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TDAS Lifetime Achievement Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lifetime Achievement Awards is a biannual award and it is only given when an appropriate honoree is available. The two honorees receive a suitable plaque and they are invited to opening\/closure session at a TDAS Conference.<\/p>\n

2018\u00a0TDAS Lifetime Achievement Awards winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tawfik Jelassi<\/strong> is Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at IMD Business School in Lausanne (Switzerland).\u00a0 He is also Director of the\u00a0OWP\u00a0program<\/a><\/u> in Lausanne and Singapore, which is IMD\u2019s largest executive education program (attracting annually 600 executives).\u00a0 Before joining IMD, Dr. Jelassi was Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies in the transition-to-democracy Government of Tunisia. \u00a0Prior to that, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ooredoo Tunisia, the leading mobile telecom operator in the country. \u00a0Between 2000 and 2013, he was Professor and Dean of the School of International Management at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es (Paris). \u00a0Prior to that, he was Associate Professor and Chairman of the Technology Management Department at INSEAD (Fontainebleau).\u00a0Dr. Jelassi holds a Ph.D. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University (USA).\u00a0 His teaching and research interests are in the area of digital transformation and leadership.\u00a0 His publications appeared in leading conference proceedings and refereed academic journals, including\u00a0MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, as well as in practitioner-oriented publications such as Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and the European Management Journal. He has also published six books, the latest of which entitled \u201cStrategies for e-Business\u201d (Pearson, 2014) was translated into Chinese and Korean.\u00a0 His case studies received numerous awards from the European Foundation for Management Department (EFMD), the UK-based Case Centre, and the US-based Society for Information Management.\u00a0Professor Jelassi has taught extensively on MBA, Executive MBA and executive education programs in over a dozen countries around the world.\u00a0 He was granted in Europe and the USA several teaching excellence awards.\u00a0 Furthermore, the President of Tunisia awarded him two national decorations: \u201cThe Order of merit in the fields of education and science\u201d and \u201cThe Order of the Republic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Slaheddine Hellara\u00a0<\/strong>(IHE Founding)<\/p>\n

Rules and Regulations<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first Lifetime Achievement Award is intended to honor the highest level of achievement in Decision Aid by a business leader.\u00a0\u00a0The Award Criteria are:<\/p>\n