Academic Team

Dr. Rashid is a highly qualified international academic and has taught postgraduate and professional courses in Austria, Germany, Lithuania and the UK. He is the Director of Post Graduate program in International Marketing & Services Management and Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Corporate Strategy at the University of Salford.

Dr. Raj is a Principal lecturer in the Business school in Leeds Beckett University. His research interests include community events, outdoor events, economic impacts, religious tourism, cultural festivals and sustainable tourism, cultural diversity in events management and international tourism.

Senior Lecturer in Economics at Leeds Beckett University Professor Soliman’s main areas of interest are in Financial Development, International Finance, Islamic banking and Finance, Monetary Economics, Energy Economics and Financial Economics. He has been a guest editor and a referee for a number of academic journals which include Journal of Development Studies, Cogent Economics and Finance and Empirica, Energy Economics, Economic Letters, Review of Development Economics, Resources Policy and Journal of Enjoinment Management.

After extensive experience in German Bank Management, Hans Rudiger Kaufmann completed his PhD in 1997 and was research assistant and then lecturer  in the Department of Retailing and Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is now a professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Applied Management Studies Mannheim.

Professor Fass has worked in senior management at Hays (logistics), Miles Druce-GKN (industrial services) and Tricentrol (oil exploration) and now teaches at the Universities of Gloucestershire and Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD). Michael’s research interests include: leadership and corporate governance, business creation and entrepreneurship, human
resource management and SME development and support. His published works include: The Vital Economy (1990); Faith in Governance (2004); The Resilient Director (2015); Salute Me When You See Me (2016) and Napoleon’s Drop (2020).

Dr. Basile’s main research interests are: Systems Thinking Approach, Place Marketing and Management, Destination Management, CSR.

Professor Bonetti is Full Professor of Marketing and Services Marketing. He is author of numerous articles and books, and a member of the editorial board of several journals and editorial series. He is visiting professor of Marketing, Services Marketing and Tourism Marketing in various MBA courses at Italian universities and management schools. He is a member of the board of the Italian Marketing Society.

Prof. Britzelmaier has written and edited fifteen books and a number of articles in the fields of Finance, Accounting and Controlling. He is the associate editor of the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development and serves as a member of several editorial boards.

Professor Dana is Professor at Montpellier Business School, founding member of the public research centre Montpellier Research in Management. He is a member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chair, which is part of LabEx Entrepreneurship (University of Montpellier, France).

Professor Rudawska is Head of the Department of Marketing at the University of Szczecin. She is interested in issues regarding marketing, customer relationship management, business relations management, loyalty building, customer
equity, marketing management and planning and financial aspects of marketing.

Dr. Konstantopoulou is Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at Edgehill University. Her research is focused on branding, innovation in educational development.

Dr. Ryding’s research specialisms include strategic marketing, consumer behaviour and customer satisfaction theory within a UK food retailing context. She has published two text books and contributed to three others within the Strategic Marketing and Market Research field. In addition, she has published over 20 academic papers in numerous rated journals, including The British Food Journal, International Journal of Food Product Marketing and the Journal of Consumer Studies.

Dr. Mattiacci is a full professor of Marketing at Sapienza, University of Rome, and at Luiss Business School. He has served as President of the Italian Marketing Association and published over 100 contributions on marketing management. www.albertomattiacci.it

Dr. Pereira has written over 50 papers and contributed to books in the field of Operations Management and Sourcing, Management and Marketing, Sustainability and Trends in Fashion Design as well as presenting at numerous international conferences.

Professor Bengoa is Vice President for International Relations at the University of Applied Management Studies in Mannheim, Germany. Since 2018 she is also the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Association for Professional Education.
She has published over 35 academic papers, book contributions and conference proceedings in numerous rated journals including Thunderbird Journal, Journal of World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Cross Cultural Management, EuroMed Journal of Business, International Journal of
Management Cases.

Prof. Carey is currently Head of Business School at the University of Central Lancashire. Prior to working in academia, he held business and marketing related roles with major organisations including BBC Worldwide and Times Newspapers.

Dr.Osinakachukwu Ideozu has many years of experience in Nigerian politics He was a member of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and was at various times a member of the House of Representatives; Member, Rivers State House of Assembly and a one time Honourable Commissioner for Finance in Rivers State.

Dr. Sharif is an international educator who has taught, researched and trained in Western Europe, Far East, Middle East and South Asia. As a practitioner, he has consulted and delivered executive/managerial training in the United Kingdom, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Pakistan. He is an expert within the field of marketing research, sales management and high technology products marketing.

Professor Vallabh is Head of the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Management. His primary areas of interest range from Marketing, Small Businesses, Customer Relationship Management, Religious Tourism and Rural Tourism. He also currently serves as a City Councillor in Buffalo City Metropolitan City of South Africa.

Professor Bernat is a researcher and lecturer in theFaculty of Economics, Finance and Management. He has been the Chair of the Microeconomics Department and the Vice-Dean of the Faculty for over seven years.
His main areas of research are in entrepreneurship – especially in the academic scope, microeconomics, economics decisions, market concentration. He provides research on the biological (genetics) and economic factors of entrepreneurship.

Dr. Draskovic obtained his PhD in marketing from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2010 and two MSc degrees from University in Zagreb. In January 2019, Nikola assumed the position of commercial director at Colas Croatia after being a full-time senior lecturer at RIT Croatia for four years. His main research interests focus on marketing aspects of packaging, social marketing, marketing strategy and digital marketing.

Professor Horska is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management Her areas of research are internationalization of agricultural subjects on the European and global markets, opportunities of territorial expansion of the agricultural subjects in global Conditions and enforcing the theories of international marketing.

Professor Temperini teaches and researches in the Department of Management. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Montclair State University (New Jersey), and is a member of the Italian Marketing Association and the Italian Society of Management.

Dr. Feraco is Director for Technology Transfer and Innovation at Fraunhofer IDM@NTU in Singapore. He owns a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology of Programming where he focused on the business side of ICT tools and built technology transfer and business models on Interactive Digital Media.

Carmen is Vice Dean of the Department of International Relations. She is also Director of COBEREN (Consumer Behaviour Research Network), the first Network coordinated by a Spanish university to be approved by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Program 2009 selection process.

Kamalrudin’s research specialisation is in the field of Requirements Engineering focusing on the consistency of management of requirements. She also works on security requirements, concentrating on automated approaches to capture and manage the consistency of security requirements from various domains including IoT and mobile applications.

Dr.Ideozu is a Public Sector Accountant, a Certified Teacher, and Part – Time consultant in Accounting, Tax and Business Management. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), and a member of other professional bodies in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

Professor Cardinali teaches in the Department of Management. He has published in various international journals including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, Management Research Review, and the Journal of Marketing Education.

Dr. Stanton has a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods and Marketing from Syracuse University, and been in the food industry for about 40 years. He is currently professor and previously held endowed chair in the food marketing department at Saint Joseph’s, University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Hirogaki is an Associate Professor of Marketing Research and Consumer behaviour at Ehime University, Japan, where he teaches Marketing Research, Data Analysis, Quantitative Research Methods, Statistics and Mathematics for Business and Economics.

Dr. Ambrosio’s main area of research is into stakeholders in the tourism industry.

Professor Jaganjac is an Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty of Business Economics at University Vitez. She has published numerous academic papers, two textbooks and contributed to a research monograph. Her main research interests focus on entrepreneurship and strategic management of intellectual capital and knowledge. She is a member of the editorial board for a number of academic journals. She is a regular member of the International Research Academy of Science and Art- IRASA and an expert representative of the academic community in BiH at the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality assurance. She has participated in several international projects related to entrepreneurship.

Professor Nabil Ayad is Director of Global Diplomacy Programmes at Circle International, Vitez University and also a PhD supervisor to a number of research students in diplomacy and related disciplines at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) . Prior to that he was Professor of Diplomacy Studies and Director of the Postgraduate International Diplomacy Programmes at the British School of Leadership and Management, GCU London. He was the Founder and Director of The Academy of Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University in London from November 2014 to October 2017. He pioneered the concept of presenting integrated postgraduate Diplomacy programmes in the UK and has over 30 years of experience directing innovative postgraduate degrees in Diplomacy and related disciplines for staff of governments and organisations as well as for graduates aspiring to an international career.
Professor Ayad also established the Diplomatic Academy of London at the University of Westminster and served as Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Applied Languages and subsequently Rector of the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of East Anglia, London Campus.

Dr Ayad obtained his PhD from the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He has many years of academic research experience in North America, the Middle East and Europe. He is director of the Diplomatic Academy of Canada & liaison contact for Circle International in North America.

An experienced academic with an extensive background and expertise in research encompassing the interdisciplinary fields of international relations, diplomacy and international security. He is director of the Research Diplomatic Academy of Canada & liaison contact for Circle International in North America.

Dr Myszka A J Gużkowska has over 30 years’ experience as a leader in higher education, culminating in the Deputy Vice-Chancellorship of one of Britain’s largest metropolitan universities, together with a parallel military career that culminated as Assistant Director at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst commanding the UK’s 17 University Officer Training Corps.

Myszka is a Geography graduate of King’s College, London with an MBA from Henley Management College, a Masters in Forestry and Land Management and a DPhil from Jesus College, Oxford. She was awarded the Queens Volunteer Reserve Medal (QVRM) in 2009.

Dr Ibrahim Natil is a research fellow and teacher at the Institute of International Conflict Resolution & Reconstruction (IICRR), Dublin City University (DCU). His research interests cover conflict resolution, peace-building, human security, NGOs, revolutionary movements and political violence.

Dr. Natil completed his PhD in Politics at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University and his Masters in Diplomatic Studies at at the Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminster. His first degree was in English at the Faculty of Education, Al-Aqsa University, Palestine.

Fatmah has many years of experience in the field of Diplomacy whilst working at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in London for many years. She then carried on working in the field of Diplomacy in a Managerial post for the smooth running of the Masters in Diplomacy, at a Higher Education level, at the University of Westminster, University of East Anglia and Loughborough University London. She is very capable in organizing International Conferences in London and Abu Dhabi. Her approach and support to students is commendable.

Dr Alexandra J Kenyon: Alexandra has extensive research and leadership experience. She has led many enterprising projects in the fields of Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour.

Through Alexandra’s research and enterprise activities, she has an international and national reputation in the field of corporate social responsibilities and public policy and by working in collaboration with renowned organisations such as Meeting Professionals International (Dallas, US) and Welcome to Yorkshire.

Alexandra is a team member of CIRCLE International and a Professor at Vitez University; she is also on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Advertising Research, a Certified Member of the Market Research Society and a Member of the Institute of Hospitality.

Professor Richardson have gained invaluable experience of managing academic colleagues and the strategic side of the role. This included leading the MSc Marketing and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) programmes. These roles involved the allocation of staff to specific modules, ensuring standards are maintained/ increased, complying with University administrative regulations, liaising with student representatives, undertaking annual approval procedures, representing LBS at CIM events and programmes. He is As Course Director for Leeds Business School (LBS) & visiting professor to Vitez University.