondary Pharmaceutical Patenting” he examines how developing countries’ new pharmaceutical patent systems function in practice. Ken also works on the political economy of health and pharmaceutical policies, the dynamics of “North-South” trade agreements, and changing patterns of government-business relations and democratization.  From 2011-2020, he was one of the Managing Editors of  The Journal of Development Studies . Expertise:  Latin America; World Trade Organization (WTO); debt and developing countries; industrial policy; intellectual property rights; international institutions; patents; pharmaceuticals; politics; trade and industrial strategy

Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment (LSE). Before joining academia he held a senior management position in a think-tank. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the University of Oxford,  the University of St Andrews, Science Po Toulouse and the Inland University of Norway.  His research has included high-profile studies on the relationship between innovation and living standards, new frontiers of innovation policy, and on the characteristics of high-growth firms. His work has been featured in the media, including the FT, the Economist, BBC News, and the Today Programme (Radio 4). He has successfully delivered research projects for several government departments in the UK and elsewhere, international organisations such as the OECD and World Bank, city and regional governments, and innovation agencies such as Innovate UK. Expertise:  economic geography; local and regional development; innovation; SME finance; technological change; future of work; inequality; labour markets; inclusive growth

Marit is responsible for the creation and implementation of marketing and communication strategies at LSE Consulting. She has been working as a researcher, writer and producer in the film and TV industry for over seven years. Marit holds an MA in Film and Television Science and a BA in Communication and Information Science from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. She speaks native Dutch, is fluent in English and has working knowledge of German and Spanish.