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ProfilesThe ProgrammeINDUSTRYDR Kjell NordstrOmAssociate ProfessorStockholm School of EconomicsDr Kjell Nordström is a guru of the new world of business; he has served as a consultantto several large multinationals and is on the board of directors of several companies.Kjell Nordström holds an Economic Licentiate degree and a doctorate in Economics from the StockholmSchool of Economics. He is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and one of thefounders of the school’s most prestigious management programs; The Advanced Management Program(AMP). He was recognized as Sweden’s outstanding young academic of the year.Kjell has published a book and numerous articles on the internationalization process of firms; the book FunkyBusiness – Talent makes capital dance (co-authored with Jonas Ridderstråle) is a manifesto of what is required ofbusiness firms and their leaders in these changing times. The book has been featured on CNN and CNBC,and appeared in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times and Paris Match.A further book: Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind (co-authored with Jonas Ridderstråle) is amanifesto for how to make it in the world of ‘Karaoke Capitalism’.His latest book, also co-authored with his colleague, Dr Jonas Ridderstråle is entitled Funky Business Foreverand was published in September 2007.Kjell and Jonas are rebels with a cause. With their unorthodox combination of academic rigor, forceful logicand funky free-thinking they re-write the rules for revolutionaries.ALAN PARKERChief ExecutiveWhitbread PLCAlan Parker was appointed Chief Executive of Whitbread PLC in June 2004 havingbeen Managing Director of Whitbread Hotel Company for the previous twelve yearsand a member of the Whitbread PLC Board since 2000.Whitbread is the UK’s No 1 hotel and restaurant company with leading brands such as Premier Inn, CostaCoffee and Beefeater.Alan was educated at the University of Surrey (BSc in Hotel Management), where he is now a VisitingProfessor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme, a Directorand ex-Chairman of the British Hospitality Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, a Director ofVisitBritain, an Executive Committee Member of the World Travel & Tourism Council and Non-ExecutiveDirector of Jumeirah Group LLC.Before joining Whitbread in 1992, Alan was Senior Vice President of Holiday Inn Europe, Middle East andAfrica based in Brussels, and prior to that, Managing Director Europe of Crest Hotels based in Frankfurt.Alan’s career started as a boy in the hotel and catering industry in the family’s London restaurant.56