emma Award

2025 – Ulrike Rohn

In 2025, the emma award goes to… Ulrike Rohn! Ulrike Rohn is a Professor of Media Management and Economics at Tallinn University’s Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Estonia. …

2024 – John Oliver

2023 – Robert Picard

Prof. Robert G. Picard is one of the world’s leading academic experts on media and communications and a long-time contributor to emma. Robert received his Ph.D. at the University of …

2022-Leona Achtenhagen

Prof. Dr. Leona Achtenhagen is Director of the Media, Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School; and Editor-in-chief of ‘Journal of Media Business Studies’. Leona received her …

2021-Rolf Lundin

Rolf A. Lundin, affiliated as professor emeritus at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) and Jönköping Business School (JIBS), Sweden, received the 2021 emma Award in recognition of …

2019 – Gabriele Siegert

Laudatory by Ulrike Rohn, emma President, June 7, 2019, Limassol, Cyprus  It is my great pleasure to announce that this year’s emma award goes to Gabriele Siegert from the University of Zurich …

2018 – Gregory Ferrell Lowe

Laudatory Speech by emma President Ulrike Rohn in Warsaw, Poland, on June 15, 2018:    As President of emma, it is my great honor and privilege to announce the recipient of this …

2016-Heinz-Werner Nienstedt

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt, born 1949, is Professor emeritus at the Department of Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany, where he held the chair for Media Management. He was one …

2017 – Lucy Küng

Laudatory Speech by emma President Ulrike Rohn in Ghent, Belgium, on May 12, 2017:   The recipient of the 2017 emma Award is well known to everyone interested in the …

2015 – Mihály Gálik

Laudatory speech by Gregory F. Lowe: As frequently remarked, our field of scholarship in media management and economics is young. We have left the toddler years behind us, but we …