June 7 - Corporate Communication International

Conference on Corporate Communication 2011
Misha Teimouri recently earned a M.S degree in Organization Communication from Putra University in
Malaysia, where her thesis project focused on “The Relationship between Workplace Friendship and
Organizational Commitment.” Her Ph.D. application in Mass Communication has been approved in the
same university. She has worked in several Iranian organizations as a journalist, reporter, PR assistant, PR
manager, chief editor, and editor for more than 14 years. While studying in Malaysia, she also wrote reports
for an Iranian magazine and Persian news agency.
Leila N. Trapp is an Assistant Professor at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences (ASB-SS),
Aarhus University, Denmark, where she is a member of the Centre for Corporate Communication. She has
a Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in corporate communication and culture. Her research interests
include strategic and global communication about corporate social and environmental responsibility and
business ethics. She teaches (English) language and communication-related subjects; she is currently
teaching public relations.
Christa Uusi-Rauva, DSc (Econ.), MBA, MSc (Econ.), is Lecturer of English Business Communication at
the Aalto University School of Economics (former Helsinki School of Economics) in Finland. Her main
research interests are company-internal communication of corporate social responsibility and media
representations of climate change.
Kobra Veisi is an academic lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Management, Islamic Azad
University, Hamedan Branch, Iran. She also cooperates with the same department at Islamic Azad
University, Asadabad Branch. She has a Master’s degree in management and her research interests are
information and knowledge management, management of intellectual properties at organizations,
globalization and its impact on the management of communication, and media management.
Orla Vigsø (Ph.D. Uppsala University) is an Associate Professor in Rhetoric at Södertörn University, in
Stockholm, Sweden. His main interests lie within public communication, both political and commercial, in
particular crisis communication. Dr. Vigsø has published articles on rhetoric, argumentation, hermeneutics,
semiotics, multimodal texts, and structuralist theory. He is also active as a translator of French theory
(Baudrillard, Virilio, Derrida).
Stefan Wehmeier is Foundational Professor of Strategic Communication and New Media at the FHWien
University of Applied Sciences. Previously he was an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Communication at the
University of Southern Denmark, a Junior Professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University (EMAU)
Greifswald, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig. He has also worked as a
journalist and PR practitioner. He did his dissertation in mass communication in 1997 at the University of
Münster, Germany, and Habilitation (venia legendi) in mass communication and media science in 2010 at
the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include: mass media, strategic communication,
public relations, online communication, CSR and the application of sociological and managerial theories to
communication studies.
Maja von Stedingk Wigren is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric at Örebro University, Sweden. She is
involved in a research project where Risk and Crisis Communication is being studied from a rhetorical
perspective. Her thesis focuses on the strategies that are being used to establish credibility in the Swedish
nuclear industry.
Michele Zak, Professor in Graduate Programs at Saint Mary’s College of California, teaches
Organizational Behavior and Management Communication. She also on occasion teaches Negotiations and
Conflict Management. Immediately prior to her appointment at Saint Mary’s College, she was Director of
the Management Communication Program at Stanford University. Her varied career includes such
administrative appointments as Director of Faculty Development and Affirmative Action for the University
of California System, a Human Resource Director at Kent State University, and a wide variety of teaching
experiences, including international teaching as a Visiting Professor at Helsinki University in Finland, and
a Visiting Professorship in the MBA program at Georgetown University. She is the author of Women and
the Politics of Culture, and the forthcoming Leadership and the Art of Communication, and numerous
papers and articles. Her most recent article is “Sepsis: Cognition and Communication in Critical Care” in
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