Magnus Josefsson
Innovation Manager
Manchester, England, Iceland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMagnus Josefsson is an innovation manager and research-driven strategist with 10+ years bridging public sector transformation, academic research and practical programme delivery across Iceland and the UK. He holds a PhD in Business and Management and has secured over €1M in European grants for urban energy, digital public services and social innovation while leading Reykjavik’s participation in research programmes. Comfortable moving between blue-sky thinking and disciplined project governance (PRINCE2 practitioner), he combines systems and design thinking with strengths in team building, coaching and change management. Currently developing eco-industrial parks in southern Iceland and contributing to research on digital transformation and sensemaking, Magnus uniquely blends hands-on municipal impact with active academic engagement. He favors possibilistic approaches and is known for spotting overlooked value drivers and competency traps in complex organisational contexts.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Business and Management, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Business and Management at Manchester Metropolitan University Business SchoolPgD, Management, PgD, Management at University Centre Cesar RitzMSc, Management, MSc, Management at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, Icelandic, danish / norvegian, German
Github Skills (5)
agent-based-modeling10
netlogo10
fact9
csharp5
dotnet4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruthmore/netlogo-queue
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
ruthmore/netlogo-factbase
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
A NetLogo extension providing a fact base as a new data type.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 3 years 10 months
dotnetfactcsharpdata-typenetlogo
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.