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Richard Straub
ELIG Secretary General
richard.straub@elig.org
www.elig.org
Personal Profile
In the course of his international career Richard Straub held various executive line
and staff positions in IBM such as Assistant General Manager PC Marketing for IBM
Europe based in Paris, Chief Learning Officer in the US with global responsibility
and Director of Learning Solutions for Europe, Middle-East and Africa.
He is currently senior advisor to the Chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and
Africa, Secretary General of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) and
Director of Development and CLIP (Corporate Learning Improvement Process) at
the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Richard is also
President of the recently formed "Peter Drucker Society of Austria".
For the last 10 years he has been deeply involved in European Union level industry
initiatives in the area of skills, lifelong learning and innovation in roles such as
President of the European Career Space Consortium (ICT skills and new University
curricula required for the 21st Century Economy), the Living Labs Policy Group and
Chair of the Open Innovation Strategy Group with member such as Nokia, Intel, BT,
IBM and SAP.
As a thought leader at the intersection of Academia and Business he is a keynote
speaker at international conferences and member of business school boards. He
has been named "Visiting Executive" at the Helsinki School of Economics, a new
advisory role with a focus on industry/academia linkages.