Michael Impink (HEC Paris)
Michael Impink is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. His research focuses on digital entrepreneurship and the impact of digitization on organizational structure. Before joining HEC Paris, Michael was a senior manager at Microsoft based in Seattle and Singapore, a fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and at NYU Stern School of Business. Michael has a Ph.D. from NYU Stern.

Daniel Rock (Wharton)
Daniel Rock is an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersection of information technology, intangible capital, and the economics of artificial intelligence. Before joining Wharton, Daniel was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT. Daniel also earned his B.S., summa cum laude, from the Wharton School, with concentrations in Finance, Operations, and Information Management.

Martin Quinn (Erasmus University)
Martin Quinn is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the Rotterdam School of Management. His research focuses on the economics of online media, personal information, and intellectual property within the fields of information systems and digital economics. Before joining Rotterdam, Martin was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics and Télécom Paris, where he specialized in the economics of online advertising and digital economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Télécom Paris.

Shrabastee Banerjee (Tilburg University)
Shrabastee Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tilburg School of Economics and Management. Her research explores how consumers use cues like reviews, ratings, and prices in e-commerce, employing causal inference, experiments, and machine learning. She also investigates the role of digitization in equity and development. Before joining Tilburg, Shrabastee earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from Boston University, where she was a Rafik Hariri Graduate Fellow. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Calcutta University and an M.Sc. from Warwick University as a Commonwealth Scholar.

Kai Zhu (Bocconi University)
Kai Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, specializing in Information Systems. Before joining Bocconi, he served as an Assistant Professor at McGill University. His research covers topics such as content growth, attention contagion in information networks, and the impact of peer feedback on user content generation. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Boston University, an M.A. in Economics from Indiana University, a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Beijing Language and Culture University.

Andrey Simonov  (Columbia University)
Andrey Simonov is the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where he focuses on quantitative marketing. He is a Stigler Center Affiliate Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Additionally, Andrey was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in Business (Quantitative Marketing) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, along with M.Sc. degrees in Business (Marketing) and Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from Tilburg University, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Meng Liu  (Washington University St Louis)
Meng Liu is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research explores the economics of AI and algorithms, market design, and quantitative marketing. In addition to her role at Washington University, Meng is a Digital Fellow at Stanford's Digital Economy Lab and a Research Fellow at MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing at Washington University and a Post-doctoral Associate at MIT. Meng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Clemson University and a B.S., magna cum laude, in Mathematical Economics from Ball State University.

Imke Reimers (Cornell University)
Imke Reimers is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Economics at Cornell University. She is broadly interested in the industrial organization of digital markets, information, and intellectual property. Her research mainly focuses on two specific questions: 1) how does intellectual property policy affect access to information; and 2) how does information technology affect consumer and firm decisions as well as the functioning and efficiency of markets? Imke received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. Before joining Cornell University, Imke spent a year at the NBER in the digitization and copyright initiative, was a faculty member at Northeastern and also became a national champion tennis player in her age group.

Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich)
Luis Aguiar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich and part of the University’s Digital Society Initiative. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He also currently serves as a co-editor for Information Economics and Policy. His main research interests lie in the economics of digitization and the empirical analysis of online markets, with a particular emphasis on how technological change is affecting consumers and firms’ behavior in the media and content industries. He is also interested in how intellectual property - copyright policy in particular - is affected by digitization.

Grazia Cecere (Institut Mines Télécom)
Grazia Cecere is Professor of Economics at the Institut Mines Télécom, Business School, LITEM. She is Director of Research at the Institut Mines Télécom, Business School. She obtained her doctorate in economics from the University of Paris Saclay (France) and the University of Turin (Italy). Her main research areas are digital economics with a focus on privacy economics, algorithms and machine learning, mobile app economics and digital marketing.

Xiaomeng Chen (University of Pittsburgh) - Oct 10, 2023
Xiaomeng Chen Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies digital platforms, focusing on the implications of various platform strategies on platform outcomes. Her work involves econometrics and field experiments to understand the causal impacts of whether certain platform choice can bring positive outcomes. Xiaomeng has a Ph.D, in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, SC Johnson College of Business.

Avinash Collis (University of Texas at Austin, now Carnegie Mellon University)
Avinash Collis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a digital fellow at the Stanford University Digital Economy Lab and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He holds a PhD in Information Technology from the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He does research on the Economics of Digitization and teaches courses related to Technology Strategy.

Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School)
Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the growth of digital platforms, such as Amazon and Airbnb. Her work explores key decisions managers need to make when crafting growth strategies that attract new users and intensify use by existing platform participants.  Chiara has a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Dominik Gutt (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Dominik Gutt is Assistant Professor of Business Information Management at the Department of Technology and Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He obtained his PhD from Paderborn University in May 2019 and joined RSM in September 2019 (CVOpens external). Dominik’s main research interests lie in Smart Services (e.g., Smart Contract NFTs and Smart Conversational Agents) and user-generated content (e.g., electronic word-of-mouth or peer-to-peer video streams). Currently, Dominik is mainly teaching economics of digital markets, research methods for IS students (in particular, econometrics), and web scraping.

Reinhold Kesler (University of Zurich, now University of Düsseldorf)
Reinhold Kesler studied economics at the University of Mannheim, focusing on applied microeconometrics and empirical industrial organisation. In 2019, he graduated summa cum laude with a dissertation on “Competition Policy in the Digital Era” at the University of Zurich. Reinhold joined the Chair for Entrepreneurship as a postdoctoral researcher on July 1, 2019. Previously, he was a researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the Digital Economy department. His research focuses on the economics of digitalisation, especially on the functioning and competition policy aspects of digital platforms as well as on the role of user data.

Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich, now Imperial College)
Tobias Kretschmer is Professor of Strategy, Technology and Organization at the LMU Munich School of Management. His work focuses on strategy and organization design in technology-intensive industries, especially platform markets and digital technologies. In a previous life, Tobias played bass in a thrash metal band and performed as a DJ in London, Singapore and Munich, playing tunes like this: https://youtu.be/cpprnWM0psw.

Thomas Kude (ESSEC, now Unviersity of Bamberg)
Thomas Kude is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School. In his research, he is interested in the development and application of information systems at various levels of analysis. His recent research has primarily focused on digital innovation produced by collectives of organizations and individuals. For example, he has studied the governance and evolution of digital platforms and ecosystems in different domains, including enterprise software and mobile apps. He has also studied collaboration in teams, in particular software development teams. His work has been published in various outlets including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Information Systems Journal.

Anja Lambrecht (London Business School)
Anja Lambrecht’s research focuses on digital marketing, with a particular emphasis on online targeting and advertising as well as promotion and pricing. She has examined how firms can use retargeting to reach out to consumers and how firms can advertise on Twitter to early trend propagators. Her work on digital pricing has examined, among others, freemium pricing for online content sites and mobile apps. Her current work further focuses on how spillovers between different economic actors in digital markets can lead to apparent algorithmic bias.

Joost Rietveld (University College London)
Joost (/Yoast/) Rietveld is Assistant Professor in the department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. His research interests are at the intersection of technology strategy and innovation management. Joost’s research seeks to understand how inter-organizational dynamics, including platform-complementor relationships, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions, affect product-level outcomes. He is also interested in how digitization facilitates new and innovative ways of doing business including the freemium and platform-based business models.

Maria Roche (Harvard Business School)
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Her research focuses on the sourcing, production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts including cities, co-working spaces, universities, and open source platforms. Her work, published at The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science and Research Policy, has been featured in The Atlantic, and the WSJ. Maria has a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech.

Hakan Özalp (University of Amsterdam)
Hakan Özalp is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. Before joining the University of Amsterdam, he was at VU Amsterdam, LMU Munich and Leeds University Business School. His research explores the antecedents and the impact of industrial and technological change on platform ecosystems, firms, and innovation-based competition taking place within these ecosystems and across firms. Hakan has a Ph.D. from Bocconi University.

Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon)
Ananya Sen is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz College). His research interests center around platforms with a special focus on the media, innovation and more broadly the digital economy. Ananya uses a variety of empirical techniques to analyze data from field experiments as well as observational data to gain insight into broad research questions. Before moving to Carnegie Mellon, he was a Post Doctoral Associate at MIT Sloan School of Mangement. He received a Ph.D in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics.

Benjamin Shiller (Brandeis University)
Benjamin Shiller is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brandeis University. His research focuses on industrial organization and technological change. More specifically, he investigates the impacts of consumer data collection (pricing strategies, market concentration), consumer countermeasures (ad blocking), distribution formats (digital distribution, pricing, and resale restrictions), and information disclosure / mechanism design (vehicle crashworthiness ratings). Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Erdem Dogukan Yilmaz (Erasmus University Rotterdam, now INSEAD)
Erdem Dogukan Yilmaz is an assistant professor of Strategic Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research is in the nexus of strategic management and information systems, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence/robotics, digitization, and open innovation.