Conference Chair

Ingjaldur Hannibalsson

Ingjaldur Hannibalsson is professor in Business Administration at the University of Iceland. His main subjects are operations management and international business. Dr. Hannibalsson has a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the University of Iceland and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Ohio State University. Dr. Hannibalsson has taught at the University of Iceland since 1978. He was a part time lecturer and later associate professor until 1993 when he became a full time associate professor and in 1997 he became professor.

Dr. Hannibalsson has been chairman of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Iceland. He has been chairman of the University council’s finance committee since 1997 and chairman of the University council’s facilities committee since 2003. He was Director of the Division of management and operations of the University 2001-2003. Dr. Hannibalsson has been chairman of the board of the Icelandic Tourism Research Center from it’s foundation in 1999.

Dr. Hannibalsson worked for 15 years in industry. He was manager of the Technical division of the Federation of Icelandic Industries, Director of the Technological Institute of Iceland, Director of Alafoss ltd. (a textile firm) and Director of the Export Council of Iceland.

Current research interests are university managment including financing and governance as well as international business.