UVA/HBS Faculty

	Robert D. Austin is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and Fellow with the Cutter Consortium. His research focuses on management of innovative and knowledge intensive activities, especially as applied in creative industries and information technology management. He has written on these subjects in five books and numerous academic and trade journals.
	Michael G. Morris is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the McIntire School of Commerce. His research interests focus on the management of IT, with specific emphasis on systems design and implementation, technology adoption, acceptance and use in organizations, human-computer interaction and usability engineering, and job outcomes associated with information technology use. Professor Morris serves on the editorial boards of MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.
	R. Ryan Nelson is Director of the McIntire School’s Center for the Management of Information Technology and Director of the Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology 12-Month Program. His teaching, research, and consulting interests focus on project management, business process improvement, and innovation and technology management. Professor Nelson serves on the editorial board of the MIS Quarterly Executive.
	Carl P. Zeithaml is the F.S. Cornell Professor in Free Enterprise and Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce. Dean Zeithaml specializes in the field of strategic management, with an emphasis on global and competitive strategy. He conducts research on international expansion strategies, knowledge-based sources of competitive advantage, corporate political activity, strategic decision making, the strategic role of the board of directors, the implementation of acquisition and diversification strategies, and organizational transformation. He focuses much of his research agenda on high-technology industries, the energy industry, and the health care industry.

Denmark International Study Faculty

	Jacob Buksti holds degrees in political science and contemporary history from the University of Aarhus. Mr. Buksti served as a member of parliament, representing the Social Democrats, from 1994 to 2005. He served as Party Spokesman on Taxes and Fiscal Affairs from 2001 to 2005, and as Minister for Transport from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Buksti joined DIS in 2003.
	Anne Mette Christiansen received her degree in international business strategy and development studies from the Copenhagen Business School in 2000. Ms. Christiansen is currently the Business Unit Manager at Aalund, a market analysis and consultancy firm in Denmark. She has worked with DIS since 2001.
	Niels Hald earned his degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1979. Mr. Hald serves as Secretary General and CEO of the Danish Brewers Association and the Danish Soft Drink Association. Mr. Hald also served as a Counselor of Embassy, Deputy to the Ambassador, and Permanent Representative of Denmark to the EU, 1992 to 1996. He has been with DIS since 2002.
	Susanne Hovmand received her degree in international business from Copenhagen Business School in 1999. She has worked as a research consultant for Harrigan-Bodick Inc., New York, and for TNS Gallup A/S, Copenhagen. Ms. Hovmand served as an External Lecturer for Copenhagen Business School from 2003 to 2005. She joined DIS in 2006.
	Carsten Pape holds degrees in history and Russian from the universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen, respectively. Mr. Pape has worked as a Research Associate in the University of Copenhagen’s Slavic Department and conducted research at the Soviet Academy of Sciences during the mid-1970s and early 1980s. In the fall of 1986, Mr. Pape taught at the American University, in Washington, D.C., in the position of Visiting Adjunct Professor. Mr. Pape was awarded the Carlsberg Foundation Research Scholarship in 2000. He has been with DIS since 1983, where he currently serves as a senior consultant.
	Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning earned his degree in political science from the University of Aarhus in 2000. Mr. Tscherning has served on the European Commission, as an EU Public Affairs consultant, and as the European Cultural Contact Point for the Danish Ministry of Culture. He has been the Official Speaker of the European Commission since 1996. Mr. Tscherning has been a Lecturer and consultant on issues related to EU affairs and creative industries, as well as a senior consultant in Ramboll Management’s Centre for Experience Economy. He has been with Roskilde Festival since 1994, with VEGA House of Music since 2001 and with DIS since 2005.

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