Waltraut RITTER is a research director of Knowledge Enterprises, which she founded in Hong Kong in 1997, specializing in research and advisory services relating to innovation, knowledge, and intellectual capital. She has worked in information and knowledge management since 1989, when she served as information management consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva and New York. In recent years, she has focused on the knowledge economy and innovation initiatives for national and international agencies in the public sector. Ms. Ritter holds teaching and research assignments at the University of Hong Kong, the Singapore Management University (SMU), the University of Mysore (India) and advises universities on curriculum development in the field of knowledge economy and innovation. She holds an M.A. in information science and sociology from the Free University of Berlin and an M.B.A. from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.