Prof. Dr. Georg von Krogh Georg von Krogh was born on May 24, 1963 in Norway. He is Professor of Management at the University of St. Gallen and member of the board of directors at the Institute of Management. He studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he graduated in 1986. In 1990 he received his Ph.D. from the division of organization and work science at University of Trondheim. From 1991-1994 he was an associate professor of strategy at the Norwegian School of Management and director of the School's M.Sc. Program in International Strategy and Marketing.

Professor von Krogh has been Assistant Professor at SDA Bocconi (Milano). Further he has been a research fellow at University of Munich and University of Aachen. He has also served as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Kanasawa, Japan, and the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. He has also worked as a management consultant at the Center for Applied Strategy in Zug, Switzerland, and he is an active advisor to European and American firms in the area of corporate and competitive strategy.

Professor von Krogh's present research interests are in the area of Strategic Management; cooperative strategies; strategic processes including knowledge and competence development; strategic management practices in emerging industries; the foundations of qualitative research in the field of strategy. He has published several books as well as some 30 articles in international scientific journals.