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Revision as of 23:27, 25 July 2010
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Marcus Birkenkrahe | |
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 Picture taken in 2010 | |
| Born | Speh December 29, 1963 |
| Other names | Finnegan Flawnt |
| 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, information architect and writer 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].
Birkenkrahe publishes flash fiction under the pen names Finnegan Flawnt and Marcus Speh. He is an honorary member of Alpha Mu Gamma, the national collegiate foreign language honor society of the USA since 2009. He lives in Berlin with his wife, American artist Carlye Birkenkrahe and their daughter Lucia.
References
- ^ Best of Web Awards 1994 - Educational Service
- ^ German Economics magazine "Brandeins", June 2006
- ^ DESY Library of Dissertations
- ^ Best of the Web Awards 1994, Best Campus-Wide Information System
- ^ Best of Web Awards 1994 - Educational Service
- ^ London School Of Economics Complexity Research Group
- ^ University of Auckland Business School News
- ^ It's A Small World, Interview, IKmagazine, June 2002
- ^ Faculty profile Berlin School of Economics and Law
- ^ Int. J. of Learning and Change
- ^ Int. J. of Innovation in Education
External links
- Interview for Voices, a literary community.
- "Birkenkrahe Bloggs" - Birkenkrahe's professional blog.
- Faculty Profile - at HWR Berlin.
- "Flawnt" - Finnegan Flawnt's home page.
- "Nothing To Flawnt" - Marcus Speh's writer home page.