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Professor Dr. Rolf D. Schlunze

Ritsumeikan University, Department of International Management

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Guest Speakers of SIEM 2010

	Dr. HENRY Wai-chung YEUNG Presentation Title: My research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, Asian firms and their overseas operations and Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region. I have conducted extensively research on Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia, the regionalization of Singaporean companies, and the emergence of leading Asian firms in the global economy. Professor Department of Geography, NUS, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
	Dr. Andrew Jones Presentation Title: New Geographies of Global Managerial Practice: The Case of Business Services Andrew Jones is an economic geographer with a leaning towards the sociocultural aspects of economic activity. His research has been concerned with topics at the cross-over of economic geography, management studies and sociology, notably in his interest in global business service firms and transnational management practices. Recent research projects have in including work on global management, professionalism and business travel in transnational banking, law, consultancy and accountancy firms. Membership of academic associations & research groups: Director, Centre for Applied Economic Geography, Birkbeck College, University of London Fellow of Royal Geographical Society & (Incoming) Chair, RGS-IBG Economic Geography Research Group Member Association of American Geographers Member of Sloan Industries Study Group
	Tim Reiffenstein Presentation Title: How does US educational experience shape the everyday work environment of Japanese legal professionals? My research focuses on Japanese industrial geography, in particular by exploring how evolving intellectual property policy and associated management practices have shaped Japan’s international economic relations. Projects include comparative studies of Japanese and American patent law professions, Japanese intellectual property in relation to Vietnam, and linguistic and institutional challenges of patent policy harmonization between Japan and the US. Associate Professor Department of Geography and Environment Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada Member of: Canadian Association of Geographers, Canadian Regional Science Association, Association of American Geographers
	Patrik Ström Presentation Title: Space Oddity – On Managerial Decision Making and Space Patrik Ström is the “Staffan Helmfrid Pro Futura Fellow” at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, and the Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ström holds a PhD in Business Administration and an Econ. Dr. in Economic Geography. The research interest focuses on the internationalization and development of the East Asian service economy. Recent publications include: Ström, P. & Yoshino, N. (2009) Japanese financial service firms in East and Southeast Asia: Location pattern and strategic response in changing economic conditions, in Asian Business & Management, 8(1):33-58; Alvstam, C., Ström, P. & Yoshino, N. (2009) On the economic interdependence between China and Japan– challenges and possibilities, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 50(2): 198-214; Ström, P. & Wahlqvist, E. (2009) Regional and Firm Competitiveness in the Service Based Economy – Combining Economic Geography and International Business Theory, forthcoming in Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie.
	Ronald Wall Managing global cities through corporate network analysis Ronald Wall was born in Harare, Zimbabwe on the 27th of November 1966. He grew up in South Africa between 1971 and 1987. From 1987 onwards he has resided in The Netherlands. He holds a masters degree in urban planning(1998), and a doctorate in economic geography (2009). He has worked for urban development institutions like OMA (Rem Koolhaas), West 8 (Adriaan Geuze) MVRDV (Winy Maas) and the Rijksplanbureau (RPB/VROM). In 1997 he received a presidential commendation from Nelson Mandela for his contribution to urban planning in South Africa. Between 2003 and 2008 has been scientific coordinator of a Dutch national research project called ‘Network of Networks’ for the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Ronald Wall has between 2001 and 2009 been professor in urban planning at the Berlage Institute and the Rotterdam and Amsterdam Academies of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2006 and 2007 he carried out a four year contracted research for The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (RIVM/MNP) concerning urban development in relation to world city networks and sustainability. Similarly in 2007 he carried out research for the municipality of Almere concerning the position of this city within national and global corporate networks, in which the results were used to define a future urban vision of Almere 2020. In 2009 / 2010 he has carried out network analysis for renowned architect Rem Koolhaas concerning the economic networks of Gulf cities with the world. Presently he is researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Housing and Urban Studies (IHS / Erasmus University) and is doing contract research for the Dutch government concerning competition and complimentarity of Dutch cities within the global urban system. (The central interests of his work are statistics, network analysis, geographic information system (GIS) analysis and urban planning and design techniques. He has been published in some 30 journals, research reports, books and conference proceedings in the fields of architecture, urban planning and economic geography.