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Profiles

Sanjeev Khagram

Dean & Director General | Professor | Author

Sanjeev Khagram is Dean & Director General of the Thunderbird School of Global Management as well as a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of globalization, transnationalism, leadership, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, cross-sector innovation, public-private partnerships, inter-organizational networks, good governance, transparency, the global political economy, sustainable development, human security, and the data revolution.

Professor Khagram most recently led the establishment of the cross-sectoral Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and International Open Data Charter. He also previously founded and was the architect of the multi-stakeholder Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). Khagram was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and authored UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s Report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in 2009. He was dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Foundation and Trust from 2003- 2005, and he was Senior Policy and Strategy Director at the World Commission on Dams where he was the lead writer of the Commission’s widely acclaimed Final Report from 1998-2000. Khagram was the John Parke Young Professor of Global Political Economy, Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College from 2012–18.

Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, multilateral organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. He holds a bachelor’s in development studies and engineering, a master’s degree and doctoral degree minor in economics and doctorate in political economy, all from Stanford University.

Mark Esposito

Professor | Speaker | Author

Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought-leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to industry. Mark holds numerous senior positions at prestigious Institutes. He is a member of the teaching faculty at the Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education where he teaches Economic Strategy and Competitiveness. He also serves as a CoLeader at the Institutes Council for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at Harvard Business School.

Mark is a Professor of Business & Economics at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is an appointed Research Fellow in the Circular Economy Center, at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. He is also a Fellow for the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. Mark is the Co- Founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI Studio, dedicated to the productions of AI solutions.

He is a prolific author and his articles can be found on ResearchGate and his books on Amazon. Mark serves as a global expert for the World Economic Forum. He is the co-author of the best seller Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today’s Megatrends. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership.

Mark holds a PhD in Business and Economics from the International School of Management in Paris/ New York and an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in Paris.

Cheryl Heller

Designer | Trailblazer | Author

Cheryl Heller is the Director of Design Integration and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU, Heller founded the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and President of the design lab CommonWise. She was recently awarded a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, and is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA Medal for her contribution to the field of design. She founded the first design department in a major advertising agency and as president, grew the division to $50m in billings when it was spun off as an independent entity. As a strategist, she has helped grow businesses from small regional enterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs.

She has taught creativity to leaders and organizations around the world. Her clients have included Ford Motor Company, American Express, Reebok, Mariott International, Renaissance Hotels, Sheraton, MeadWestvaco, StoraEnso, the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Medtronic, Pfizer, Mars Corporation, Discovery Networks International, Cemex, Herman Miller, Gap, Bayer Corporation, Seventh Generation, L’Oreal, Elle Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The World Wildlife Fund, and Ford Foundation.

Heller is the former Board Chair of PopTech, and a Senior Fellow at the Babson Social Innovation Lab. Her book, The Intergalactic Design Guide, was published by Island Press in 2018.

Mansour Javidan

Founder, Idea Farm | Facilitator | Speaker | Author

Multiple award-winning executive educator and author whose teaching and research interests span the globe, Dr. Mansour Javidan received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He is the Garvin Distinguished Professor and Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute (www.globalmindset.com) at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.

Mansour is the Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the world-renowned research project on national culture and leadership, titled GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness). He is a coeditor of the 2004 GLOBE book, which won the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) “M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in The Workplace”. He is also a coauthor of the latest GLOBE book, published in August, 2014 which received the 2015 University of San Diego and International Leadership Association (ILA) leadership book award for “Scholarly Rigor and Critical Thought.” Mansour’s article on global leadership recently received the Decade’s Best Paper Award (2006- 2016) by the Academy of Management Perspectives. Dr. Javidan was recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world.

Dr. Javidan has been designated Expert Advisor (Global Leadership) by the World Bank and a Senior Research Fellow by the U.S. Army. He is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Leadership Association (http://www.ila-net.org/). He has designed and taught executive development courses and workshops, conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in 27 countries. His list of clients includes Abbott Labs, Accenture, Aditya Birla, Alstom, Statoil, BAE Systems, Bank Mandiri, BP, Cisco, Coachlear, Chevron, Commerzbank, Dell Computers, Europharma, MAGNA, Merck, Dow Chemical, Huawei, and Novartis.

Diana Bowman

Associate Dean | Professor | Carnegie Fellow

Diana M. Bowman is an Associate Professor in the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she serves as the Associate Dean for international engagement, and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she serves as the Associate Director for students. She is also a PluS Alliance Fellow (2016-2019) and team member of PlanetWorks in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

Her research analyzes and informs the development of smarter governance and regulation of innovation in order to simultaneously enhance creativity, improve public health, and stimulate deliberation of the ethical, legal, and societal dimensions of emerging technologies.

Diana is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (Class of 2018). She holds a Ph.D. in Law from Monash University a GDipLegPrac from The College of Law, Australia and an LLB from Monash University.

Rebeca Hwang

Founder | Instructurer | Lecturer | Consultant

Prior to co-founding Rivet Ventures, Rebeca Hwang cofounded YouNoodle, Cleantech Open, and Startup Nations Summit.

Rebeca was educated at MIT and Stanford and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and as one of the top 35 under 35 Global Innovators by MIT Tech Review. Rebeca also serves on the Global Board of Kauffman’s GEN and the WEF’s Global Council on the Future of Migrations. She teaches Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University and is an inventor holding multiple patents.

Rebeca was born in Seoul, raised in Argentina and educated in the US, and has worked closely with several countries on their national startup programs, including Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, Iceland, Chile and Mexico, where she is a member of the Access to Capital committee of the Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council.

Recently listed by Forbes as one of their 20 inspiring young female founders to follow on Twitter and is a frequent speaker at global conferences on entrepreneurship and women leadership.

Ulrich Jensen

Professor | Innovator | Researcher

Ulrich Jensen is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Organizational Research and Design at Arizona State University. He joined ASU in 2016 from Aarhus University in Denmark where he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science.

Dr. Jensen specializes in public management and organization behavior. His research interests span issues of leadership, motivation, values and performance in public service. His recent contributions focus on the behavioral implications of prosocial motivation and are either published or forthcoming in top-tier field journals such as Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and Public Administration. Together with colleagues, Dr. Jensen recently published a new measurement instrument for transformational and transactional leadership in Administration & Society.

His research builds on new and innovative ways to understand the importance of leadership in shaping the attitudes of public service providers and the performance of their organizations. Examples include combining survey and register data, collecting repeated measures at multiple points in time, and conducting a large-scale field experiment with public and private managers. His current work uses these approaches to examine which strategies make leaders most effective in motivating their employees and conveying values in their organizations.

His research is regularly presented at the Public Management Research Association Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, International Research Society for Public Management Conference, and was recently recognized among some of the best offered by young scholars at the 2016 European Group for Public Administration Conference.

Tom Hunsaker

Associate Dean | Director | Author

Tom Hunsaker is associate dean of innovation for the world’s top-ranked global management school, Thunderbird School of Global Management (a unit of Arizona State University), where he has taught in the areas of competitive and global strategy, performance leadership, and organizational consulting.

Hunsaker is also academic director of Thunderbird Applied Learning which delivers engagements that involve either extensive simulations or team-based, client-facing, projectdriven consulting experiences. Client-facing project-based engagements require the dynamic application of interdisciplinary material to real-world, real-time organizational challenges. Through the program’s capstone experiences (TEMLab and Global Consulting Laboratory) student-driven strategic consulting engagements have aided Fortune 500’s, Small & Medium Enterprises, Social Enterprises, Non-Profits, Governments, and Foundations in over 30 countries on five continents.

Hunsaker has authored prominent work in innovation management, behavioral strategy, leadership, and higher education. He is co-author of the Bridger™ model, originally published in Harvard Business Review, which outlines how people best serve as conduits for innovative ideas in organizations. Among his other noted work is Mindset Positioning™, which highlights why similarly talented people get dramatically different results from the same activities – and what organizations are to do about it.

Hunsaker’s work has appeared in many practitioner and scholarly outlets including Harvard Business Review, Business & Economy, Financial Times, Research in Higher Education, Learning in Higher Education, BizEd and on Businessweek, Bloomberg, and Business & Economy online, among others.

Hunsaker enjoys extensive global experience. He has consulted for companies (ranging in size from Fortune 500 to start-up) operating in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He has a particular expertise in Latin America (Spanish fluent) where he has been a visiting professor at the top-ranked graduate business school in Ecuador (USFQ).

As a trainer and speaker he has addressed audiences on four continents in diverse sectors, including: consumer goods, energy, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecom. He lives with his wife and children in Arizona where they enjoy the outdoors as much as possible.

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