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Nigel Holden

Nigel Holden has been a professor of cross-cultural management in the UK, Denmark and Germany and has more than 25 years’ experience of investigating how firms understand and apply cross-cultural knowledge. His academic output is four books, 25 book chapters and over 150 scholarly articles, conference papers, research reports and monographs.

His pioneering book Cross-cultural management: A knowledge management perspective (2002) has been hailed as ‘seminal’, ‘outstanding’ and ‘a milestone in the development of cross-cultural management.’

Since 1988 he has given more than 50 keynote addresses to academic gatherings and practitioner audiences throughout Europe as well in the USA, Russia, Japan and Taiwan.

In 2008 and 2009 he gave keynote addresses to international workshops for UN agencies on culture and knowledge management. In April 2009 he was appointed to the International Expert Group on Nuclear Knowledge Management of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. In 2010 he was invited to join the academic board of the Ikujiro Nonaka Knowledge Management Centre at IESE Business School in Spain.