Dr. Rebecca Harding will not only contribute as a Fellow of the institute but will also be a Visiting Lecturer at Offenburg University teaching digitalisation with a focus on fintech and insuretech.
Dr. Harding is the Chief Executive and Founder of Coriolis Technologies, a FinTech company using AI and machine learning to provide data and analytics to the trade finance community. Her academic background is in the interface between economics, innovation and entrepreneurship. She was formerly the Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor at London Business School, and has written extensively on trade, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Chris Jeffs has authored books, chapters and research papers on strategic and innovation management, design thinking and international business. He is Associate Professor in Strategic Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management, a Strategy Expert on the eMBA at IMD in Switzerland, and a Senior Examiner at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In addition, Dr. Jeffs is Owner Director of Form Strategies, a company that specialises in executive coaching and facilitating strategic innovation. He also serves on the Advisory and Decision Committee of the Mohammed Bin Rasheed Innovation Fund in the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Simone Krummaker’s research focuses on insurance and risk management, in particular on corporate demand for insurance. Dr. Krummaker is Senior Lecturer in Finance with Westminster Business School in London and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Risk and Insurance, Hannover. Previously, she worked as Lecturer in Finance at the University of East Anglia London and as Senior Researcher at the Center for Risk and Insurance and Associate Lecturer at the Institute for Insurance Economics, both at Leibniz University of Hannover.
About IfTI: The Institute for Trade and Innovation is home to leading academics in the field of benchmarking, strategy, implementation and process improvement. It also hosts postgraduate students and doctoral researchers focusing on economic development and growth. IfTI’s activities are based on an interdisciplinary approach with a cluster of economists, business economists, marketing specialists and lawyers. The institute pools this expertise to successfully contribute to knowledge and practice and will also work together with leading international partners.