Vito Albino is professor in Innovation and Project Management at the Politecnico di Bari in Italy. At the same university, he is the founder and director of the Knowledge Management Lab, co-founder of the Innovation Management Group, and, at the present, delegate vice-rector for the Industrial Liaison Office.
Vito is now also member of the board of Consiglio di Territorio Sud Continentale, a group of experts set up from the UniCredit S.p.A,, the largest Italian Bank, to sustain the development of the business sector in South Italy, and member of the board of MEDIS, an Italian technology district specialized in mechatronics.
After the master degree in mechanical engineering, Vito has been visiting researcher at the University of Cincinnati from 1986 to 1987 before to start his academic career as researcher at the University of Basilicata in 1988. He became associate professor at the same university and then he moved to the Politecnico di Bari as professor.
Visiting professor at University of South Florida (Tampa), he gave lectures and seminars in many universities in USA and in Europe.
In 2003 he co-founded the European Sustainability Group, a group of organizations, researchers and consultants in Europe who are actively working to create a sustainable world, through creatively learning together, sharing insights and developing practical capacity for sustainability in the organizations they work with.
From the same year he chaired for six years the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale at the Politecnico di Bari and from 2007 to 2009 he was the president of the Board of the Italian Association of Business Engineering (AiIG).
In 2003 Vito served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Ministry of University and Research for the internationalization of the Italian university system, and two years later as an expert of the European Union in the area Innovative Environment for the project Information Society Network (URBACT Programme).
In 2008 he was the Italian scientific coordinator of the research project “Sustainability Knowledge Integration Mechanisms (SKIMs) and Green Product Strategies in Canada and Italy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective” granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
In 2010 he has been co-director of the course “Sustainable Strategies and Operations” at the Columbia University and scientific responsible of the project “A review and synthesis of research on the use of alternative energy sources in cement manufacturing”, granted by the Network for Business Sustainability (Canada).
His research fields are related to innovation processes in production chains and industrial clusters with particular interest to environmental aspects.

Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, UAE
Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore
Advisor, Harvard International Negotiation Initiative, Harvard University
Yasar leads the PwC ME Government and Public Sector Group. Prior to joining PwC, Yasar was the Executive Dean of Dubai School of Government and a Fellow at John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Yasar also served as the Strategy Advisor at The Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum in Dubai (UAE).
Yasar worked as the Director of the Government Performance Directorate in the Prime Ministry of Jordan, and previously as the Head of Policy and Strategy in the Executive Council of the Dubai Government. Prior to moving to Dubai, Yasar worked as a Research Fellow in Cranfield School of Management in the UK. He is the author of numerous reports and papers on strategy and performance management.

Dr. Antti Lönnqvist is Dean of Faculty of Built Environment at Tampere University, Finland. He is also Co-Editor of Knowledge Management Research & Practice journal. His scholarly interests focus on the interplay between knowledge and management: how are knowledge-based assets managed and turned into value and, on the other hand,  how are information and knowledge used in managerial and leadership work?
Antti has published more than one hundred works including over fifty journal papers and several books. He is known for pragmatic, action-oriented research work in which new academic insights are created through hands-on development work of organisational management practices and tools. Antti’s publications can be accessed at: http://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=wyn-tCwAAAAJ&hl=fi&oi=ao .

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BA MA (Engineering) Oxford UK; PhD (Corp Strategy) Manchester Bus. Sch. UK
Served in experimental submarines before Oxford. After graduation, did reactor design and development work with Rolls-Royce & Associates on the UK nuclear submarine program. Moved to IBM as large account salesman and team leader, and then into strategy consulting.
Next to a career in investment banking – but quit commerce in 1971 to enter the Manchester PhD program. Thesis awarded the US Academy of Management AT Kearney Prize in 1980 and published as Industry Recipes (Blackwell 1989).
Served on the faculties of City University (London), York University (Toronto), UCLA, University of Glasgow, and the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Small Business at Rutgers (New Jersey).
After a year’s sabbatical with the Advanced Technology Program (US Department of Commerce) appointed Dean, School of Management, New York Institute of Technology and then Dean, School of Business and Technology, Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), New York. Retired April 2003.
Awarded, jointly with Robert Grant, the Strategic Management Society’s 2007 Best SMJ Paper Prize for the 1996 Special Issue on Knowledge.
Currently Svenska Handelsbanken Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University (Sweden), Visiting Professor ESADE/Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), Visiting Professor Cranfield School of Management, and Visiting Professor Open University Business School.