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Arnold Picot is a professor of Business Administration at the Munich School of Management (LMU) and the head of Information, Organization and Management unit at the school. After studying Business Administration and Economics, he obtained his two Doctor's degrees in 1972 and 1975 at the University of Munich. Before Prof. Picot joined the LMU in 1988, he was a professor at the University of Hanover, at Stanford University, and at the Technische Universität, Munich. In 1998, he obtained a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Technische Universität/Bergakademie Freiberg, and another one in 2002 from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Recently he was the Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C..

Prof. Picot is an Ordinary Fellow (and currently Secretary) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has held and is holding various positions in boards and advisory committees of research institutions, among them the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Schmalenbachgesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft, Verein für Socialpolitik, German Academic Association for Business Research. He is coeditor of several scientific journals and maintains close relations with the business world e.g. as member of several supervisory boards in public corporations.