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Speakers' Bio

• CHAY Yue Wah
• CHUNG Wai Keung
• Serafin D. TALISAYON
• Dieter ERNST
• Hans-Dieter EVERS
• Michael FERRILL
• Jann HIDAJAT TJAKRAATMADJA
• Kenneth HUANG
• Kong-Rae LEE
• Kathleen Yi Jia LOW
• Poornima LUTHRA
• Thomas MENKHOFF
• Suparb PASONG
• Gopinathan R
• Michael RIGGS
• Waltraut RITTER
• James ROBINS
• Agung WICAKSONO
• Peter Charles WOODS
• Holger ZAHN

 

CHAY Yue Wah Associate Professor UniSIM

CHAY Yue Wah is an Associate Professor in UniSIM. He was an Associate Professor of Psychology at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published internationally referred papers in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Human Relations, British Journal of Management, Group and Organisational Behaviour, International Journal of Human Resource, Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, and the Journal of International Small Business, among others. Together with Hans-Dieter Evers and Thomas Menkhoff, he is one of the founding members of SMU's Knowledge Force.

CHUNG Wai Keung Assistant Professor of Sociology School of Social Sciences Singapore Management University

Wai-Keung CHUNG is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. An organisation and economic sociologist, Chung has published in the area of Chinese business organisation and business practices. He is currently studying the emergence of science parks in Asia and on how Chinese business practices influence knowledge transfer in the knowledge-based economy.

For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.

Email: wkchung@smu.edu.sg

Dieter ERNST Senior Fellow East-West Center, Honolulu

 

Hans-Dieter EVERS Professor and Senior Research Fellow Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn

Hans-Dieter EVERS is Professor of Development Planning and Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. Formerly he was Professor and Chairman, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He received his D.Phil. degree from the University of Freiburg and subsequently taught sociology at Monash University ( Australia ) and at Yale University (USA), where he was also Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies. From 1971 to 74 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Singapore. He also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University, the National University of Malaysia, the Science University of Malaysia (Penang), the EHESS (Paris), Trinity College ( Oxford ), the University of Hawaii and the National University of Singapore. During 2003 to 2006 he held visiting appointments as Professor of Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He also served (among others) as consultant to ILO, GTZ, UNESCO, the World Bank and KfW-German Development Bank. Currently he is engaged in research on social and cultural dimensions of knowledge based economies and knowledge governance.

His recent book publications are Southeast Asian Urbanism (with R. Korff), Singapore: ISEAS 2000; Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia (with T. Menkhoff and Y.W. Chay), New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific 2005; and The Straits of Malacca, Berlin and London: LIT forthcoming 2008.

For his full biography, please refer to his homepage here.

Email: hdevers@uni-bonn.de

Michael FERRILL OTR Lead Facilitator Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Michael FERRILL has 25 years management experience in Supply Chain and Production Management within the UK military and the private sector, and strategic consultancy with Singaporean SMEs. He holds a Bachelors degree in Management Science, Masters degree in Logistics and Transportation Management, and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations. He is also a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators In late 2002 he pioneered the development of the Operation and Technology Roadmapping initiative within SIMTech to help SMEs develop roadmaps. The initiative was subsequently adopted across all Research Institutes of A-Star's Science and Engineering Council (SERC) with close to 100 companies passing through the scheme. To-date he has personally completed more than 50 roadmapping exercises with companies from a variety of industry sectors with annual turnovers between approx S$1 and S$500 million (between 20 and more than 10,000 employees). He has also pioneered the use of roadmapping techniques within the SERC family at several management retreats and annual planning exercises.

Jann HIDAJAT TJAKRAATMADJA Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs School of Business and Management Institut Teknologi Bandung (SBM ITB) Indonesia

Jann HIDAJAT TJKRAATMADJA is a Professor in Knowledge Management and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung (SBM ITB), Indonesia. He accomplished his Ph.D. (2002), as well as his bachelor degree (1978), in Industrial Engineering from ITB. He obtained his M.Sc. (1982) also in Industrial Engineering from Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1994. He has written a number of books in the areas of technology management, human resource management and, most recently knowledge management in the context of learning organisation. Over 40 of his papers have appeared in national scientific journals, and has presented over 30 times in seminar and conferences. Prof. Jann is a member of the Indonesian Production and Operations Management Society, and currently the President of Knowledge Management Society Indonesia (KMSI) which he co-founded in 2007. KMSI is a not-for-profit organisation aimed at being KM-enabler through research, socialisation and implementation of knowledge management in Indonesia.

Kenneth HUANG Assistant Professor Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University

Dr. Kenneth HUANG is an Assistant Professor of Management at Singapore Management University (SMU), Lee Kong Chian School of Business and a Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. In addition to his undergraduate and graduate teachings at SMU, he has taught Executive MBA (Sloan Fellows Program), MBA, undergraduates from the Sloan School and Harvard University, as well as Master's and Ph.D. students from Engineering Systems Division at MIT. He has published several journal articles and frequently presents in leading conferences and research seminars around the world on topics related to technology management, innovation policy and scientific entrepreneurship, especially in life sciences and biotechnology. He also brings with him a wealth of consulting, start-up and high-tech industry experiences. He earned his Ph.D. (Technology Management and Policy) and M.S. (Technology and Policy) from MIT; and B.S. (with honors) in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in the United States.

For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.

Email: kennethhuang@smu.edu.sg

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Kong-Rae LEE Senior Research Fellow and Director Science and Technology Policy Institute

Kong-Rae LEE obtained his D.Phil. in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU, Sussex University , Brighton in 1993.

He is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Director at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, Editor-in-chief of Asian Journal of Technology Innovation and member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST).

Email: leekr@stepi.re.kr

Kathleen Yi Jia LOW Graduate Student City University of Hong Kong

LOW Yi Jia (Kathleen) is a graduate student at the City University of Hong Kong. She received her Masters of Commerce (International Business) degree from the University of New South Wales and her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on innovation and knowledge transfer in China, and she is involved in a large-scale multi-year data collection under the sponsorship of the Hong Kong government research council. In 2007, she was co-author of a paper that won the best paper award at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference: “New Frontiers In Entrepreneurship: Strategy, Governance and Evolution”. Ms. Low also has worked in industry as an international development manager and a product development manager.

Thomas MENKHOFF Practice Associate Professor Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University

Thomas MENKHOFF is Practice Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He has taught organisational behavior, knowledge management, human resource management, sociology of business, management and development, project cycle management and research methods at the National University of Singapore (1993-1995, 1998-2001), Cologne University, Germany (1990-1993) and Bielefeld University, Germany (1989-1990). Dr. Menkhoff has received research / conference grants and fellowships from the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the European Community, the National University of Singapore, the Freeman Foundation and the Singapore Management University. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar.

For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.

Email: thomasm@smu.edu.sg

Suparb PASONG Researcher Member of Thailand Creative and Design Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Suparb PASONG, a Thai with a background in sociology, researches in the human dimensions of global environmental change, in particular, institutions and environmental governance. He is associated with an international research group known as Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~idgec, based at University of California at Santa Babara, California. Until recently he taught environment and development at several universities in Thailand, including Prince of Songkla and Walailak. He also occasionally serves as a consultant with UNDP and ESCAP working on water governance and knowledge management for development. He is also a member of Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) http://www.tcdc.or.th/, one of the Thai government's knowledge management organisations.

Email: pasong@mac.com

Gopinathan R Deputy Director Public Service Centre for Organisational Excellence Civil Service College

Gopinathan R is the Deputy Director with the college. He is experienced in developing and implementing information and knowledge management systems for Private and Public Service organisations. He is a certified corporate KM trainer by Knowledge Associates Ltd, Cambridge UK and an adjunct lecturer for the Master of Science (Knowledge Management) programme jointly launched by Nanyang Technological University and Civil Service College. He is also a certified knowledge manager by The Knowledge and Innovation Management Professional Society (USA). His recent achievements include the development of a KM roadmap for the Singapore Public Service. A speaker at several knowledge management conferences and seminars, Gopi is often called upon as a resource person for KM within the Singapore Public Service.

Email: gopguppy@yahoo.com.sg

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Michael RIGGS Information Management Specialist Food and Agriculture Organisation United Nations

Michael RIGGS joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in 2001 and now leads FAO's efforts in Asia-Pacific to enhance the ability of individuals and communities to improve the efficiency, quality, and relevance of information and knowledge exchange among the various stakeholder groups involved in rural development, food security and poverty reduction. He provides strategic assistance to national and regional information centres with a strong emphasis on the appropriate application of information and communication technologies (ICTs). He is active in information needs assessment, fostering international cooperation, and managing the implementation of specialised information systems for field projects. He fosters partnerships with governments, donor agencies, NGOs, community-level groups, etc. He also manages the regional implementation of FAO's internal knowledge and information exchange strategies.

Previously he developed and implemented a system for digital information management for the Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific (APHCA).

Prior to that, Mr. Riggs worked in the private sector with responsibility for new project development and coordination of information flows between international partners.

Mr. Riggs has a Masters of Arts degree in International Economics and Finance from Chulalongkorn University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Email: Michael.Riggs@fao.org

Waltraut RITTER Managing Partner and Research Director Knowledge Enterprises

Waltraut RITTER is managing partner and research director of Knowledge Enterprises, which she founded in Hong Kong in 1997, specialising in research and advisory services relating to innovation, knowledge, intellectual capital. Her research interests are: epistemology of knowledge, sociology of knowledge, intellectual capital/intellectual property assessment, innovation and knowledge management strategies, innovation cluster and R&D networks in Asia.

She holds teaching and research assignments at in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the City University of Kong and is Visiting Faculty at International School of Information Management at the University of Mysore, India. In 1999, she was Professor for Knowledge Management at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

She holds an M.A. in information science and sociology from the Free University of Berlin ( Germany ), and an M.B.A. from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is member of the Academy of International Business, the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association and is a fellow of the 21st Century Trust. She is also the founding president of the HK Knowledge Management Forum and Society, a non-profit association for information and knowledge management professionals. Since 1999, she has been the programme director for one of the most established KM events in the region, the annual Asia Pacific Knowledge Management conference series.

James ROBINS Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research) Lee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University

James ROBINS is a current faculty member of the Singapore Management University.

For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.

Email: jrobins@smu.edu.sg

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Agung WICAKSONO Lecturer Institut Teknologi Bandung (SBM ITB) Indonesia

Agung WICAKSONO is currently lecturing part-time at SBM ITB and a visiting associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore. He finished his Ph.D. dissertation (2007) at the Asia Research Centre (ARC), University of St. Gallen in Switzerland on corporate governance of state-owned enterprises in Southeast Asia. Initially trained as an engineer at ITB with bachelor degree (2000) in Industrial Engineering, he also obtained a double degree of M.Sc. and MBA in International Management from Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) and Northern Institute of Technology Management (NIT), both in Hamburg, Germany in 2002. Prior to being an academic, he was a management consultant at consulting firms in Southeast Asia (Ernst & Young Jakarta and AT Kearney Southeast Asia) and German-speaking part of Europe (Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Hamburg ). His research areas are corporate governance, cross-cultural management and political economy of state-owned enterprises in Southeast Asia.

Email: agung.wicaksono@unisg.ch

Peter Charles WOODS Motorola Chair of Knowledge Management Multimedia University Malaysia

Dr. WOODS was appointed the Motorola Chair of Knowledge Management, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia in 2001. He is Head of the Knowledge Management Centre at Multimedia University, and responsible for postgraduate research and courses in Knowledge Management and e-Learning. He was Chairman of the Centre of Excellence for e-Learning at MMU.

He has worked in S.E.Asia for over twenty five years, as a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, and as Professor of Architecture at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

His other research and consultancy interests span low energy design, project management, and teaching and learning theory.

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