CREATIVITY TESTING - Key Persons
Angela Kar, Senior Researcher, is a current Ph.D. student at Seoul National University, in the field of Strategy and International Management. Previously, she completed a Master of Global Business at the University of Victoria in Canada, with modules extending to the following partner institutions: Montpellier Business School (France) and Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea). She also completed a Bachelor of Commerce with specialization in International Management at the University of Ottawa. Prior to entering her Ph.D. program, she served as a policy analyst in the Europe and Eurasia Bureau, as well as a marketing communications assistant in the International Education Division, at Global Affairs Canada.
Mark Runco, Ph.D., received his B.A. from Claremont Men's College and M.A.
Job Titles:
- Senior IT & Analytic Associate
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow at CTS
Ivonne Chand O'Neal is Senior Research Fellow at CTS and brings more
than 25 years of experience in the fields of research and evaluation to
the work of building equitable learning opportunities for children, youth,
and families. She received graduate training in cognitive psychology
with an emphasis on creativity and program evaluation, serving as a
researcher on the Good Work Project, a collaboration between
Claremont Graduate University, Harvard Graduate School of Education,
and Stanford University. She then served as an Associate Curator for
the Museum of Creativity Project, followed by her work as Project Directo
and Co-Investigator at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine,
where she studied creativity at the Cousins Center for
Psychoneuroimmunology. Prior to joining CTS, she served as the founding
Director of Research and Evaluation for the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts where she designed the first center-wide research
agenda comprised of more than 25 national and international research
studies examining the positive impacts of the arts on society. Projects
included examining the impact of such programs as Changing Education
through the Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, National Symphony
Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Scottish Ballet, Any Given Child,
Ballet with Suzanne Farrell, Theater for Young Audiences, and the One Mic:
Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival, and assessing accessibility to the arts
for K-12 students living with disabilities. Through this work, she has
presented and published widely on issues of artistic and imaginative
development, arts access and equity, participatory evaluation, and arts
assessment. Her book, Arts Evaluation: Measuring Impact in Schools and
Communities, will be released by Palgrave Macmillan in Fall 2017.
Mark Runco, Ph.D., received his B.A. from Claremont Men's College and M.A.
Job Titles:
- President of the Academy of Creativity
- Professor
Namgyoo K. Park is the president of the Academy of Creativity in Korea.
He hasreceived two PhDs in the field of Management: one in Strategy
from Seoul National University and the other in International Business and
Management from NYU's Stern School of Business. He lectured at NYU,
the University of Miami and KAIST. He currently teaches at Seoul National
University (SNU) since 2006. He has served in a variety of positions
over the last eight years at SNU Business School, including associate deans,
department chair, and program director. His primary area of research
interest includes creativity and innovation, which began while he was
investigating inter-organizational activities, such as collaboration and
competition. He has published more than 20 papers in preferred
management journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Creativity
Research Journal, Journal of Management, Strategic Organization,
and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has been collecting creativity
data at the individual, team, and organizational levels since 2007. To date,
he has collected individual creativity data of 18,382 people in Korea and
plans to increase this figure up to about 100,000 in the coming years.
He also published several books, such as Strategic Thinking (2007),
Creative Management (2016), Creativity Revolution (2018),
Think Creative (2020), and Creativity with Random Combination
Method (2021). At SNU Business School, he currently teaches
"Creativity and Innovation" for the undergraduate and MBA programs,
as well as a "Research Seminar on Creativity and Innovation"
for the PhD program since 2007.