Date: Tuesday, June 25
Time: 3.30pm – 5pm
Language: English
Room: 10East (School of Management Building) – Room 0.17
Description:
By reflecting on experiences from past research programs, this session will explore how interdisciplinary, engaged management scholarship can help address society’s most pressing grand challenges.
Steve Brammer, Professor, Dean of the School of Management and Vice-President for Planning & Strategy at the University of Bath
Professor Steve Brammer currently serves as both the Dean of the School of Management and Vice-President for Planning & Strategy at the University of Bath. He spent the first eleen years of his academic career at Bath before taking up senior positions at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham in the UK, and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. An economist by training, Professor Brammer holds BA (Hons), MA, and PhD degrees in economics from the University of East Anglia.
Steve is recognised globally for his research in the fieldsof corporate social responsibility, corporate reputation, stakeholder management, and sustainability. His research focuses on business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability with an emphasis on firm-staeholder relationships, the strategic management of these, and corresponding impacts on organizational performance and reputation.
Kathrin Moeslein, Professor and Vice President at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Kathrin M. Moeslein, Vice President at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), is professor of information systems with a focus on innovation and value creation at FAU’s School of Business, Economics and Society. She has held various roles, including as associate director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) at the London Business School, as dean of research at FAU’s School of Business, Economics and Society, as a member of the Business School Panel of the UK Research Excellence Framework (UK REF), as vice president of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) and as vice president and president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), which appointed her as its first German fellow in 2015. She is currently a member of the German Rectors’ Conference’s Standing Committee on Transfer and Cooperation, a member of the Board at Leipziger Stiftung für Innovation und Technologietransfer, a member of the Strategy Committee of the Bavarian Research and Innovation Agency (BayFIA) and a research professor and academic director of the Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation (CLIC) at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Kathrin has been researching, teaching and consulting in the field of strategic innovation and innovation systems since the early 1990s. Her current research focuses on innovation strategies and technologies as well as innovation ecosystems.
Xiaolan Fu, Professor of Technology and International Development at University of Oxford
Xiaolan Fu (傅晓岚) is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development, Fellow of Green Templeton College and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Founder of OxValue.AI.
She was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and to the Governing Council of the UN’s Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries. She is also a member of the UN SDSN Leadership Council led by Jeffrey Sachs. She is winner of a 2021 Falling Walls Scientific Breakthrough Award, the 2019 winner of the CFA Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Award (CFA Insitute), the 2018 winner of the Best Journal Paper of the Year Award (European Academy of International Business), and the 2017 winner of the Best Paper Award (European Association of Management (EURAM) Innovation Strategic Interest Group).
Her research interests include innovation, technology and industrialisation; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in the UK/US.
She has published extensively in leading international journals independently or in collaboration with others. Her recent books include Innovation under the Radar (forthcoming), China’s Path to Innovation, China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and serves on the editorial boards of Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Technology Management, and four other international journals.
