Christine Gardiol provides her readers a rare level of expertise, depth and breadth in the field of information. As early as the 1980s, she assessed the potential needs for an audiovisual series on occupational safety and health by collecting information from several experts and printed documents (nothing online yet). As computers became increasingly accessible to the average individual, she later developed video tutorials to teach the basics of computer software. A researcher at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and later a project manager (and consultant) of R&D European Union projects in the 1990s, she worked in the early days of knowledge management. During the same decade, in 1996, she designed one of the first 257’000 commercial websites, only five years after the whole web adventure began in her city, Geneva (Switzerland), at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research).
After earning an MBA, she managed the operations of a competitive intelligence company, where a piece of information could often be worth millions of dollars. Furthermore, for the last 19 years, she has been employed as a business information specialist at a large global financial company, researching all kinds of sectors, fields, technologies, and concepts, in many languages and with access to more than thirty different search tools, besides extensive web searching.
A leading expert in the field of information, she is passionate about all aspects of information, knowledge, and intelligence. Furthermore, she has a Master’s degree in Old English semantics (the science of meaning) as well as education in cognitive sciences (the interdisciplinary study of the mind and intelligence).
For the third Handbook, Christine Gardiol enlisted her 22-year-old son, Théo Gardiol, for his vision and expertise in the Z-generation’s new channels of information as well as his expertise in audiovisual technologies and social networks.
