The Award Committee
Berit Svendsen, CEO, Conax
Peter T. Kirstein, Professor at University
College in London
Erik Bohlin, Professor at
Chalmers Tekniska Høgskola in Gothenburg
Mads Christoffersen, PhD, associate professor at the Center for Technology, Economics and Management at the Technical University of Denmark
Gunnar Stette, Professor at
the Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim
Olli Martikainen, Professor at the University
of Oulo
Berit Svendsen
Berit Svendsen holds an MSc in Electronics from the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU) (1988), and a Master of Technology Management
from NTNU and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1995).
She joined Telenor in 1988 as a Research Scientist. From 2000 to 2005 she was
Executive Vice President and CTO of Telenor and also working Chair of Telenor
R&D. In January 2005 she took up the position as Vice President and Head
of Telenor Nordic Fixed with overall responsibility for the fixed network business
in Norway. She is a member of several boards among them Simula Resarch Laboratory
(Chairman), Data-Respons AS and Telenor Venture, from 2002 to 2007 Berit Svendsen
was a member of the European Commission / IST Advisory Group. She joined Conax
as CEO in May 2008.
Peter T. Kirstein is Professor of Computer Communcations Systems and Director of Research in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. He received his BA in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a Ph D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a D.Sc from London University in the same subject.
Since 1970 he has led research groups on projects concerned
with many aspects of computer communication - such as developments in network
protocols, mobile networks, multimedia, network management, directory and security
applications, mostly in collaboration with European and US colleagues. He is
a Fellow of a number of professional bodies including the Royal Academy of Engineering,
British Computer Society, Institute of Physics, Institution of Electrical Engineers,
Senior Member Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Governor International
Computer and Communications Committee, and Honorary Foreign member of the American
Association of Arts and Science. He has been an active member of several government
committees and institutions and has acted as a consultant for many international
companies. He is member of the Aufsichtsrat of TEIA (Berlin), and former Director
of the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting.
Peter T. Kirstein has written some 200 papers and one book.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/kirstein
Erik Bohlin
Erik Bohlin, Professor at Chalmers Tekniska Høgskola in Gothenburg.
Erik Bohlin is Professor at the Department of Technology Management and Economics
at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Head of the Division of
Technology & Society at the Department.
He has published in a number of areas relating to the information
society - policy, strategy, and management. He is Chair of the International
Telecommunications Society; member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of Communications
and Strategies, Info, International Journal of Management and Network Economics,
NB!ict, and Telecommunications Policy; Research Fellow of Institute of Management,
Innovation and Technology (IMIT); and Jury Member of the Telenor Nordic Research
Award in Telecommunications. He obtained his graduate degree in Business Administration
and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (1987) and his Ph.D. at Chalmers
University of Technology (1995).
Mads Christoffersen
Mads Christoffersen holds a PhD in Cultural Sociology from University of Copenhagen.
He is an associate professor at the Center for Technology, Economics and Management
at the Technical University of Denmark. He has been professorial researcher
at France Telecom's UST lab 1992-93.
From 1993 to 2002 Mads Christoffersen has held various managing
positions at TDC/Tele Danmark as director of social science department, director
of Technolgy & Society, corporate director of organisation development and
director business development. He is currently a consultant and course coordinator
Senior Management Development Programme for Telekom Malaysia provided by Department
of Management Science, University of Strathclyde.
Mads Christoffersen is the author and editor of books and articles relating
to telecommunications/society/users and has given numerous lectures and presentations
on related subjects since the early 1980s. He has been a personal member of
the Minister of Culture's Think Tank on media policy, member of the Euro CPR
organising committees from 1991-95, Danish representative in ANET /Academic
Network of Telecommunications Research) from 1985, and member of the ICUST programme
committees since 1998.
Gunnar Stette
Gunnar Stette received his graduate engineer degree in electronics and communications
from NTH, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, in 1962 and his doctoral.degree
at NTH in 1967 in the field of electroacoustics. From 1967 to 1973 he was a
scientist at the SHAPE Technical Centre, the Hague, Netherlands working with
Satellite communications. From 1973 he was a Senior Scientist at ELAB, the Electronics
Researc Laboratory at the NTH, now NTNU the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology. After his return to Norway in 1973, he was engaged in several
satellite communications projects, national and domestic ones, and also in the
global system for maritime satellite communications, INMARSAT. Stette has played
an active role in national and European space activities, and has for three
years been Chairman of the Joint Communications Board of the European Space
Agency, and for more than three years Chairman of the satellite committee of
ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
Olli Martikainen
Olli Martikainen has a Ph.D. from Helsinki University and a M.Sc. from Helsinki
University of Technology. He has been doing research in several positions in
Helsinki University of Technology (1976 - 1982), Oxford University (1980 - 1981)
and Technical Research Centre of Finland (1982 - 1985). Later he has been R&D
Manager in Nokia Electronics (1985 - 1986), Department Manager in Nokia Research
Centre (1986 - 1987), Professor and Head of Datacommunications Institute in
Lappeenranta University of Technology (1988 - 1989) and Professor in Technical
Research Centre (1989 - 1991). During 1991 - 1997 he has been in Telecom Finland
as Research Director (1991 - 1993) and Vice President, R&D (1993 - 1997).
He has been Professor in Telecom Architectures at Helsinki University of Technology
(1995 - 2001), and Research Director of LTKK-Innovaatiot Oy (1999 - 2001). He
was the Director, R&D and CEO of Necsom Ltd during 2001-2002. Currently
he is Professor in University of Oulu, Associate Research Fellow in the Research
Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) and Docent in Helsinki University of
Technology and Lappeenranta University of Technology.
He is member of Finnish Academy of Technology, member of the Board of Directors of TietoEnator Oyj and member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Osakeyhtiö. He is also member of the Board of Directors of Wificom Technologies Ltd, member of the Advisory Board of Digia Ltd and Partner in Forifina Oy. His main interest areas are telecommunication software methods and tools, network architectures, performance analysis and new industrial and economic structures in telecommunications. He has over 250 publications and several patents.
