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Leif Edvinsson
(Participant) Adjunct Professor of Intelectual Capital, Professor - IIIEE Lund University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sweden, China

Professor Leif Edvinsson holds an MBA from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley USA. He is the author of numerous articleson the service industry and on Intellectual Capital. He is a speaker at such organisations as the Conference Board, OECD, HarvardBusiness School, Sorbonne, KM Forum in Japan, Learntec inGermany, the American Productivity Centre etc. He is listed inWho’s Who in the world. Also associate member of The Club of Rome.Cofounder of and chairman of the New Club of Paris, focused on theKnowledge Economy initiatives.
In January 1998, Leif received the prestigious Brain Trust "Brain ofthe Year" award, UK.
In 2006 appeared in a book as one of The 50 most importantand influential thinkers in the World, by London Business Press.
In March 1997, together with Michael S. Malone, he launched one of thevery first books on Intellectual Capital "Realizing Your Company's TrueValue by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower" describing the evolution of ICin practice.
Leif’s publication from 2000 “Corporate Longitude – Navigating theKnowledge Economy” offers different ways of looking at thecorporate longitude problem. He believes that it is only through newperspectives that we can gain new insights and it is only through newperspectives that we will be able to chart the uncertain waters of ourfutures.
His recent publication 2005 together with professor A. Bounfour, Paris,has the title; ”Intellectual Capital for Communities, Nations, Regionsand Cities” as the critical external structural capital for the humancapital growth.
Leif is on the Board of Directors of several knowledge intensiveenterprises among others the Swedish Brain Research Foundation as wellas the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2000 he has been the Honorary Chairmanof the UK based Henley KM Forum. Cofounder of several enterprisesfocused on IC in several countries in Europe.
Since 2000, he has been the world´s first Professor, adjunct atLund University on Intellectual Capital. In January 2006, he was alsoappointed professor adj. at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He was formerly Vice President and the world´s first CorporateDirector of Intellectual Capital at Skandia a global financial serviceenterprise. Professor Edvinsson was earlier Senior Vice Presidentfor Training and Development of S-E Bank, and President and Chairman ofConsultus AB, a Stockholm-based consulting company. In light of hiswork in both training and Intellectual Capital, Professor Edvinsson has been a key contributor to the theory of IC and hasoverseen the creation of the world's first corporate IntellectualCapital Annual Report. During 1996 he was recognised with awards fromthe American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and BusinessIntelligence, UK, for his pioneering work on IC. He was also awardedThe KEN Practitioner of the Year 2004, from Entovation International ,where he also is an E 100.
Professor Edvinsson has been a special advisor on service trade to theSwedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as Ministry of Industry, aspecial advisor to the United Nations International Trade Centre and isa co-founder of the Swedish Coalition of Service Industries. Recentlyduring 2004 he was one of the prime advisors for the German Ministry ofEconomics on IC Reporting. He has participated in several EuropeanCommission projects and is now also one of the High Level Expertsworking for the European Commission on guidance for IC reporting 2005. He has also been very active in transfer his experiences toAsia, working with among others METI inJapan.
See more www.corporatelongitude.com, www.intellectualcapital.se,
www.bottomline.se and www.wissenskapital.info