Bio

Trond A. Undheim (37), Ph.D., a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and Managing Director of Tautec Consulting, has over fifteen years of multi sector experience in strategy, policy, communications, academia, and entrepreneurship. Formerly, he was a Director of Standards Strategy and Policy at Oracle Corporation, with wide responsibilities in long-term business development, strategy, public policy and standardization globally and in Europe.  Trond is an executive, speaker, entrepreneur, author, traveler and blogger.  With a doctorate on knowledge work and the internet in Silicon Valley, he is one of the world’s leading experts on technology and society.  He has worked at Oracle Corporation, the European Commission, the Norwegian Government, and founded a start-up.  He was awarded an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from NTNU, Norway’s top engineering university, as the youngest candidate at the Faculty.  He is multilingual and has lived on three continents.  He is always ready for strategic opportunities providing significant intellectual and managerial challenges.