Mobile for Good Summit Speaker Biographies
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Mobile for Good Summit Speaker Biographies Vittorio Colao Vodafone Group Plc, Chief Executive Vittorio Colao, aged 51, holds a Business Degree cum Laude from Bocconi University and an MBA with Honours from Harvard Business School. He spent the early part of his career working for Morgan Stanley in London, for Mondadori, the Italian publisher, and for McKinsey in Italy. He was a Partner with McKinsey until 1996, working in the media, telecommunications and industrial goods sectors and was also responsible for heading the Finance practice and consultant recruitment. Vittorio joined Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italy) as Chief Operating Officer in 1996. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1999, and Regional CEO, Southern Europe for Vodafone Group Plc. in 2001, following the acquisition of the business. He became a member of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Group Plc. in 2002 and was subsequently appointed Regional CEO for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2003. In 2004, he left Vodafone to become Chief Executive Officer of RCS MediaGroup, the leading Italian publishing company. He returned to Vodafone Group Plc in 2006 as Chief Executive Officer, Europe and Deputy Group CEO, and as a member of the Board of Directors. Vittorio was then appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc in July 2008. Vittorio has been a non-executive Director and member of the Remuneration Committee of RAS Insurance, then listed on the Milan stock Exchange (now merged with Allianz SE), and was previously a non-executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Finmeccanica, the Italian listed defence and aerospace conglomerate. During his tenure at RCS, he was also a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of the European Oncology Institute in Milan. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Fondazione CAF in Milan (a charity active with children under legal protection) and is also a member of the International Advisory Board of Bocconi University. 1 Nick Land Chairman, Vodafone Foundation Nick retired as Executive Chairman of Ernst & Young LLP and Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Northern Europe, India, Middle East and Africa Region in 2006 after 36 years with the firm. He holds positions on a number of boards including as non- executive director and chairman of the audit and risk committees of Vodafone Group plc, Alliance Boots GmbH, BBA Aviation plc and Ashmore Group plc. Nick is Chairman of the board of trustees of both the Vodafone Group Foundation and Farnham Castle and is a member of the National Gallery’s Finance and Audit Committees. Professor Sir Andrew Likierman Dean, London Business School Professor Sir Andrew Likierman is Dean of London Business School. He is also non-executive Chairman of the National Audit Office and a non-executive Director of Barclays Bank Plc. Andrew was Founding Director of the Executive MBA programme and has been a Professor at the School for many years, lecturing on all the major executive and degree programmes. His career has spanned work in the public and private sectors with experience that includes working as Head of the Government Accountancy Service and as Managing Director of the UK Treasury. He has held many non-executive posts including MORI, the Bank of England and is a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Kamalini Ramdas Professor of Management Science and Operations, London Business School An internationally regarded teacher and researcher, Kamalini Ramdas is The Deloitte Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School. Professor Ramdas’ research focuses on creating value through service innovation and operational innovation. She has published widely in the leading business journals and has a forthcoming article on innovation in service delivery in the Harvard Business Review. Her research has received several awards and grants 2 including from the US Economic and Social Research Council; Buchanan Fund; Sloan Foundation; and Marketing Science Institute. Professor Ramdas teaches on the Executive MBA and MBA programmes at London Business School and on a number of its leading executive education programmes. In 2010 and 2011, she was joint organiser of conferences at London Business School on innovation in healthcare delivery, and innovation in operations. Professor Ramdas received a BSc in Mathematics from St Stephen's College, Delhi; an MSc in Operations Research, from the University of Delaware; and a PhD in Operations Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Rajesh Chandy Professor of Marketing at London Business School Rajesh Chandy holds the Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship and is a Professor of Marketing at London Business School. Professor Chandy’s agenda-setting research focuses on innovation, technology management, emerging markets, and marketing strategy. Fortune magazine described his findings on innovation as "an unorthodox and bracing set of management principles". He was a member of the US Secretary of Commerce Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy, serves on the brain trust of the Global Innovation Forum, and was a member of the American Marketing Association’s Academic Council and its Knowledge Development Coalition. He has provided advisory and executive education services to Toshiba, St. Jude Medical, 3M, Philips, Commonwealth Microfinance Limited, American Medical Systems, Hutchinson Technology, Microsoft, Mundipharma, Rexam, Wrigley, GfK, Futuredontics, Novo Nordisk, Deutsche Telekom, Bertelsmann, and Telenor, among others. At London Business School, he teaches MBA electives on Managing and Marketing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, and is faculty director of the executive program on Market Driving Strategies. 3 Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Professor Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and the school is the leading centre of interdisciplinary research on key global challenges. Until 2006 Ian was Vice President of the World Bank and the Bank’s Director of Policy. From 1996 to 2001 Ian was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and adviser to President Nelson Mandela. Previously Goldin was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and Program Director at the OECD Development Centre in Paris. Born in South Africa, Goldin has a BA (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a MA and Doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has published 16 books, the most recent of which are "Globalisation for Development: Meeting New Challenges" (Oxford University Press, 2012) and his widely acclaimed "Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future" (Princeton University Press, 2011). Goldin has made wide ranging contributions to development, for which he has been knighted by the French Government and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He is a Trustee of Comic Relief, the Overseas Development Institute and other institutions. 4 John Micklethwait Editor-in-Chief, The Economist John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan between 1985 and 1987 before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987. His previous roles at The Economist included being the newspaper's business editor and United States editor. The Economist now has a weekly print circulation of around 1.5 million worldwide, with 100,000 digital subscribers. John has appeared on radio and television around the world and co- authored with Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist, five books: "The Witch Doctors", "A Future Perfect", "The Company", "The Right Nation" and "God is Back". He was named Editors' Editor by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2010. He is a trustee of the British Museum. Robert Madelin Director-General for DG CONNECT: Communications Networks, Content and Technology Robert Madelin is the Director-General responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe. Robert was educated in England at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. Born in 1957, a British civil servant since 1979, Robert has served in the Commission since 1993: in his current post since 2010; as Director General for Health and Consumer Policies from 2004 to 2010; on trade and investment policy before that. Dr Mike Lynch Founder of Autonomy Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng has long been regarded as a visionary figure within the technology world, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of European software” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He advises the Prime Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and Technology. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest-growing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. Dr Lynch has founded or 5 advised numerous companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx. Dr Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC, the British Library, and Cambridge Enterprise. He is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Foundation for Science and Technology, of which he is also a trustee. He is a member of the advisory board of Tech City’s Investment Committee. He is an advisor to the Prince’s Trust technology group and a founding investor of Bridges Venturing, which is a sustainable growth investment firm. In September 2012 he was inducted into the Digital Hall of Fame, alongside Tim Berners-Lee, Warren East and Stephen Fry. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Contribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influential Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly.