Silviya Svejenova, Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, and Chair of the SCANCOR Board

Silviya is an Academic Co-director of the CBS Leadership Centre and imagine.. Creative Industries and Institutions Centre. She is an organizational scholar who investigates how creativity, innovation, and strategic leadership enable sustainable futures in contexts such as corporate C-suite, creative industries, emergency food relief, public libraries, and craft-based collaborations, among others. Her research has contributed to the understanding of visuality, materiality, and temporality in organization studies as well as to institutional renewal. Silviya has published academic articles, books, and book chapters, as well as co-edited special issues of academic journals. Her published work has received the EGOS Book Award 2024, the Roland Calori Prize 2021 for a best paper published in Organization Studies and the European Management Review 2016 and 2021 best paper awards. Silviya has been a Chair of EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies, member of the EGOS Executive Board, and senior editor for Organization Studies. Currently she is Division PDW Chair of the OMT (Organization & Management Theory) division of the Academy of Management and VP research of IFSAM, the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Theory. She has been a visiting fellow at SCANCOR Stanford in 2010 and SCANCOR Harvard in 2020. In 2018 she co-hosted the 2018 SCANCOR PhD Workshop at CBS.