Trained as a lawyer and a specialist in international relations, Mr. Jamar worked for several years as Director of Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. Joseph Jamar joined the European Commission in 1989, where he worked successively in the education, training, press and research departments.

He is currently working for the Human Resource and Mobility Directorate within the Directorate General for Research, where he is responsible for setting up the European network of mobility centers as well as the communication policy around the Marie Curie Actions. As a Belgian and American national, Mr. Jamar has strived throughout the years to improve transatlantic relations in his areas of responsibility.

• Helping researchers out: The role and opportunities offered by the European network of mobility centres (ERA-MORE) (April 20, 2004)

Wolfgang Jank is associate professor of Decisions, Operations & Information Technologies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and is affiliated with the Center for Electronic Markets & Enterprises. He is interested in applying ideas from statistics and data mining to problems in electronic commerce, marketing, and operations management.

Dr. Jank’s research has been published in the literature of statistics, data mining, information systems, and marketing. He has authored over fifty refereed articles and book chapters, and has presented his work at national and international meetings.

Dr. Jank received his master’s degree from the Technical University of Aachen (Germany) and his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Florida. After moving to the University of Maryland, he initiated, together with Dr. Shmueli, a new research area on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce.

• eCommerce, Prediction Markets, and Data Mining (July 1, 2008)

Charlotte Jourdain is the Deputy Director of swissnex San Francisco.

San Francisco connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and competencies in science, higher education, art and innovation between Switzerland, the U.S.A and Canada. Initiated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) as a public-private venture, and managed in cooperation with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, swissnex San Francisco is an annex of the Consulate Generale of Switzerland in San Francisco. Vital financial support is provided by public and private sponsors sharing swissnex San Francisco\'s commitment to "connecting the dots."

Charlotte is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 2002.

• swissnex: Connecting the dots . . . with the Environment. Switzerland’s Initiative in Science, Technology, and Higher Education (July 13, 2005)