José Luis Alvarez, Academic Director of the Corporate Governance Center and Senior Affiliate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD,Silviya Svejenova, Professor in Leadership and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School

José Luis Alvarez is the Academic Director of INSEAD's Corporate Governance Center and Senior Affiliate Professor of the school's Organizational Behavior Area. Since earning his Ph.D. in the Sociology of Organizations from Harvard University, where he has been visiting faculty, he has worked on the
interface between the neo-institutional school and political theories of organizations. He has also researched and taught on the career paths of senior managers and the power structures of organizations: executive committees, executive leadership, boards of directors, and stakeholders, with a
special emphasis on their social and political dynamics.

Silviya Svejenova is Professor in Leadership and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), where she co-directs imagine.. Centre for Creative Industries and Institutions, and is a member of the Centre for Organization and Time (COT). Her research is at the intersection of organization studies,
innovation, and leadership. She obtained her PhD at IESE Business School in 2002 and, prior to joining CBS in 2012, has been on the faculty of Cranfield School of Management and ESADE Business School. She has been Chair and Executive Board member of EGOS, the European Group for Organizational
Studies, and is currently a Senior Editor of Organization Studies.