briefly about me

 
 

Reader in Information Systems and Innovation within Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. In 2001 I initiated the mobility@lse research network, which aims at drawing together academics and practitioners with an interest in studying the profound changes to society, individuals and technologies in the mobile society of the 21st Century. I have a BSc. in mathematics, an MSc in computer science and a Ph.D. in information systems all from Aalborg University, Denmark. My research is documented in a number of publications. For a selection of electronic downloads, please visit Mobility@lse. For a full list of references, please see my CV.


I have since 1989 been affiliated with a number of Danish, Swedish and British institutions as both lecturer and researcher. I have since 1990 worked in international research projects and since 1992 in EU funded research projects. Since 1997 I have been associated with University West, Sweden, doing research in large regional development projects funded by the European Union, Swedish funding agencies and local industries and public organisations with a combined research portfolio of over £4 million. I played an essential role in the founding of the Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden in the Mid-90s. I was here also one of the co-founders of The Internet Project (1995-2000) resulting in the book Planet Internet. I am Senior Editor of the Information Systems Journal, Associate Editor for Journal of the AIS and the e-Service Journal. I am on the editorial board for Information and Organization and a member of the Advisory Board for Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. I have served as organiser, chair, associate editor, track chair, track co-coordinator etc for a number of international conferences, for example IFIP 8.2 in 2005.


I am Academic Advisor for The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity (www.iii-p.org), member of the Amsphere Expert Panel, a member of the Scientific Board for the Digital Terrestrial Television Observatory at The Fondazione Universita IULM, Milan, Italy, and served as a member of the Advisory Board for the iSociety project at The Work Foundation. I serve as consultant and executive educator with a range of organisations, for example, Microsoft, Orange, Intel, Vodafone, AXA, Gartner, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (18 industry partners, such as Vodafone, Orange, BT, Thales, Alcatel-Lucent), Skype, The Danish Ministry of Science, EDS, UBS, Carphone Warehouse, CSC, BOX, PA Consulting, The National School of Government UK, Fjord, The European Union Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OAMI), Siemens, Caja Madrid, BDG Workfutures, The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), SeymourPowell, Freud Communications, 3 UK, YouGov, AugustOne, Emap, Computer Associates, Mitel, Edelmann, Surfkitchen, Grant Butler Coomber, Cnet, KMD, Brands2Life, Nykredit, Netonomy, Inferno, Hill & Knowlton, Murmur Research, County Surveyors Society (CSS) UK, BAT, Business Objects, CommerceOne, Intranet Benchmarking Forum, and Visanti.