Prof. Elizabeth Kıondo

Prof. Elizabeth Kıondo ıs a Prof. of Information Studies at the Unıversity of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. During her career at the University of Dar es Salaam, Prof. Kıondo has held various administrative and leadership positions. She is an accomplished scholar who has published widely and attended several national and international conferences. She has also received numerous awards in recognition of her extensive research work and contribution in generating knowledge in her area of expertise. In 2007, she was appointed to head the UNESCO National Commission, the position she held for six years before proceeding to Paris, France to undertake the position of Deputy Permanent Representatıve of Tanzania to UNESCO. Prof. Kiondo has served in various Boards both within and outside Tanzania including Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and the Bill Gates Informatıon Programme. Prof. Kiondo was appoınted first Ambassador of Tanzania to the Republic of Turkey in December 2016, the position she held until October 2021. Currently, she is engaged in trainıng, research and consulting work.

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Prof. Peter Heisig

Prof. Peter Heisig has more than 32 years of experience in Knowledge Management in research and practice. He belongs to the Top-20 authors of the leading “Journal of Knowledge Management”. He has been an advisor for several European Fortune-500 companies on KM as well as public sector organizations. Peter has also contributed to the development of several standards in Knowledge Management. He is a recognized KM expert by the European Organisation for Standardisation (CEN) and has served on the KM Working Group of the European

Commission and the Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo Japan. In 1990 Peter joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) where he worked in applied research projects for national and international customers. In 1996 he was appointed to develop and direct the Fraunhofer Competence Centre Knowledge Management and by the end of 2004 he founded the eureki as a Spin-off from the Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft which offers services within the field of knowledge and innovation. From 2007 to 2010 Peter worked at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK) to address the challenges of KM along the whole life cycle of complex products such as aircrafts and buildings. In summer 2010 Peter joint the Leeds University Business School where he continues his research in the area of Knowledge Management and research on Socio-Technical Systems Design. Over the last five years, Peter has collaborated with multi-national corporations to implement knowledge management on a global scale. Peter holds a Diploma in Social Sciences from Universität Göttingen (Germany). His PhD is in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) with a focus on “Integration of Knowledge Management into Business Processes”. Peter has consulted widely and worked with organizations such as ARLA FOODS, Maersk Oil, BOSCH GmbH, DaimlerChrysler AG among others. His main research interest rests on KM