Dr. Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood is a professional consultant and researcher with academic and industrial experience in mobile technology research, business models analysis, telecommunications strategy, mobile payments, big data in the UK, the Netherlands and in multidisciplinary projects at EU/International level (USA, Latin America and Asia) in socio technical areas. Industry qualified engineer (CCNP, CCNA, MSc(Eng), BSc) with a telecoms and Internet background (networking, economic models and IP). She currently is an adjunct Professor at Florida International University (FIU,USA). In the past she has been a Visiting Scholar at FIU, Adjunct Professor at the University of Syracuse (NY, USA), Associated research fellow at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and Research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, UK). She obtained her PhD at the Information Systems at the Department of Management at the LSE. Specialization Mobile technology, distributed working..