Martin J. Eppler ^{Top-Executive}

Full professor of communications management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Director of the =mcm institute for media and communications management.

Global communication, innovation, visualization, and strategy researcher, trainer, speaker, and advisor.

Author of 27 books, among them Meet up! (Cambridge University Press, International Book Award), Design your Future, An Introduction to Visual Variation, Sketching at Work, Debias by Design, Dynagrams, Visipedia, Creability, Life Design, Life Design Action Book, Visual Communication Design, Management Atlas, Office Monsters (short business book highly commended award), Managing Information Quality, and How to Talk about Data (Financial Times Publishing), as well as over 300 scientific articles, in journals such as Organization Studies, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions, JMMR, Management Research Review, Computers in Human Behavior, Design Studies, Long Range Planning, Management Decision, Journal of Business Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research, Nature Communications Sustainability.

Inventor of the lets-focus software suite, the Confluence Dynagram, the Synergy Map, the Paths to Success ideation method, the VisualVariation Patterns, the Concept Skeleton and Idea Blueprint, the Bias Map (bias.visual-literacy.org), the periodic table of visualization, the TUNER debiasing approach, the CollabCards card set and the LitRev patterns.

Top 2% of all scientists worldwide according to Stanford. Research featured in various media outlets including the Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, MIT Technology Review, BusinessWeek, Ted.com, and others.

Prior appointments as guest professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), the Simon Fraser Beedie School of Business (Vancouver), the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, at Universidad Pacifico in Lima, at EAFIT in Medellin, and at Aalto University, Helsinki, as well as a senior visiting fellow of Cambridge University (UK). Lecturer in various MBA and executive programs throughout Europe, the Americas, Saudi Arabia, and Asia. Frequent keynote speaker (TED, Learntec, EO, Change Congress, Economist Day, Iknow, EU, insurance summit, asut).