Director, Standards Strategy and Policy, EMEA, Oracle Corporation
London, United Kingdom
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- Director, Standards Strategy and Policy--EMEA at Oracle
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- National Expert E-government at European Commission
- Project Manager at Norwegian Board of Technology
- Research Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
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Trond A. Undheim, PhD, LeadershipFromBelow.com’s Summary
• Trond Arne Undheim is a speaker and entrepreneur, currently the Director Standards Strategy and Policy, EMEA for Oracle, and he recently published the management book Leadership From Below (2008).
• He was previously a National Expert on eGovernment at the European Commission. Trond led the EUs good practice exchange initiative, epractice.eu, which displays cases totalling one billion euros in project implementation. Trond merged two huge websites owned by different directorates, led the Web 2.0 design, secured a 700% membership increase in 4 months of operation, tripled the number of monthly visitors, quadrupled the number of workshops and oversaw all product development.
• Trond was the Project Manager on software policy at the Norwegian Board of Technology, and a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley in California. He co-founded several start-ups, including a think tank (www.liblab.no), and his own consulting firm.
• Trond is on the Executive Board for the Welfare and Innovation Policy project with Liberal Laboratory (http://www.liblab.no). Liblab is a Scandinavian think tank he co-founded in 2004.
• Trond is a popular speaker at international events, has written dozens of articles and publishes regularly on topics such as e-Government, knowledge management, Internet strategy, and social change, most recently, the book Leadership from below (2008). He is a reviewer for the Research Council of Norway and a founding Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of ePractice (http://www.epracticejournal.eu).
• Trond obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and holds an MA (1998) in the Sociology of Publishing.
Trond A. Undheim, PhD, LeadershipFromBelow.com’s Specialties:
leadership, standards, web 2.0 services, management, eGovernment, branding, product development, sales, foresight, business problem solving, public speaking, networking, open source, open standards, benchmarking, analysis, impact measurement, social science, writing, publishing, evaluation.
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Trond A. Undheim, PhD, LeadershipFromBelow.com’s Honors:
* Salzburg Fellow (2005)
* Norwegian Research Council Travel Grant for USA (1999)
* Erasmus scholarship for Italy (1995)
* Erasmus scholarship for Belgium (1993)
