Conference on <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 2011 Misha Teimouri recently earned a M.S degree in Organization <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>. 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 <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Communication</strong> and New Media at the FHWien University of Applied Sciences. Previously he was an Adjunct Professor of Strategic <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Communication</strong>. 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 <strong>Communication</strong> 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 <strong>Communication</strong>, and numerous papers and articles. Her most recent article is “Sepsis: Cognition and <strong>Communication</strong> in Critical Care” in Page 28
<strong>June</strong> 7 – 10, 2011, Baruch College/CUNY, New York, NY, USA the Australian Journal of <strong>Communication</strong>, December, 2008. Dr. Zak has served as a consultant in communication and organizational development for many years, serving clients including Chevron, Pacific Gas and Electric, the transportation industry, including the Santa Clara Transportation Agency and the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the technology industry in Silicon Valley. Her current research interests are in communication in health care management and narrative as a qualitative research technique. She holds a masters degree from UCLA and a doctorate from The Ohio State University. Page 29
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