Prof. Anne-Laure Mention is the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform, Research & Innovation, and Professor of Management, School of Management, College of Business and Law, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia; a Visiting Professor at Université de Liège, Belgium; Deputy Head of the Centre d’Evaluation de la Performance des Entreprises; and Visiting Professor at Tampere University, Finland. She holds several other visiting positions in Europe and Asia.
Anne-Laure is also one of the Founding Editors of the Journal of Innovation Management, and currently holds the position of Director, Community Engagement & Impact to the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Board, (previously, from 2012-2018, was the Deputy Head of the Advisory Board, until its discontinuation). She is the Co-Editor of a book series on Open Innovation, published by World Scientific/Imperial College Press. Her research interests revolve around open and collaborative innovation, innovation in business-to-business services, with a particular focus on the financial industry and FinTech, technology management, and business venturing. She has been awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award twice for her research on innovation and most recently was recipient of the 2023 ABDC Network Award for Innovation & Excellence in International Engagement & Education, for the H2020 OpenInnoTrain Project, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (MSCA-RISE) Scheme.