Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. The Thinkers 50, the world's first ranking of management thinkers, ranked Ridderstrale and his colleague Dr. Kjell A. Nordstrom at number 17 (one place below Nicholas Negroponte and one ahead of Stephen Covey).

Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. The Thinkers 50, the world's first ranking of management thinkers, ranked Ridderstrale and his colleague Dr. Kjell A. Nordstrom at number 17 (one place below Nicholas Negroponte and one ahead of Stephen Covey).

His uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made Dr. Jonas one of today's most sought after speakers. He practices what he so persuasively preaches. He is an advisor, lecturer and consultant to a number of international corporations and is also on the board of several companies.

Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale's day job is as an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics. Dr. Jonas has a Ph.D. and an MBA from the same school. He has run the School's Advanced Management Program, a five-week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian business leaders. Dr. Jonas was recently recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year.

His current research focuses on new organizational models and leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including Business Strategy Review, Organization Science and the Financial Times. Dr. Jonas contributed to the best-selling Financial Times Handbook of Management and Business: The Ultimate Resource. He is on the editorial board of The Capstone Business Encyclopaedia.

His latest book, Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance (co-authored with Kjell A. Nordstrom) is a manifesto for the new world of business. The book, which was recently rated by Bloomsbury Publishing as the 16th best management book ever written, is an international bestseller and has been featured on CNN and CNBC. It has also appeared in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, The Times, Paris Match, Handelsblatt, etc. So far, it has been translated into more than 25 languages. Together with Kjell A Nordstrom, Jonas is working on a new book that will be published late in 2003.

In his talks, Dr. Jonas discusses topics such as The Next Economy; Taming Talent; Capitalising on Competencies; Monopolies, Models and Moods; and Getting to the Future First.