Award Ceremony of the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award & Panel with the Awardees

Georg von Krogh (born in 1963) is professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation. He is also Head of ETH Zurichs Department of Management, Technology and Economics. Concomitantly to his academic career, during which Georg von Krogh held numerous professorships at leading universities around the world, he has consulted on strategy and trained executives from companies in Asia, Europe as well as the USA.

He is considered an eminent authority in the fields of strategic management, knowledge creation, innovation, as well as organisation and management theory. Georg von Krogh received a Ph.D. in management from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Sciences in 1990.



Born in 1985, Ainur Begim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, cum laude, from Bates College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 2007. She also studied economics, anthropology, and comparative religion and is currently a first-year graduate student at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Her research is on post-socialist financial markets.

Ainur Begim spent her childhood in Russia and Kazakhstan. An avid debater, Ainur Begim won regional and national debate competitions and participated in the 2002 International Debate Forum in Slovakia. Moreover, she supplemented formal studies with volunteer work at elderly homes and Head Start classrooms.

In 2005, Ainur Begim was awarded Phillips Fellowship to study an ancient Greek festival, Panathenaia, in Athens, Paris and London. In 2006, she conducted independent summer research on the ancient and modern Kyrgyz cultural identity. After her undergraduate studies, Ainur Begim worked as a credit analyst on Wall Street.

Born in 1983. Christoph Birkholz received a Masters degree from Witten/Herdecke University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen. Christoph Birkholz was a visiting student at IPADE Busi¬ness School Mexico and engaged in a research project on scal-ing social impact at an Indian NGO together with IESE Business School.

Christoph Birkholz is passionate about social and environmental entrepreneurship for a sustainable society. As a research assis¬tant at the Good Energies Chair for Management of Renewable Energies, he investigates business models that facilitate access to energy at the base-of-the-pyramid. Alongside his academic work, Christoph Birkholz is a co-founder of The Hub Zürich, a not-for-profit incubator and co-working space for social innovators. Christoph Birkholz gained professional experience at BP Germany and Australia, A.T. Kearney and RWE Innogy, where he also con¬ducted research on corporate venture capital for clean technology start-ups.




Born in 1986. In 2008, James Clear received a Bachelor of Science in Biomechanics, summa cum laude, from Denison University. He will complete his MBA at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University in June 2010.
James Clear was selected to deliver the Senior Class Address at Commencement and was awarded Denison Universitys highest honor, the Presidents Medal. During his academic career, he has studied at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has volun¬teered at the Refugee Resettlement Service in Atlanta, Georgia where he has worked with refugees from Somalia, Sudan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Outside of academia, James Clear has conducted research on a variety of medical topics including the relative graft strength of ulnar collateral ligament reconstructions, the effectiveness of platelet-rich plasma injections as a treatment for achilles ten-dinosis, and the outcomes of total joint replacements.

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