Supervising Faculty

Dr. A.L. Alcorta
Professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation. Holds a BSc in Economics from the Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru 1976, a Licenciatura in Economics from the Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru 1991, an MPhil degree in Development Studies, from the University of Sussex, 1983 and a PhD degree from the University of Sussex, 1991, United Kingdom. Areas of expertise: Economics and Management of Technology, Industrial and Technology Policy, Developments Economics and Economic Policy and Planning. Dr. Alcorta came to The Netherlands in 1991 and worked as a Research Fellow at the United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH) and since has published extensively on the diffusion of advanced automation in developing countries and technology and industrial policy. His current research interests include technological learning and innovation, with a geographical focus on Latin America and China. Dr. Alcorta lectures Economics and Technology and Innovation Management (TIM), the latter also at the EuroMBA, an European MBA degree developed by consortium of European Universities led by the Netherlands’ Open University.

Dr. H. Amin
Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo. He holds several key positions in national, regional and global media. He is chairman of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU’s) Research and Development Committee and a member of ERTU’s. Board of Trustees, the governing body of Egypt’s radio and television broadcasting organization. Dr. Amin is the former president for the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) and past chairman of the International Division of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). Amin serves on the advisory Board of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), the Journal of International Communication (JIC), the Journal of African Media Studies and the Journal of the Middle East Media (JMEM). He is the senior editor of Transnational Broadcasting Studies (TBS), Arabic editor of the Global Media Journal (GMJ) and Middle East editor of the Journal of Global Media and Communication Journal. Dr. Amin has taught a wide range of subjects from mass media research to radio and television broadcasting to global journalism and has given lectures in many universities around the world. His research interests include Egyptian and Arab media systems, media convergence, global and transnational broadcasting, Arab media Laws and Regulations, new information and communication technologies, and the impact of these new technologies on development. He has extensive experience in many areas of mass communication, including broadcasting management, strategy formulation and implementation, media law and regulations, communication planning and policies as well as marketing and administration. Dr. Amin was honored by the three major associations in the field of Journalism and Mass Communication: the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). He is in high demand as a speaker, with over twenty keynote addresses to international European, American, and African academic and professional associations conferences including Article 19, Global Fusion, AUSACE, Trading Culture (Sheffield-UK), the European Union, UNESCO and the Freedom Forum. In 2006, he was the Chair of the 25th Annule and General Assembly International Association for Media and Communication Research, the most important Academic Media Conference probably in the world.

Dr. S. Ankolekar
Senior Project Consultant and Professor of e-Business & Business Analytics. He is also a consultant to Cytel Inc. in USA. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Bombay, a Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Bombay), and a PhD from Indian Institute of Management (IIM, Ahmedabad). Prior to joining MSM in 1989, he was an industrial engineer (1974-1977) at Larsen & Toubro in Bombay, and Assistant Professor (1982-1985) and Associate Professor (1985-1988) at IIM in Ahmedabad. He developed commercial software to solve large-scale optimization problems in transportation systems based on his research at the IIM. At MSM, he is involved in the executive education in IT management and business analytics. He is also a consultant to major technical consultancy and institution building projects executed by the MSM for international development agencies and sponsors. Presently, he is leading one such Dutch-sponsored capacity building project in Zambia involving substantial IT and e-Learning infrastructure. At Cytel, he is involved in research and development of analytical products and services in clinical trials and health sciences.

Dr. H.F. Ali
Professor of Accounting.
Holds a BCom from Cairo University (Egypt), a MS in Financial Analysis and a PhD from the University of Illinois (USA) in the area of Accounting and Finance. Further, he has professional designation in the field of accounting (Certified General Accountant of Canada), fraud examination (Certified Fraud Examiner) from the USA, and in anti-noney laundering (Certified Anit-Money Laundering Specialist) from the USA too. He has performed numerous consultancy assignments in the areas of financial and accountancy systems in addition to administrative organizational and feasibility studies and has taught at several universities in North America and the Middle East. His research interests are in accounting and related business areas, applying factor analysis to financial statement ratios, and the strategic dimension of management accounting. Lectures Financial Accounting, Advanced Management Accounting, and Management Control Systems.

Dr. J.I.A. Alumran
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Bahrain (UoB) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) in the United States. She held the position of Dean of Student Affairs (1999-2002) at the UoB and has also occupied the position of Chairperson of the Psychology Department (1988-1992). In 2004-2005, she took a sabbatical leave to conduct a joint research in the field of coping and emotional intelligence at the University of Tampere in Finland. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational and Psychological Sciences. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is also a member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC). she works as an expert and trainer on parenting, giftedness, and various educational topics. Her main research areas are: academic achievement, emotional intelligence, multiple intelligences, and learning styles. Her research has been published in regional and international journals and she has also participated in many regional and international conferences. She is an actively involved in community service and has obtained the First Award for Community Service at the UoB.


Dr. I. Azzam
Assistant Professor of Finance at the American University of Cairo (AUC) and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. Dr. Azzam has a cumulative eleven years of experience in consultation and academic teaching of finance and economics. He is currently specialized in teaching investment and portfolio management, financial economics, international finance and derivatives, and has previously worked in Cairo University, Helwan University, London School of Economics (International Program) and the University of California, Irvine. Furthermore, Dr. Azzam has a long experience in the consultation career. He is currently a senior advisor to the Minister of Investment in Egypt and has previously worked as a full-time advisor for the Chairman of the Capital Market Authority in Egypt. He has been involved in decision making by participating in the legal and regulatory formulation process as well as strategic planning for the Capital Market Authority in Egypt. In addition, he has extensive experience in the carrying out surveillance duties over companies working in the Egyptian stock market. Dr. Azzam has also conducted large number of empirical market and economic studies on the capital market in Egypt. Dr. Azzam has some working papers and publications in the areas of financial econometrics. His recent publication is “Azzam, Islam. (2006). Accounting for Dual Uncertainty about Lag Order and Cointegration Rank in Vector Error Correction (VEC) Models, International Journal of Research in Economics and Finance, July 2006. (with Eskandar Tooma)”.

S. De Bono, DBA
Silvio De Bono has been in the teaching profession for the last 12 years during which he has lectured in Human Resource Management and Development, Behavioral Sciences as well as Change Management and Business Re-engineering Practices. Dr. De Bono holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Maastricht School of Management. He is also a post graduate in Human Resources from the University of Malta and holds qualifications in Training and Development from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development in the United Kingdom. He has vast experience in Strategic Human Resource Management and Development issues and has consulted as number of Companies particularly in the service industry. His main research interests are in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Dr De Bono is an Assistant Professor with Maastricht School of Management and a visiting lecturer with the University of Malta.

Dr. K. Button
FIHT, FCIT. He is recipient of the Transportation Research Forum Distinguished Researcher Award. He is University Professor and is Director of both the Center for Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics and the Center for Aerospace Policy Research in the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. He is also Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Porto and Visiting Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Bologna. From 1994 to 1996 he was Conseiller in the Advisory Unit to the Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris where he headed work on international aviation policy. At that time he was on leave from being concurrently Professor of Applied Economics and Transport at Loughborough University, UK and VSB Visiting Professor of Transport and the Environment at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. He was the Special Advisor to the UK House of Common Transport Committee from 1993 to 1994. In 1990 he was full-time Consultant to the OECD Environmental Directorate. He has held visiting post at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at Berkley. He has published, or has in press, some 100 books, over 400 papers in academic journals, and forecasting software. He has given written and oral evidence to the US Congressional Transportation Committee and to both the UK House of Lords and UK House of Commons Transport Committees on transportation issues. He is editor of the journals Transportation Research D: Transport and the Environment and Journal of Air Transport Management and is on the editorial boards of ten other journals. He is on the scientific committee of the World Conference on Transport Research and on the Committee of the Air Transportation Research Society. He has completed consultancy projects for the major international agencies (the World Bank, the OECD, and the UN - including ICAO), for regional bodies (APEC and the EU – including the ECMT), national governments and their agencies (the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, USA, Belgium, Germany. etc) and local governments as well as public and private companies.

Prof. Dr. E.J. de Bruijn
He holds the chair International Management in the School of Business, Public administration and Technology of the University of Twenty, the Netherlands.
He obtained a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technische Hogeschool Twente and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of Massachusetts. U.S.A., and a Ph.D. at the University of Twente on production in developing economies
His current research and teaching area concern international management, with a specialisation on enterprises in newly industrialising economies, specifically in Asia and Africa. Central in this research is technology transfer, joint venture development, international manufacturing and introduction of modern management methods in emerging economies. He is regularly involved in evaluation projects in developing economies and advisory work for the Dutch Government and in international operating companies.

Prof. Dr. J.Chr. van Dalen
Visiting professor Strategy, Marketing, Supply chain Management and related subjects with Maastricht School of Management and emeritus professor Management Studies at Wageningen University. Serves also at several Universities around the globe as visiting professor. Parallel with his professorship at Wageningen University he was co-initiator and board member of the nationwide restructuring programme for the Food- and Agricultural sector in The Netherlands. Following this initiative other European and non-European countries initiated likewise restructuring programs, building on advisory services by prof. Van Dalen and colleagues. Before joining MSM, as well as the Wageningen University, he was Director-Dean of the Faculty of Business and Public Administration at the Dutch Open University. During this period the international Euro-MBA program, shared by all European distance teaching Universities, was developed and tested. The period with the Open University was preceded by professorships with the Twente University (a technical University) and with the University of Amsterdam. His academic career was interrupted by professional jobs in business and government as a consultant and director Human resource Management. In the latter positions he reorganised several businesses and government bodies. Prof. Van Dalen received his education and training as a mechanical engineer, a management consultant and a mathematical economist. His PhD dissertation was about agenda setting in organizations. Present-day experience is esp. focussed on strategic issues in health care (service, technology, pharmacy), construction and other industries, with a strong focus on networks of organizations, and on regulatory (compliance) tasks as board member of a court of audit in The Netherlands. Research is strongly related to subjects by PhD students, like policy development in the sphere of industry and economic affairs, and related with a special interest in New Economy developments, like chain c.q. network organisations and experience economy c.q. marketing. Prof. Van Dalen is fulfilling some non-executive board functions in a variety of organizations. Publications, books and articles, cover subjects like Organizational Diagnostics, Restructuring, Supply Chain Strategies, Decision making and ICT applications, and Government Policy Making. During his international activities he was e.g. engaged in EU-projects in China, Institutional Development in Vietnam, and projects on New Educational Structures in USA.

Dr. P.E. Ederer
Head of the Innovation and Growth Project of Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Adjunct Professor of the Rotterdam School of Management and Associate Professor of Strategy of the Strategy Academy, an international research and educational institution focusing on strategy, leadership and business innovation issues. He is also Principal of Strategy Works, an international strategy consulting and coaching firm that facilitates boardroom decision-making and guides companies through processes of strategic renewal. His clients comprise of some the fastest growing companies in Europe, or CEO’s who want to accelerate growth through innovation and value-creation oriented strategies. He studied Business Administration at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and at Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. He completed his PHD at University of Witten Herdecke in Germany, exploring the financial relationship between the state and citizens. In 1995 he co-authored the business best-selling book “Das Erbe der Egoisten”, a socio-economic comparison of Germany, Japan and USA. In 1999 he co-authored a second best-selling book, “Geschäftsbericht Deutschland AG”, an analytical description of the German state as if it was a stock market quoted company. Numerous articles and brochures have followed on this subject, including participation on a variety of expert panels for the German government. He started his business career as a financial trader at Deutsche Bank in Japan, trading interest rate derivatives and money market instruments. He worked for four years in the German office of McKinsey & Co. specializing on issues of technology management and business growth. He subsequently co-founded a Dutch technology company specializing in food supplements. He also co-founded the think tank “Deutschland Denken!”, which is creating and publishing innovative public policy choices for the German society.
The underlying theme to his background ranging from financial trader, public policy expert to technology start-up entrepreneur is his long-standing love affair and fascination with the power of strategy. Strategy is the “poor-man’s tool” to be successful against the odds by generating innovation and growth.

Dr. M. Elmasry
Dean of Faculty of Management Sciences MSA University and Professor of Market Research. Dr. Elmasry also is Visiting Professor of Strategic Management and Project Management and Senior Associate and Principal Consultant of AIT Consulting. Before this he was partner at KPMG where he was responsible for Environmental Services Development. The core activities covered consulting services to public and private sector companies; and to the Government of Egypt’s Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. His PhD is from the University of Manchester, UK. He completed his dissertation in Economics in 1971. He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Science and a MSc in Material Engineering. His key qualifications are Market Research, Project Management, Design, development and implementation of operational audits, Development and deployment of strategic management plans for service, manufacturing and governmental organizations, Business development in service and manufacturing operations, Review and evaluation of donor agencies funded projects and Design, preparation and organization of training programs and workshops. Dr. Elmasri is a member of the National Board of Trustees of SOS Children Villages - A non-governmental organization. He is also on the Board of the Egyptian British Friendship Association.

Dr. F.M. Fawzi
Associate Consultant Maastricht School of Management and Visiting Professor of Quantitative Methods. He has extensive experience as a consultant and trainer in areas of quality management, marketing and marketing research. He teaches in several MBA and PhD/DBA programs ao: Argentina, Sudan, Egypt, Philippines, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. His international experience includes most MEDA countries, including long-term work experience in a/o Egypt and Syria. He is a founding member and honorary member of many professional bodies in the field of Quality control. He also is the Director of International Centre for Quality and Management Sciences (ICQMS). In this position he is responsible for the general management, planning, supervision and execution of the Centre’s activities, as well as teaching some selected courses in Quality Control and International Marketing. His PhD is from Pennsylvania State University. In 1964 he completed his dissertation in Mineral Economics and Applied Statistics. He also holds a MSc in Mineral Economics and Mineral Engineering. He supervised several MBA, PhD and DBA theses and dissertations on various projects.

Dr. V. Feltkamp
Assistant professor of E-business. He holds a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) (Belgium) and a PhD in Game Theory from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He was a Post-Doc at the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, He lectured Mathematical Optimization at the Economic Faculty of the University of Alicante, Spain, He was a statistical researcher in Statistics Netherlands (CBS), and a senior Researcher in e-organisation in the International Institute of Infonomics. Lectures Management Information Systems, Decision making tools, Quantitative Techniques, Operations Management, e-Commerce and E-business Technology.

Dr. S.F. Foster
Consultant at Maastricht School of Management in Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Foster also has a private practice as Management Development Performance Consultant. His key qualifications are: teaching Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management subjects and teaching Advanced topics in the consulting Process and Behavioral Sciences DBA seminars (coach DBA and PhD students). He has worked from 1990 until 2005 as a Professor Organizational Behavior at MSM. His PhD is from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He completed his dissertation in 1969.He is a member of European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and The American Psychological Association (APA). He organized and delivered academic seminars and professional workshops in a wide variety of international locations including: North America (Canada, Mexico & the USA); South America (Peru); Africa: (Namibia); Middle East: (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine); Europe: (in 15 countries); Asia: (China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand); and in Australia.

Dr. R.L. Flood
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Maastricht School of Management. He is an internationally recognized authority on applied systemic thinking in the areas of strategic management, organizational behavior and organizational improvement. This was marked in 1997 by the award of Doctor of Science (Econ., Hull University) for a sustained and authoritative contribution to the field of management. His previous academic achievements include Doctor of Philosophy (1985, City University) in Systems Science, and Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours, 1983, City University) in Systems and Management. Dr. Flood is also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control. He was appointed to a full professorship at the age of 32 (Hull University). Dr. Flood worked nine years full time, including in the film business, the health service, and an opinion poll agency; and thirteen years in the university sector (City University and Hull University). His continued commitment to applied systemic thinking is evidenced in a consultancy and training portfolio that includes organizations in Australia, the Arabian Gulf, South East Asia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. He has lectured by invitation in over 20 countries worldwide including Japan and the United States of America, and has featured on his travels in a number of radio and television programs. He has authored nine books including Beyond TQM (that was nominated for the 1993 MCA Best Management Book of the Year) and Rethinking The Fifth Discipline that is amongst Routledge’s best selling management titles. He is founding and current editor of the international journal Systemic Practice and Action Research.

Dr. R.V. Goedegebuure
Associate Professor of International Business and Marketing. He holds a PhD in International Business from the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University, the Netherlands). He has worked as a consultant in marketing research, and as an economist in national and international statistical agencies. He has specialized in the impact of internationalization on firm strategies and industrial policy. He has performed research projects for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and European and international institutions. In addition he has authored numerous courses in marketing and marketing research. He has been teaching and consulting in many countries all over the world, including China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Currently, he is a senior economist at the Expert Centre for Sustainable Business and Development Cooperation, focusing on competitiveness and economic development issues in Africa. He is a visiting professor in Marketing and International Business at the Institute of Management Technology in Dubai.

Prof. Dr. B.I.J.M. van der Heijden
Professor of Organizational Behavior at MSM and full professor of Strategic HRM at the Open University of the Netherlands. She is Director of Research and Doctoral Programmes at the Maastricht School of Management and Head of the Department Organizational Behavior. Moreover she is affiliated with the University of Twente, Department HRM. She holds a MA in Psychology from the Catholic University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and a PhD in Management Science from the University of Twente (the Netherlands). In 2000 she was a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland). Currently, she coordinates two European cross-cultural research projects on career success. Her main research areas are: career development, employability, and aging at work.

Dr. G.W.J. Heling
Professor of Organizational Behavior. Holds a MA in Psychology from the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and a PhD in Behavioral Science from the University of Nijmegen. Dr. Heling has extensive experience as a senior management consultant, conducting projects of management and organizational development for national government organizations as well as large and medium size private companies. Specific areas of his consulting expertise are: management development, team development, performance improvement, organizational culture, organizational revitalization, change management and cross-cultural management. He lectures a.o. Management and Leadership, Creating, Structuring and Managing Organizations, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behavior, The Consultancy Process, and Corporate Restructuring and Change Management. In his current research he focuses on behavioral and cultural aspects of organizational effectiveness. In addition Dr. Heling conducts guest lectures, has been speaker at several conferences concerning Organizational Behavior, HRM and related topics, and has co-authored numerous publications in various fields of interest.

Dr. W. Huang
Lecturer of Finance at MSM, Webster University St Louis, Boston Business School, Nanjing University China. He holds a MA, Economics (International Finance) from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and a MA International Relations (Asia Studies) from the International University of Japan and he holds a PhD, Development Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has 19 years of teaching experience in the field, adjunct professors for 5 universities both a practitioner and lecturer in Finance. He does consultancy service linked to Asia, including servicing Deloitte, FMO, MSM SMU project etc. He is an EU expert for EU projects to emerging markets.

E.L. Inanga, MSc
Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Business Finance. Studied Accountancy at the University of Nigeria where he was a Federal Government Scholar and Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (UK), where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. Was formerly Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences and later Head of the Department of Economics in the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Previously held a visiting academic appointment in the Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies in Jamaica, West Indies. He has published extensively in accounting, business finance and related disciplines in academic and professional journals and has over 70 publications to his credit, including books, contributed book chapters, monographs and research and consultancy reports. Served as a member of the Board of Directors of a book merchandising company, an oil company and an insurance company in Nigeria, and as a Consultant to the UNDP in New York (USA). His international biographical listings include Africa Who’s Who, Africa Journal Limited, London (UK), Who’s Who in the Commonwealth and International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge (UK), and International Directory of Business Management Scholars and Research, Harvard Business School Press (USA). Formerly Head of Accounting and Finance in MSM., he is a member of the European Accounting Association, and an Academic Fellow of the Association of International Accountants in the United Kingdom.

Dr. M.T. Jones
Professor of Strategy . His research interests center on globalization, international market entry and corporate social responsibility. He is currently working with corporate clients such as ADDCO, Eurapco, IHG, Kuoni, OMV, Philips and Sinopec. He holds a PhD in Strategy from the University of California and has been based at various universities in Australia and New Zealand since 1991. He has published numerous research- and practitioner-oriented articles across a wide variety of areas including strategy, international business and business education. He is also the co-author of two books on general management and linking conceptual models of strategy to practical performance measurement tools. Before embarking on an academic career, Marc was a management consultant with KPMG and a financial analyst with EDS. He has consulted to private and public sector organizations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia specializing in the areas of internationalization, strategic planning and auditing, organizational restructuring and ethical sourcing.



Dr. S.K. Jones
Dr Jones was appointed Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Maastricht School of Management in January 2007. She gained her PhD from University College London, having graduated with her Bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Over the last two years, she has taught on the MBA program of MSM in Maastricht, Kuwait, Cairo, Yemen, Shanghai, Rwanda, Suriname and now Peru. She has also taught the DBA module on Behavioral Science in Cairo. Next year she is already booked to teach in Ghana, Kazakhstan and Nanjing.
Dr Jones managed consulting and training businesses in the UK, Hong Kong, PRC, India, Australia and Dubai, from 1988 to 2001. She was previously based at Kuwait Maastricht Business School (2005-7), and taught at the University of Wollongong in Dubai and the American University in Dubai, from 2001-2005. She has also taught for the Universities of Exeter, Cranfield and Leicester of the UK.
Dr Jones is an active consultant and trainer in many aspects of leadership and management. She conducts consulting and training projects in the Netherlands, Malta, Switzerland, UK, the Middle East, Africa and other locations.
Dr Jones has authored 25 full-length internationally-published books on business and management, including on the subjects of leadership, culture, psychometric testing, recruitment, career development and expatriation. Her 2005 book, Nelson’s Way: leadership lessons from the great commander, reached the top ten best-selling business books in the UK. Dr Jones has recently completed substantial sections of the first three volumes in the MSM textbook series, How to Write Your MBA Thesis, Leadership, Change and Responsibility, and Managing Cultural Diversity.

Dr. H. Kim
Professor, College of Hospitality and Tourism, Director, Tourism Industry Research Institute Sejong University, Seoul, KOREA. He is a professor of Hospitality and Tourism Marketing, and was a Dean of both the College of Hospitality and Tourism, and the Graduate School of Tourism in Sejong University. He earned Ph.D. degree in Marketing from KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and was a Visiting Fulbright Research Fellow in the Department of Marketing, the University of Texas at Austin, from 1992 to 1993. He taught research methodology in the business school of AIT(Asian Institute of Technology) as a visiting professor. His Current Research interests include marketing, marketing research in hospitality and tourism, and technological issues in hospitality and tourism management. His research has been published in such international journals as International Journal of Research in Marketing, Technovation, Pacific Tourism Review, Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administraton Quarterly, and Annals of Tourism Research.

Dr. W. Kortam
Associate Professor of marketing research, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University . He holds an Ph.D. in Business Administration (Major: Marketing Research and Management Information Systems), The University of Nottingham, England, 1997
M.Sc. in Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University, 1991. Bachelor of Commerce (Major: Business Administration), Cairo University, Grade: Excellent with honour,1986. Member of Business Disciplines Board, The Egyptian National Academy of Scientific Research, 2005- to date. Educator and Academic Member of The British Academy of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing 1995-to date.
Outstanding paper award, Academy of Marketing Science for 2003, for the paper; “Understanding the New Bases for Global Market Segmentation". Involved since 1988 in teaching several undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a variety of areas including Management Information Systems, Marketing Research, Electronic ( Internet) Marketing, Business Research Methodology, Strategic Marketing, Principles of Marketing, Principles of Management and Sales Management in Egyptian, French, German, American and British universities.

Dr. M.A. Radwan
Is currently the Managing Director of Platinum Partners, a strategic business development consulting firm. He holds a Doctorate of Business Administration / International Management (DBA/IM). Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. 1996. A Master of Business Administration (MBA), Specialty Certificate in International Business. Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. August 27, 1990. A Bachelors Degree of Commerce, Major Accounting. Suez Canal University, Egypt May 1988. And a Diploma of Business English with Distinction. Business Training Institute, England. December 7, 1990. His consulting experience was gained from performing professional services for a variety of industries including, IT & Telecom, Construction, Health Care, FMCG, Educational and Development programs in the region. His wealth of experience (18 years) is gained through his corporate, academic, training and consulting activities performed in different regions including USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa. The practical experience of Mr. Radwan ads to the richness of his knowledge and expertise. He performed in different corporate positions including the Commercial Director of Orascom Telecom, a leading telecommunication company in the Middle East and Africa; Business Development Planning Manager for Vodafone Egypt; Senior Consultant for KPMG Management Consultants, among other roles and responsibilities.

Dr. E.F. McDonough
Dr. McDonough is Professor of International Innovation Management in the International Business Group, College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He holds a Ph.D. in the fields of organizational behavior and design, as well as an MBA with a concentration in organization development and design. For over 25 years, his research and consulting have focused on executing innovation strategies, managing global new product development, and managing global new product development teams. He held administrative positions in two start-up companies prior to joining Northeastern in 1979 and has consulted with numerous companies on organizing and managing their new product development and innovation efforts. Some of the companies that Dr. McDonough has worked with include: Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Eastman Kodak, Corning, Phillips, Black & Decker, ITT Hartford, NYNEX, EG&G, Litton Industries, Northern Trust, Bay State Gas, Quebecor Providence Printing, Basic American Foods, Modine Manufacturing Corporation, New Pig, Sabanci Holding, Arcelik, Eczacibasi, and Akbank. Professor McDonough has conducted executive training and given speeches in China, Mexico, Turkey, France, Germany, England, The Netherlands, and the US on a variety of topics including, creating innovative organizations, speeding up the product development process, leading high performance new product development, leading transformational change, creating high performance new product development teams, managing the global product development process, improving the R&D/Manufacturing interface, effectively controlling new product development projects, and others. He served as the Vice President of Research for the Product Development & Management Association for four years and was the President of the College of Technology and Engineering Management in The Institute of Management Sciences. In addition to presenting over 75 papers in the US and other countries, Professor McDonough has published extensively. His articles have appeared in, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, R&D Management Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Research*Technology Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Personnel, and Journal of Technology Management Research. He is a founding member of the Institute for Global Innovation Management (IGIM) at Northeastern University, and he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research.

Dr. A.J. Melcher
Dr. Melcher is a professor of Management at Southern Illinois University. His previous experience was as Professor of Administrative Sciences at Kent State University. He has a bachelors and MBA from UCLA and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago. He has written widely on leadership, micro and macro organization and strategic management issues. He has served as chair or co chair on 29 dissertations and served as a member on a large number of other dissertation committees. Teaching experience has been at the undergraduate, masters, executive MBA and doctoral level. International teaching experience includes Executive MBA in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Puerto Rico, doctoral seminars in Europe (Maastricht & Lisbon) & Malaysia. Business experience includes Southern California Gas Company in a staff capacity, consultant in small and large business organizations on issues of organizational design and strategic management and management training seminars at all levels of management. Professional memberships include Academy of Management, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Production Management Association and American Association of University Professors.

Dr. D. Nikolik
Professor of MIS/E-business and Department Chair. Holds MS in Control Systems from the University of Southern California (USC), USA and PhD in Biocybernetics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar at USC LA in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics Dr. Nikolik took part in PhD research projects in AI system’s modeling and implementation of computerized hearing aid implants at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles and House Ear Institute, Los Angeles. He has been activelly engaged in Artificial Neural Networks applied to BMI and Genetics research, a project at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Dr. Nikolik has more than 20 years of academic experience as Professor of Computer Science and Head of Computer Science Department at the University of Skopje (Macedonia). His main research interests are in VE, AI, ANN, Applied Information Technology, Computer Networks, MIS and development of Databases and Information Systems. He has published numerous articles.

Dr. J.H. Patterson
Member of Board of Doctoral Degree Studies. He holds a bachelors of Science.
Degree (with honors) from the University of Colorado, and a DBA from Indiana University. He is currently a Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana, USA. He has consulted for many Fortune companies primarily in the area of Statistical Applications and Project Management. He is widely published in several journals, for example in: Management Science, AACSB Bulletin, AIIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, etc.

Dr. F.Y. Phillips
Professor of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Research Methods. From 2004-06, Associate Dean for MBA, DBA and Research. Before joining MSM in 2004, he was Head of the Department of Management at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology. Earlier, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, and prior to that, a Vice President at MRCA Information Services. His responsibilities at MRCA included corporate and consulting project management, and the design of advanced methods and applications for consumer panels. Dr. Phillips' areas of expertise are market research, technology marketing and management, and management in the software industry. His contributions in operations research include "Phillips' Law" of longitu¬dinal sampling, and the first parallel computing experiments with Data Envelopment Analysis. He is co-recipient of two grants totalling US $5 million from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for the study of Japanese technology management practices, and many other federal, state and foundation grants, including $1 million from the National Science Foundation for developing advanced information systems for the U.S. Forest Service. He has won several professional association awards for outstanding research. Dr. Phillips has been a consultant to Intel, Texas Instruments, Tandem Computers, Frito-Lay Inc., and other corporations, and has consulted on technology based regional development for the governments of the Balearic Islands (Spain) and the city of Curitiba (Brazil). Dr. Phillips attended The University of Texas and Tokyo Institute of Technology, earning the PhD at Texas (1978) in mathematics and management science. He has held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Aston and Birmingham in England, the General Motors Research Laboratories, St. Edward's University, University of Hawaii, and SUNY Stony Brook. He is author or co-author of many publications in operations research and marketing, and is one of three Associate Editors of the Elsevier journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Dr. L.S. Tigchelaar
Business and HR Consultant (in addition part-time professor of HRM) in particular for knowledge creating and professional organisations. He holds a (MA) degree in psychology 1970. Main disciplines: Indus¬trial Psy¬chology, Social Psycho¬logy, Experimental Psy¬cho¬logy, Ergo¬no¬mics. Title of thesis: "Creativity and intelligence in re¬search and pro¬duct-dev't".
1974, Ph.D. "Potential assessment and career dev't"Free University of Amsterdam.
In the pharmaceutical and biochemical sector: Management of professionals, HR-aspects of the product-creation process; moreover: compensation and incentive schemes for sales, working-time arrangements in manufacturing. In high-tech companies: R&D-organisation, specific appraisal and coaching policies for professional specialists, HR aspects of the product creation process, professional and management development, redesign, quality and education of HRM.
-In broadcasting and newspaper business: Strategic HR-consultancy, compensation and benefits policies inventories and benchmarking supporting negotiations between employers and unions.
In employers federations: Several projects and working parties on flexible retirement, ageing and older workers, payment schedules, equal opportunity and diversity, legal- and social political developments. Guest lecturer and expert-consultant to: Academy of Management ( Groningen) in view of courses in HR-strategy and change management, Management Centre De Baak (Noordwijk) in view of HR-post- graduate training, Academy of Public Administration, and IBO (Institute for business administration, Zeist). Junior management course (Philips, 1974 ) Senior Management Course ( Philips, European Octagon, 1984 ), in which he presided a one year lasting project concerning “The Management of Systems Business”.

Dr. A.O. Thomas
Associate Professor of International Business and Marketing. Prior to a 17-year academic career at five universities in Netherlands, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Singapore as well as visiting stints elsewhere, he worked for 13 years in business, NGOs and government around the Asia-Pacific region. As an internationalist, Dr Thomas has worked/lived in 5 countries and researched/taught in about 20 and visited some 60 countries across five continents, even prior to joining MSM. He holds a PhD from Victoria University, Melbourne and an MBA from National University of Singapore, among other qualifications. The research and consulting interests of Dr Thomas encompass globalization strategies and processes, the political economy of the media/advertising industries, cross-cultural dimensions of marketing and management, and socio-ethical issues in developing/transitional economies. His publications include 2 books, 8 chapters, 17 refereed articles and over 30 conference/seminar papers

Dr. Q. Truong
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. Master of Public Administration (MPA) from National Institute of Administration (Saigon, 1972) and Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, 1976); doctorandus in Political Science from Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, 1980); PhD in Social Sciences (Development Policy) from Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, 1987).
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Truong worked for IBM-Netherlands and Europe for 15 years (1978-1993) in several positions. Between 1995-2006, he was an Associate Professor cum Coordinator of the E(xecutive) MBA Program in Human Resource Management at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand). He is also a visiting professor at Thammasat University, the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) in Bangkok, Payap University in Chiangmai, Thailand; Ecole Nationale d’Aministration et de Gestion (ENAG) in Vientiane, Laos; Europa-Institut, University of Saarland in Saarbrucken; Ilmenau Technical University in Thuringen, Germany; China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, China; and School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali, Rwanda.
Dr. Truong has taught courses in Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, International Business, Organizational Change, Global Branding and Advertising, and Cross Cultural Management.
He regularly serves as a consultant for many local and foreign companies in Vietnam, Thailand, China and The Netherlands in organizational effectiveness, management development, and management of change.
He has authored numerous articles in internationally refereed journals and book chapters, edited 3 books on social and economic aspects of the development process in Indochina, and is guest editor of several journals in the field of human resource management and organizational behavior.
He has worked in Vietnam, The Netherlands, France, the Middle East, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Rwanda.

Prof. Dr. R.S.J. Tuninga
Director Dean and Professor International Business and Marketing of the Maastricht School of Management. The Maastricht School of Management is the most international management school in Europe with MBA programs in 24 countries. Before coming to Maastricht he was the Associate Dean and Director MBA Programs and Professor of Marketing and International Business at Universiteit Nyenrode (The Netherlands). He was responsible for the full-time MBA program, the Rochester-Nyenrode Executive MBA program, and the part-time MBA program in cooperation with Kellogg School of Management (U.S.A.) and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). Prof. Tuninga has been the Academic Dean at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Open University in the Netherlands. His Ph.D. is from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He completed his dissertation in Comparative Marketing in 1987. He also holds an MA in Economics, an MBA in International Business and an MSc in Marketing. From 1987 until 1993 he was an Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA), from 1993 until 1999 he was Professor of Marketing and Director of the Euro*MBA at the Open University of the Netherlands. His research publications have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Macromarketing, Managerial and Decision Economics, the Irish Marketing Review, the Scandinavian International Business Review, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management, Bedrijfskunde and Proceedings of International Conferences. He has lectured extensively both in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In 1991 and 1992 he was a visiting professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Copenhagen Business School, and Odense University. Prof. Tuninga is involved in many international projects funded by the Dutch Government, World bank, European Union and other international organizations. He has been a consultant for companies such as for example Melitta North America and GE and a partner of the Holland Consulting Group.

Dr. K.S.P. Rwegasira
Professor of Financial Management and Accounting at Maastricht School of Management (MSM). MSM Associate Dean (1996-2003) responsible for Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Degree studies Division including the DBA European-American as well as Global outreach DBA programs. Member MSM Management Team (1990-2006) . He joined MSM in 1987 and until 1994 he was the head of MBA Degree Studies Division and head of the Accounting & Finance Professional Cell at MSM. For the period 1994-97 he was Associate Dean for PhD/ DBA Degree Studies and Research. He pioneered and led the initial design, introduction and establishment of several key degree programs at MSM including the DBA program in 1996 and the MBA (accounting and finance) in 1992. He holds MBA, M.Phil., and PhD in finance from Columbia University Graduate Business School in New York city (USA). He has practical experience in financial planning in industry and as a financial analyst in the banking sector. He has taught in several countries at various universities and institutions of higher learning including the City University of New York (USA) and Slough College (UK) as well as University of Dar es Salaam, ESAMI (Arusha) and the IFM (Dar) of which he was the deputy and interim Director (CEO). He served as a board member of more than ten and Board Chairman of four national parastatal and private enterprises in Tanzania. He has consulted for various international institutions including the World Bank, UN-DTCD (New York) and ILO (Geneva) as well as national governments, including the Dutch, Norwegian, Pakistan and Tanzanian governments.
His field work experience has been in various regions of the world including Europe, China, Brazil, Peru as well as countries in the Middle-East, Eastern and Southern Africa and South- East Asia. He has published five books and many articles in the area of finance and management.
His research interests are in the broad areas of finance as well as control and governance systems. He teaches managerial finance, management control systems, portfolio management and international business finance as well as research methods. He is enlisted and/or profiled in, among others, Who is Who in European Executive Education (IMEC Publishing, NL), Harvard International Directory of Business Management Scholars and Research (HBS Publishing USA) and the Directory of Development Researchers in NL (Nuffic/CIRAN, The Hague).


Dr. B. Schneider
Lecturer of Finance and Accounting and Strategic Management. Holds a BA in History from Occidental College (USA), a non-degree diploma in Accounting from California State University, Los Angeles (USA), an MBA in Management from the University of Southern California (USA), and a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, The Drucker-Ito School of Management (USA). Has worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen & Co.; as a sole practitioner accountant; and as Vice President of Finance and Administration and Treasurer of National Educational Media, Inc. Professor of Accounting (Emeritus), California State University, Los Angeles (USA).

Dr. H. Sander
Professor of Economics at the Maastricht School of Management. He Holds a master-level degree in Economics from the University of Essen (Germany), and a doctorate (Dr. rer. oec.) in Economics from the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). He has been a visiting research fellow at the International Monetary Fund, Banco de México, New York University, University of Melbourne and University of Western Sydney and is also extramural research fellow at the METEOR research school of the University of Maastricht. Dr. Sander has published numerous articles and has co-authored several books. His research interests are in international trade, international finance and European financial integration. Lectures Economics and International Economics.

Dr. E. Serra
Doctor “Cum-Laude” in Economic Sciences by the University of Barcelona, in 1986. Degree in Economic Sciences, 1973, Faculty of the Central University of Barcelona. Social Degree by the University School as Tarragona in 1988. DG-IESE: UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA (Program of Main Directorate) in 1989 Graduated in Business Administration by ESADE, 1981. Diploma by the INSEAD (Institut Europeen d'Administration DES Affairs), of Fontenebleau (France), in 1982. Graduated by EUROFORUM in Enterprise Strategy, 1982. Cooperative manager, by the Center of Cooperative Education of Barcelona, in 1974. Diploma of Fiscal Adviser of the Iltre. School of Economists of Catalonia, in 1981.
President of Latin Bridge Business, S.A. Company dedicated to the promotion of businesses between Europe and the different Latin American countries. Professor of ESADE (University Ramon Llull), Program Corporate Level Strategy, Enterpise Politics. From course 2002-2003 to the date. Professor of the International Studies Center of the University of Barcelona, Masters in Globalizatión, International Trade and Economy. From course 2002-2003 to the date. Invited Professor at the University Adolfo Ibañez Chile for the Masters in Businness Administration since 2005/2006.

Dr. A. Sybrandy
Professor of International Business and Marketing. He holds an MBA (1982), MA in Economics (1986), MS in Marketing Research (1986) and a PhD in Business Administration from the Temple University in Philadelphia USA. He also is a freelance consultant and teaches part-time at Neumann College in Aston, USA. Professor Sybrandy has taught graduate distance education courses in Marketing, International Business and Strategy via the Internet utilizing a Lotus Domino/Notes Infrastructure. Courses taught were for both the Open University in the Netherlands and the Euro*MBA consortium.

Dr. A. de Waal
Associate Professor Strategic Management. His teaching assignment is the course Strategic Performance Management. Next to this, he is an independent researcher, management consultant and author. André is also the director of the Center for Organizational Performance, an organization which conducts research into high performance organizations. André has been a consultant and a partner with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and the Holland Consulting Group for 17 years (1986 – 2001). He has been selected by Managementboek.nl as one of the Hollandse Meesters in Management (Dutch Masters in Management), ten people who have influenced management thinking in the Netherlands the most in the past decade. André has published over a hundred sixty articles and twenty-two books.

Dr. K. Wahba
Assistant Professor at Cairo University, Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Wahba is also the executive manager and the academic advisor at the Regional IT Institute (RITI) in Cairo. He got his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Engineering from the department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering at Cairo University in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Dr. Wahba later studied at Aachen University of Technology in Germany where he received his PhD in 1996. His fields of interest are; System/Business Dynamics, System Thinking, Research Methods and Decision Making Tools, Web-Based Applications, Information Systems, Distance Education, e-learning, Simulation and Modeling, Control of Dynamic Systems, Knowledge Management. He has supervised more than 350 theses in Business Administration, Computer Science and Business Information Technology, as well as more than 30 senior projects in Systems and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Wahba is an active member the Systems Dynamic Society since June 2001 where he also acts as president of its Egypt Chapter. He has been elected as a member of the Policy Council for the System Dynamics Society in the period of 2007-2009. He has participated in various conferences and workshops in fields of system dynamics, software engineering, biomedical engineering, information technology and knowledge management, entrepreneurship, and distance education among others. He has over 55 research publications published as chapters in international books in knowledge management area, also published in proceedings of international conferences held in Europe, USA and Canada.
Dr. Wahba has taught several subjects on undergraduate, postgraduate and Doctorate level, including system thinking/dynamics, Research Methodologies, Business Statistics, Information Technology Strategy, and Dynamic Control Systems. Moreover Dr. Wahba has been as adjunct professor at University of Louisville, USA and at Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands. Also Dr. Wahba is the Link Tutor for the Global Campus Program with Middlesex University, London, UK. Dr. Wahba has instructed in Kuwait, Peru and in Malawi in the fields of Business Statistics, Quantitative Research Methods and Operations Management.

Dr. J.A. Walburg
President and CEO of the Trimbos-Instituut in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Trimbos-instituut is the Netherlands knowledge center for alcohol and drugs addiction and mental health. Before his position at the Trimbos-instituut he was president and CEO of the Jellinek-clinics in Amsterdam. During the period 1996-2005 he was part time professor "Quality in health care" at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam and at the Technical University Eindhoven. In the 90's he was managing director of the Amsterdam Institute for Addicion Research. He was also co-founder of this institute.
Dr. Walburg has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology (Leiden University, the Netherlands). He also holds a MBA degree of the Management Developments Institute for Executives at Nijenrode, the Netherlands, and followed the Executive Programme at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. In 1993 he completed a marketing course for businesses in the service sector at Haas University, Berkely, USA and he followed a training for Award Assessors in preparation for the European Quality Award.
Dr. Walburg has a number of international activities, e.g. cooperation with WHO Geneva for "collaboration center", founder and chairman of the "European Association of Addiction Research Institutes", a collaborative venture between 12 top European institutes in the field of addiction research and advisor for the foundation and implementation of preventive and treatment facilities in the Netherlands Antilles.
A selection of his current board and committee memberships: member of the board of "Altrecht", member of the board of the NESDA research consortium, supervisor for the Maastricht School of Management.

Dr. B. de Wit
Professor of Strategic Management. Holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands), a MBA from the Interuniversity Institute of Management in Delft (the Netherlands), and a Ph.D. in General Management from the Erasmus University (the Netherlands). Has 10 years of teaching and research experience at the Rotterdam School of Management and has published several books and numerous articles. He has co-authored (with Ron Meyer) the leading strategy text “Strategy Process, Content, Context: An International Perspective” (first edition June 1994, second revised edition March 1998), which is currently being used in over twenty countries. He is a strategy consultant for many large companies in the Netherlands, Germany and France. Lectures Strategy, Strategic Design and Strategic Behavior.

Dr. M.M. Youssef
Dean of Faculty of Commerce Cairo University. Extensive academic, consulting and practical experience (over 25 years) in the fields of investment and projects evaluation, financial analysis and insurance institutions. Established a wide knowledge of the various financial valuation techniques, restructuring and a wide ranging experience in the splitting and valuation of assets portfolio of insurance & reinsurance companies through his practical involvement in the financial valuation and determination of fair market value for a large number of public and private enterprises.
Dr. Youssef has been appointed during the period of 1999- 2000 as the Board member of Misr Insurance Company and since year 2000 until now as the board member of Egyptian Insurance Supervisory Authority. Dr. Youssef has numerous published articles and researches related to stock market and valuation of shares. Provided consultancy services on feasibility studies, financial analysis and structuring for a wide spectrum of projects (over 40) in Egypt and the Middle East.
He was working during 2002/2004 as the Director of Research and Commercial Studies Center, he has been supervised and delivered a number of reports and seminars in different fields of interest, of which; Insurance Companies and Internet Banks, The competitive advantages of Insurance Companies, the role of Insurance Companies Banking, and Businessmen in improving the actions of Real Estate Finance Law, Insurance Market Contact & Corporate Governance Rules. He has more than 15 publication and 60 articles (Arabic and English) in the same domains. He was working during 2004-2005 as the chairman of the Egyptian Insurance Supervisory Authority. Dr. Youssef is currently the Dean of Faculty of Commerce Cairo University.