PhD, Professor of Media Management
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Leadership in highly dynamic and innovative environments
Academic MindTrek Keynote - Wed 6th Oct at 09.00

Cinzia Dal Zotto is Professor of Media Management at the Faculty of Economics and Director of the Academy of Journalism and Media at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Before that and until December 2008 she was Research Director at the Media Management and Transformation Centre and Associate Professor at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden.

Dal Zotto received her PhD in Organizational and Human Resource Development at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Between 2001 and 2003 she had a post doc scholarship funded by the German Ministry of Education and her research dealt with new ventures’ growth in the media sector. In that program she supervised doctoral students and was a consultant for start-up firms.

Dal Zotto has published three books, various book chapters, and papers in the fields of organization, human resources, entrepreneurship and strategy. She has taught at the universities of Regensburg and Passau in Germany, at the University of Westminster in London, at Trento and Bolzano University, as well as at the ESC Toulouse in France. She held seminars also for the Joint Research Centre (a Directorate General of the European Commission) in Ispra, Italy. Dal Zotto was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in 2002. She also worked as Research Analyst at International Data Corporation in London during 1995 and at Reuters Venture Capital in Munich in 2001.

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