Dr. Alexander Buhmann is associate professor of communication at BI Norwegian Business School and director of The Nordic Alliance for Communication & Management (#NORA). Alexander received his PhD from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and held teaching and research fellowships at, among others, the University of Southern California, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism’s Center on Public Diplomacy, Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and Mid Sweden University.Alexander’s research is situated at the intersection of communication, digital technology, and management. In his work, he focuses on digitalization and automation in communication and their implications for management as well as for public and corporate governance. This entails questions, e.g., of how new technologies (such as artificial intelligence, social media or virtual reality) affect interactions between organizations and their stakeholders, and how datafication and ‘algorithmization’ in communication impede or enable the capacity for responsible and democratic governance. Alexander’s research has been published in academic journals, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, New Media & Society, Scientometrics, Technology in Society, International Communication Gazette, The Information Society, The European Journal of Communication Research, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and Public Relations Review.Alexander is a member of the core research team of the European Communication Monitor (ECM – the largest transnational study on strategic communication worldwide), a member of the academic advisory board of the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC), and a member of the expert panel on artificial intelligence at the Royal Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). Since 2020 Alexander also serves as the chair of the annual Paper Development Workshop, held during the congress of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA).In teaching, Alexander is responsible for courses in "Communication and Engagement", "Reputation and Corporate Communication", as well as “Strategic Communication Management”, and is co-program responsible for the Executive Master of Management program in Strategic Communication.