Bridging the Gender Gap Seven Principles for Achieving Gender Balance

by Roseberry, Lynn; Roos, Johan

• ISBN13: 9780191785832
• ISBN10: 0191785830
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-07-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Lynn Roseberry, Associate Professor and Equal Opportunities Officer, Copenhagen Business School,Johan Roos, CEO and Professor, Jonkoping International Business School

Dr. Lynn Roseberry, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. has more than 20 years of experience working with gender issues as a lawyer, scholar, and in university management in the United States and Europe. She is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, where she also serves as the Business School's first Equal Opportunity Officer. Dr. Roseberry has a broad educational background including a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Yale University, and degrees in law from Arizona State University (J.D.), Harvard Law School (LL.M.), and Copenhagen Business School (Ph.D.). She has represented women in sex discrimination, domestic violence, and child custody cases and written about feminist legal theory, discrimination law, and issues concerning women's reproductive freedom.

Dr. Johan Roos, MSc., Ph.D. is a Swedish national with 25 years of experience in management research, teaching and academic leadership. He has held positions at Wharton School, BI Norwegian Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, and at IMD in Switzerland. Dr. Roos was the founding CEO of Swiss-based Imagination Lab Foundation. He has been President of Copenhagen Business School and is currently CEO of Jonkoping International Business School, where he is also Professor of Strategy. Dr. Roos has published 11 books plus dozens of articles on the need to innovate leadership processes in organizations, especially in strategy making. As an advisor and board member of several corporations, he continually works with corporate leaders in a wide range of industries on five continents. He is an elected member of the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences, co-inventor of LEGO Serious PlayRG and chaired the Danish government's international Design Vision 2020 committee.