Award Advisory Board (Ambassadors)

Prof. Leif Edvinsson

• Winner of the European Award for Innovation Thought Leadership 2013
• World’s first Chief Knowledge Officer and “Brain of the Year“ 1998
• World’s First Professor for Intellectual Capital, University of Lund, Sweden
• Founder and CEO of UNIC - Universal Networking Intellectual Capital AB
• Founder of “First Future Center“
• President of “The New Club of Paris“

Søren B. Henriksen

• Former CEO of the Danish Chamber of Commerce
• Lawyer at the Danish Supreme Court
• Founder and former President of European Round Table for Business Related Services, Brussels
• Former member of steering committee of The Danish Employers Organization
• Former Vice President of EuroCommerce Organization, Brussels.
• Former President of EuroCommerce Employers Organization, Brussels
• Former President of the Danish Athletics Federaton

 Prof. DI Günter Koch

• President of the Humboldt-Cosmos-Multiversity, Tenerife, Canary Islands
• Ex-General Secretary of “The New Club of Paris“ and former Head of the European Software Institute, Bilbao
• Affiliated with the Vienna-based Knowledge Management Associates/Academy/Association and its cooperation partner “execupery“
• Former CEO of the Austrian Research Center (ARC) in Seibersdorf, today called Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria’s largest applied research organization
• Adj. Professor at Graz University of Technology and Guest Professor at Danube University, both Austria
• Decorated with the “Cross of Honor 1st Class in Science & Art” of the Republic of Austria for achievements in rebuilding the applied science infrastructure in Austria, and the Victor-Kaplan Medal for Outstanding Innovation.

Markku Markkula

• President of the European Committee of Regions (CoR)
• Vice Chairman of the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG)
• Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Information Society Development Center TIEKE
• Member of the EU Committee of the Regions, CoR for 2010-2014 as member of commission for Education, Youth, Culture and Research and Commission for Economic and Social Policy ECOS
• CoR rapporteur on Digital Agenda for Europe
• Advisor within Aalto University to Aalto Presidents
• Former director of the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli of University of Technology in Helsinki

Guy Kempfert

• Global Head People and Organizational Development Straumann AG, Basel
• President European Corporate Learning Association
• Former Senior Vice President Institute for School Assessment, Zürich
• Former Global Head Learning & Development Syngenta
• Former Headmaster Gymnasium Liestal, Switzerland

Peter Pawlowsky

• Professor for Personnel Management and Leadership studies
• Director at the Research Institute for Organizational Competence and Strategy (FOKUS) at Chemnitz University of Technology
• Co-founder and President of the Society for Knowledge Management 2001-2003
• Director “Executive“ Master of Knowledge Management program at Chemnitz University of Technology

Prof. James Powell

• Emeritus Professor of Academic Enterprise and UK Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship in higher Education
• Director of both UPBEAT & Smart City Futures
• Officer of the most excellent order of the British Empire for services for Science and Engineering Education
• Time Higher Award winner for Leadership in Technology Transfer and Engagement 2010
• Time Higher Award winner for Community Engagement 2004

Anne Kjaer Riechert

• Co-Founder and CEO of ReDi School of Digital Integration 2015 in Berlin
• Founder of Peace Innovation Lab in Berlin in collaboration with Stanford University
• Founder of humanitarian project "Kids have a Dream"
• Entrusted with Rotary Peace Fellowship Japan
• Consultant of Social Corporate Responsibility in various companies in Scandinavia
• 2006 graduate from KaosPilot Denmark

Diego Sanchez de Leon

• Senior Executive at Accenture, responsible for talent & organization performance in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America
• Human Capital Leader for Spain, Portugal and Israel
• Member of Spanish GEO Council and its advisory board
• Chairman of the board of Accenture Human Capital Management Solutions

Prof. Dr. Wim Veen

• Emeritus Professor for development of learning systems at University of Technology, Faculty of Technology and Management in Delft, Netherlands
• Consultant for educational institutions for private companies and governmental authorities
• Member of Dutch National eLearning Award
• His research focuses on new concepts and strategies for ICT enhanced learning in private companies and regular education institutions

Prof. Dagmar Woyde Köhler

• Executive Director of New & Able Management- und Organisationsberatung GmbH
• Former Managing Director of EnBWAkademie GmbH
• Chief Learning Officer 2008 for implementing a most successful strategy for further education and for introducing Intellectual Capital Reporting for Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
• Former Director of Human Resources at Badenwerk AG
• Manager of “Science, Education, Youth, Art and Athletics“ department as Ministerial Counselor for the state of Baden Württemberg
• Member of the “Ethics Commission“, the “European Corporate Learning Forum“ and directing “MINDKISS“ project, which opens up new ways of experiencing art, science and philosophy

Corinna Pregla

• Professional artistic career as classical singer and moderator with broad experiences at the international cultural scene
• Graduate of the international EMAA Studies (II), University of Zürich
• Member of the Villa Vigoni, Italian-German Center of European Excellence
• Representative of the Federal German Initiative "365 Venues in Land of Ideas", under the patronage of the Federal President of Germany
• Ph.d student for Cultural Management at Conservatory Weimar
• Regual guest at Deutsche Akademie "Villa Massimo" in Rome