| Marcus Birkenkrahe | |
|---|---|
| Born | Speh December 29, 1963 Bad Kreuznach, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Organization | Berlin School of Economics and Law |
| Title | Professor of Business Information Systems |
| Awards | Best of Web Award 1994[1] |
Marcus Birkenkrahe (born December 29, 1963 as Marcus Speh in Bad Kreuznach, Germany) is a physicist and information architect who also works as an executive coach.[2]
After obtaining his Abitur in 1983, Birkenkrahe studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Hamburg. In 1994, he worked as a research assistant at DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on multigrid computations for lattice gauge theories using object-oriented, literate programming.[3] As co-founder and chairman of the Globewide Network Academy (GNA), he received the awards for "Best Campus-Wide Information System"[4] and "Best Educational Site"[5] at the First World-Wide Web conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 1994. Between 1995 and 2001 he worked as a corporate IT executive for Accenture and Royal Dutch Shell.[6] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), London (1998–2008) and has been a registered expert and reviewer for knowledge management for the European Union since 1999. In 2002, he served as a visiting professor for knowledge management at the University of Auckland Business School where he won the "Best Paper 2002" award of the University of Auckland Business Review.[7][8]
Since 2007, Birkenkrahe is a professor of management information systems at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, a leading German business school[9] and Head of E-Learning (since 2008). He serves as member of the editorial board for the Int. J. of Learning and Change[10] and of the Int. J. of Innovation in Education.[11]