For more than 30 years Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger influenced and shaped IBM's innovation and technical strategy. During his tenure he led a number of IBM's company-wide initiatives including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing and Linux. In his emeritus role, he continues to collaborate with the company on major new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet.
A widely sought after expert in the fields of innovation, technology and transformation, Dr. Wladawsky-Berger joined Citi as Strategic Advisor in March 2008, working on innovation and technology initiatives including the transition to mobile digital money and payments. Since 2005 he has been writing a weekly blog, irvingwb.com, and in April of 2012 he became a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal's CIO Journal.
He is Visiting Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School, Executive-in-Residence at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress and Senior Fellow at the Levin Institute of the State University of New York. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Inno360, ID and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives; the InnoCentive Advisory Board; the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago; and the Advisory Board of USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab.
He was co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories, of the Board of Overseers for Fermilab and of BP's Technology Advisory Council, and of BP's Technology Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.
Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago.
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