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Kenneth Oye is a Professor of Political Science (School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences) and Data Systems and Society (School of Engineering) and Director of the Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET), with work on international relations, political economy and technology policy.  

His work in international relations includes Cooperation under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, and four “Eagle” monographs on American foreign policy, with advisory work for the Petersen Institute, UNIDO and US Treasury, Commerce and EXIM and the MIT Seminar XXI Program. 

His current work in technology policy centers on adaptive management of risks associated with synthetic biology and pharmaceuticals and on equity in health policy, with recent papers in anNature, Science, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and advisory work with the UN BWC and WHO, NIH NExTRAC, and PCAST. 

Professor Oye is the recipient of the Martore Award for Exceptional Educational Contributions (2018) and the Technology Policy Program Faculty Appreciation Award (2003, 2018) in the School of Engineering and the Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011) and the Graduate Council Teaching Award in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.   

Before coming to MIT, Professor Oye taught at Harvard University, the University of California, Princeton University and Swarthmore College. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University with the Chase Dissertation Prize.

Dr. George Westerman is Principal Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research and teaching help executives to understand the transformative potential of new technologies, and the steps they can take to build innovation capability in their firms.

During more than 20 years with MIT Sloan School of Management, he has been a pioneer in the study of digital transformation.  His early research and award-winning book Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation helped to frame the executive conversation on the topic. His research on workforce transformation and on digital-ready culture provides important insights for how to move from discrete technology projects to continuous innovation capability.  And his most recent research, in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, is helping executives to understand the transformative potential of AI.  

George is cochair of the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Awards and a member of the Digital Strategy Roundtable for the US Library of Congress, and executive advisor to executives in numerous large numerous around the world.  At MIT, he teaches the highly regarded MIT executive courses Leadership for the AI Age and Essential IT for Non-IT Executives. Prior to earning a Doctorate in innovation strategy from Harvard Business School, he gained more than a dozen years of experience in product development and technology leadership roles.

Dr. Nick van der Meulen is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR). He conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at MIT CISR's member companies, with a specific interest in how companies need to organize themselves differently in the face of continuous technological change. His work on digital workplaces and the employee experience resulted in a range of academic and industry publications, in outlets such as the Journal of Information Technology, MIS Quarterly Executive, and the European Business Review. Currently, he examines how organizations are developing a skilled workforce with the decision rights to rapidly adapt to changes in both innovative and cost-effective ways.

Nick earned his PhD in Business and Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Prior to joining MIT CISR, he was a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam.