Maria Christina Binz-Scharf is Associate Professor of Management in the Economics Department at the City College of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. Her research focuses on the processes of knowledge sharing across organizational and socially constructed boundaries, with a particular interest in the role information technologies play in these processes. Using ethnographic methods, she has examined informal communication structures in various settings. Currently, she is working on two major projects: one investigates the referral patterns of primary care physicians, and the other one explores the collaborative production of scientific knowledge.

Before joining the faculty at City College in 2004, Dr. Binz-Scharf was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to her stay at Harvard, she co-founded and managed the Center of Excellence for Electronic Government at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and worked at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Binz-Scharf holds a PhD in Business Economics from the University of St. Gallen and a BA/MA from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

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