Manuel Kolp is Full Professor in IT (Information Systems) and Vice-Dean at the LSM Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain. 

He was a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, for a couple of years and worked there with the Department of Computer Science in Requirements Management and Multi-Agent Software Engineering. He was also an adjunct professor in Knowledge and Information Management at the Faculty of Information Studies in the same university.

He has also been invited professor with the Universitary Faculties St. Louis of Brussels from 2006 to 2011, with the University of Brussels from 2002 to 2008 and abroad such as at the University of Tandil, Argentina, the French Institute of Computer Science (IFI), Vietnam, the ITC - Institute of Technology of Cambodia, the Baltic Management Institute, Lithuania, the University of Ancona, Italy, the University of Toronto, Canada, ...

Previously, he was a FNRS (Belgian National Agency for Scientific Research) research fellow in Knowledge Representation and Object Oriented Information Systems with IAG-LSM at the Université catholique de Louvain and received his PhD degree in Information Science (Information Systems) with First Class Honours from the University of Brussels with a thesis on Conceptual Modeling and Metaobject Protocols.

In the fall of 2001, he moved back from Canada to Belgium, joining full-time the LSM regular faculty at UCL first as an associate professor, then as a full professor. 

Manuel Kolp has also been collaborating as a lead investigator on projects dealing with knowledge, information and data systems or e-business and ERP II applications. Such projects involve industries, public administrations and enterprises such as CARSID (Duferco-Usinor), SONACA, Caterpillar, Trasys, Ansys-Fluent (Benelux), the Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, the  Federal Retirement Administration, ETNIC, CITOBI, Denali, Cediti or the Walloon Region (Marschall Plan) for instance in the TransLogisTIC project. 

Manuel Kolp regularly acts as an IT expert and advisor for such organizations. He also serves as an executive education instructor for IT staff and managers with competency centers such as TechnofuturTIC or IUFC.

Dr. Kolp is mainly involved in academic and fundamental research at UCL as head of the SKwyRL and Descartes project on agent oriented e-business systems architectures and software project management. His research work deals also with e-business and ERP II systems methodologies. He also coordinates the SAP Higher Education and Research Agreement at UCL.

In addition to be program committee member or associate editor of international conferences and workshops in information systems, software engineering and multi-agent systems such as AAMAS, WI, CAiSE, ISCW, <<UML>>, ICEIS, ECIS, EISIC, AOSE, STRAW or AOIS, Manuel Kolp has been one of the organizers of <<UML>>2001, the 4th IEEE - International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, CAiSE'02, the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering and VLDB'04, the 30th International Conference in Very Large Databases and co-chair of AOIS 2005 and 2006, the 8th and 9th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent Oriented Information Systems. 

Manuel Kolp is the author or co-author of about 100 articles and papers in international journals, conferences, books and workshops and has edited or written 4 books. He is also a reviewer for international scientific journals and for foreign national and international research agencies such as NSF (USA) NSERC (Canada) or CNR (Italy) and for the European Commission.

He is member of different professional and international associations and is included in the 10th Anniversary (2008-2009) Edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering.