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Global Strategic Management Inc. (GSMI) was established in Michigan, USA, in 2005 to provide services to the world at large. GSMI is a consortium of international experts of academicians, government officials, and business leaders living in countries all around the world.  GSMI helps countries/governments, universities/academics, and businesses/industries around the world apply best practices in governance, business, information technology, ..., to address global issues, achieve and sustain competitive advantage and improve quality of life/economic development.
 
 
VISION
To be internationally recognized as the world’s best transformational leadership organization of strategic global management platform for a better world/improving quality of life/improving economic development.

 
MISSION
To provide the first-class strategic global management platform for a better world through transformational leadership insight, planning, value creation, collaboration, and leveraging of global management resources.
 
BRAND STRATEGY:
At GSMI, we believe in harnessing the collective power of inspired people, teamwork, intellect, and global strategic resources. This philosophy has guided the development and positioning of our unique brand model which stresses the need for:
Leveraging global management resources through transformational leadership insight, and collaboration.
 
VALUES
Process Oriented:
Optimize processes, go high tech, maximize profit, go international, ....
Relationship: We build long-term relationship , confidence and trust with our clients so as to retain them.
Partnership: We build network of international partnerships to facilitate our global strategic management activities.
Collaboration: We believe in collaboration to get a job done.
Information and Communication Technology: We believe in applying the state-of-the art technology for facilitating our activities.
Respect : We value every idea regardless of the source; we believe in respect.
Innovation: We value creative thinkers.
Leadership: We believe in apply transformational leadership insight to connect with governments, businesses and individuals to make the world a better place.
Opportunity: Help each client see bigger picture of business opportunities.
Diversity: We embrace all cultures to achieve our vision.
Versatility: We welcome multi-taskers.
Knowledge: We acknowledge knowledge as a key management trigger.
Accountability: We respect accountability.
Can Do Attitude: We respect people with “Can do attitude”
 

OUR CORE PEOPLE AND SOME GSMI FELLOWS
 
Matthew H. S. Kuofie
Prof Kuofie is  1) a world renowned distinguished university executive, 2) a global business executive, and 3) a politician. He holds a Ph D in Systems Engineering from Oakland University, Michigan; an MBA in Business Administration from Northern Illinois University, Illinois;  and an MS in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, Virginia, all from USA. He also holds a BS in Statistics and Mathematics from the University of Ghana. 
 
 

He is a member of  the Madonna University  Council for International Education, USA. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Garden City University College, Ghana. He also serves as the president/executive director of the Global Strategic Institute, USA,  the online educational branch of GSMIHe has been targeted to serve as the president/vice chancellor of a proposed Global University.  A number of universities and businesses all over the world have contacted us to be either partners and or investors to the Global University. Please let us know if you also are interested in affiliating with our Global University and or GSMI.

 

He  has negotiated and signed numerous partnership agreements (memorandum of understandings) with governments, universities and businesses around the world.

 

During 2009, he presented in many countries including Brazil, China, Malaysia, Thailand, UAE, UK and US "A Strategic Model for Addressing the Global Economic Crises.”   He teaches international business management, international marketing and information technology. He has expertise in international finance. Prof  Kuofie has taught, given seminars, and/or organized conferences at various hotels/universities, including the University of Michigan, USA; Central Michigan University, USA; Chou University, Japan; Fudan University, China; Management Development Institute, India; Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany; University of Technology in Sydney, Australia; University of Ghana, Ghana; Bangkok University, Thailand; Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Harbin Institute Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China; University of Malaya, Malaysia; Mara Sarakham University, Thailand; and Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.   He has graduated a number of doctoral students in many universities. Prof. Kuofie has published numerous journal and conference papers.  He has served as chairperson at a number of conferences. He is also the editor-in-chief of the 1) International Journal of Global Business, 2) Journal of Marketing and Management, and 3) Journal of Information Technology and Economic Development.
 
 
Dr. Kuofie was the distinguished keynote speaker at the:
1) World Summit on Financial Crisis and International Business, Sao Paulo, December 14-16, 2009
2) World Summit on Economic-Financial Crisis and International Business, Washington DC, USA, September 14-16, 2009
3) World Summit Conference on Global Economic Development -- Crisis, London, United Kingdom, July 16-18, 2009
4) Global Business--Chennai (Madras), India, June 23-25, 2010
5) International Conference on Educational Reforem, Da Nang, Vietnam, June 29-30, 2010

 

 
 He was an outstanding speaker at the United Nations World Summit, November 16-18, 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia
 
Prof. Dr. Kuofie ran for the Beverly Hills, Michigan, United States, City (Village) Council during the November 4, 2008 United States General Election.
He is running for United States House of Representative in Congress (in the Michigan 9th Congressional District) in the November 2, 2010 General Election.
Dr. Kuofie made the formal announcement of his candidacy for US Congress:
1) on Bloomfield Community TV 15, Bloomfield, Michigan on February 18, 2010
2) Replayed on Birmingham, Michigan, Area Public Access TV Channel 18 the week of Feb 22, 2010
3) Submitted required petition signatures to the Election Commission to be placed on the November 2, 2010 US General Election on June 3, 2010 
 
Dr. Kuofie deals with government officials in countries around the world.  
He is the CEO of Global Strategic Management Inc., USA. Dr. Kuofie worked for companies, including Systems Solutions International, USA and Electronics Data Systems/General Motors, USA. He held various positions, including project manager, president and chief executive officer. 
 

On September 14, 2009, at the World Summit on Financial Economic and International Business held in Washington DC, USA, Madonna University of Michigan. USA, presented Dr. Kuofie with  Golden Globe Award –the highest award given by Madonna University to an individual. 

   

Due to Professor Kuofie’s outstanding accomplishments all around the world in academia, government/politics, global business and economic development, he was honored with a Wole Soyinka Education Award in Detroit, United States of America on August 1, 2009. The renowned Wole Soyinka won a Noble Prize in 1986.

 

On June 3, 2009, the City Council of Detroit, USA, honored Dr. Kuofie with THE SPIRIT OF DETROIT AWARD for his  exceptional achievement, outstanding leadership and his dedication for improving quality of life. 

 


 

 

Matthew Kuofie with Key Leaders from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam  at an International Event in Vietnam June 29, 2010.

 Some of the key leaders of the Global University.

 
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Dr. Christian C. Wagner

Dr. Christian C. Wagner is the current chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA; he has been with the University as a professor for over 20 years. Dr. Wagner has a BS and MS in Computer Science, and a PhD in Educational Psychology.  Dr. Wagner has consulted for a large set of industrial customers including DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Eaton Automotive, GM/EDS, Pulte Homes, UTA Automotive among many others. He has published many papers in conference proceedings and journals. He has written three books. Dr. Wagner has graduated about 12 PhDs at Oakland University and has strong permanent working relationships with them all. Dr. Wagner was Prof. Matthew Kuofie’s doctoral committee chair.  

 

 Dr. Cathy Jabara, Senior Economist, U.S. International Trade Commission.

Dr. Jabara is currently a Senior Economist with the U.S. International Trade Commission where she specializes in research related to international trade and global business.  Her recent research has focused on international trade and exchange rates, and U.S. trade with Sub-Saharan Africa.  Dr. Jabara received her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University, and her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia.  She has been previously employed with the government as an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Treasury Department.  She has also taught economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, and worked as a Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, where she focused on the impact of macroeconomic policies on low-income people in Africa.

 Dr. Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, M.Sc., Ph.D., is working as a statistician for Capital Markets Board of Turkey. His current research interests include design and development of fraud detection, risk management, early warning, surveillance, conducting analysis on capital markets, finance and health.
He is member of the IASC and IASS sections of ISI, Turkish Statistical Association, Turkish Informatics Society and was former vice head of Turkish Statisticians Association.  He has been taking part in a lot of international and national projects (UN, IBRD, EU, etc.). He is the author of chapter titled “Early Warning System for SMEs as a Financial Risk Detector”
  Dr Kathy Tannous, Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, BA (Hons, Econ.), GradDip AppInv, GradDip FinPlan, M AppFinInv, PhD (Econ fin). Dr. Tannous has been working as an applied and public policy economist for past 19 years. She started her career as a macroeconomist conducting economic evaluation of major infrastructure projects and modelling impact of international trade policies in Canada. Dr. Tannous has undertaken economic impact studies on infrastructure projects in Australia and Canada; she undertook economic evaluation of education and labour market projects in South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. She has worked as an economist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, as an asset consultant with IPAC Securities, and as a consultant in the Economics Division at Coopers and Lybrand. She has undertaken projects in the Asia Pacific region including Laos, China, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa and Fiji. She had undertaken a national project on Australian residential aged care facilities to benchmark their occupational health and safety (OHS) programs against similar organisations in Australia and internationally. Currently she is a research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
 

Prosper M. Bernard, PhD,  MBA, BSc., BA, Summa Cum Laude, C.M.C.

Dr. Prosper M. Bernard is an internationally respected lecturer and consultant withextensive experience in International Business Education especially in Latin America and in China. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University Consortium of the Americas and member of  the Board of a few private and public organizations.. He is a Professor of Business at the University of Québec at Montreal. He served as Vice-rector and member of the Board of the same university. He is a Canadian and an American citizen.

  Dr. Willian Wardrope holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, an M.A. from Oklahoma State University, and a B.A. from Central State University.  He is currently the director and professor of International Business Programs.
Spanning 23 years, his teaching career has included Texas State University, City University of New York, Stephen F. Austin State University, and the University of Central Oklahoma. He has taught over 20 courses in communication, culture, and global business. The recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, Dr. Wardrope has co-authored Communicating Globally: Intercultural Communication and International Business, has published research in the Journal of Business Communication, Business Communication Quarterly, Communication Education, and The Journal of Global Education for Business, has made over 100 presentations at academic conferences, taught international short courses at universities in Chile and Ecuador, and currently has developed a new undergraduate program in international business at the University of Central Oklahoma.
 

Dr. Nermin Ozgulbas, M.Sc., Ph.D. is associate professor of finance at Baskent University in Turkey. She taught financial management, financial analysis and cost accounting in Baskent University, distance education program of Anadolu University and Turkish Ministry of Health. Her research and publication activities include finance, cost accounting, risk management, early warning systems, and data mining in especially SMEs, capital markets, health care organizations, and social security. She has been participating in a lot of international and national projects and conferences as an organizer, reviewer and advisor. Her latest researches are about early warning systems for financial crisis. She is the author of chapter titled “Early Warning System for SMEs as a Financial Risk Detector” in “Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies”, and the editor of “Surveillance Technologies and Early Warning Systems: Data Mining Applications for Risk Detection”.

 

 

Dr. Helal Alaskar  --Distinguished GSMI Fellow –Recognized  June 10, 2010

Dr. Helal Alaskar is the Dean of Riyadh College of Technology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is associate professor in practical art and vocational technical education with concentration in business education. Dr Helal is the author of many books and the translator of  Calfry Calhon's Book "Managing The Learning Process.”  Dr. Helal Alaskar got all of his education: BS, Masters and PhD in USA. He is a journalist and consultant with different governmental and nongovernmental establishments. Dr. Alaskar is the president of the Consultant Committee in Saudi Administrative Association at King Saud University 

 

Mr. Joseph Bren

 

Mr. Joseph Bren USA, is the Assistant Director of International & Cultural Affairs for the City of Indianapolis, USA; Mr. Baker develops, manages, and administers Indianapolis’ international development & outreach, cultural, and Latino Affairs initiatives. Mr. Baker was the policy director for the Indiana State Department of Health’s Office of Minority Health.  He holds a BA from Purdue and an MS from Illinois State University.

 

 Lancy Huxiaoniu of Shenzhen, Business English graduate from GuiLin College of Aerospace Technology, China
She translated papers in Chinese to English for the Annual Global Business, Information Technology and Management for Economic Development Conference  (BITMED2009). October 22-24, 2009 held at the
Yihai Business Hotel and Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) –
Beijing, China

 

 José G. Vargas-Hernández, M.B.A., Ph.D.

He is a  member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. Research professor at University Center fo Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara. Mexico, Visiting Scholar IURD- UCBerkeley, USA,. Visiting research professor at School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Canadá. He holds Ph. D. In Public Administration (Columbia States University), Ph.D. in Economics (Keele University, England). Studies in Organisational Behaviour (Lancaster University). Master of Business Administration in Industrial Management (Pacific States University). Marketing Certificate (The British Institute of Marketing). Diploma in Philosophy (Universidad Panamericana). Bachelor in Commercial Relations, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. More than 100 scientific papers and three books Publisher.

 

    Dr. Klodiana Gorica

 

Dr. Klodina Gorica holds a PhD in Marketing and Tourism. She is currently principal lecturer in marketing and tourism, University of Tirana, Albania. She has published many papers in journals and conference proceedings. She has also published books. She is a fellow of Global Strategic Management Incorporated, Michigan, USA.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Michel Plaisent

 

Michel Plaisent is a full professor in the Business School of University of Québec in Montréal, Canada, and former director of the MIS program. His Ph.D. in Information System is from the University of Québec in Montréal in 1987; as is his M.Sc. in Project Management in 1980, his B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from University of Montréal in 1971, and his B.A. from Sainte-Marie Collège in 1968. He has held positions with governments and enterprises as system programmer, analyst and CIO from 1971 to 1987, before he joined the faculty of University of Québec in Montréal. He still works as consultant for many small business and non-profit organizations. His doctorial thesis (1987) was on the use of e-mail as a management tool. Dr. Plaisent's research focus is on the concept of cognitive ergonomics, learning problems and personal productivity tools for managers. He has published several books and articles 

Dr. Christina Koutra

 

Dr. Christina Koutra is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral research fellow awardee at the School of Tourism Policy Studies, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. Her research addresses the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility and its application in governmental and intergovernmental institutions; capacity building; community participation; and participatory approaches in developing countries. She is currently researching in Ghana, and Kenya. She holds a PhD in Tourism Policy Studies from University of Brighton’, UK, , an  MSc (Hon) in Tourism Management and  a BSc (Hons) in Russian and European both from University of Surrey’, UK

 

 

 

 

Dr. Aysar Philip Sussan

 

Dr. Aysar Philip Sussan holds a DBA in International Business from Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA, an MS in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, N.Y and a BS in Engineering Technology from Gannon University PA, USA. Dr. Sussan is currently the  Department Head of the International Business at Bethune - Cookman University. Florida, USA.

He teaches/ has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Stetson University in Florida and at New York Institute of Technology in the area of International Business, Strategic Management, and Quantitative Methods. He provided management training seminars for AT&T, Bell South, American Express, Westinghouse Nuclear Facilities, Dow Chemical, Halifax Trade Council, and many others. He taught management concepts in a variety of nations such as, The Middle - East, France, Poland, Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean Islands. Dr. Sussan held a variety of administrative positions such as, Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the MBA program. His research activities and publications are in the area of Global Strategic Management and Technology which involved over fifty publications in an academic research journals.

 

 

 

 

Pedro Soto-Acosta is a Professor of Management at the University of Murcia (Spain). He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems (MISs) and a Master's degree in Technology Management from the University of Murcia. He received his BA in Accounting and Finance in Europe from the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He attended Postgraduate Courses at Harvard University (USA) and participated in the Leonardo da Vinci Programme in Bradford (UK). Pedro has published in Prestigious International Journals. His work has won Research Awards. He was also recipient of the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in Business.

 

 

 MUSHTAQ AHMAD earned his M.A.& Ph.Din  Economics; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. UN-ADI Fellow. Was a Consultant to UN, Planning Commission & DFID.
Formulation of fiscal, monetary, foreign trade, privatization, macro-economic policies & sectoral
strategies (agriculture, industries, energy, social sectors) and poverty alleviation policies and their
periodic review + formulation of national development plans and strategies & their review
+ preparation of annual report on economy(Economic Survey)+ Government budget formulation+
Preparation of policies and budgets of corporate bodies + Preparation of National Accounts, Balance of Payments and Central bank’s credit plans+ Monthly monitoring of macro-economic indicators +Forecasts of macro-economic variables +Food security management+ Briefing of the foreign envoys on Pakistan’ s policies+ Interaction with foreign investors and business groups interested in doing business/ making investment in Pakistan+ Participation in the meetings of UNCTAD, Common Fund For Commodities, UN-ESCAP in developing country and regional strategies for development and financing+Negotiations with Int’l agencies like IMF, World Bank, Development Bank etc in seeking financial assistance+ Participated in bilateral negotiations with
donor countries+ Made contribution in Uruguay Round of GATT+ Writing for print media + Studies on GATT and WTO for Government of Pakistan, World Bank, UK Department for Int’l
Development, FAO, etc. 

 

Yin-Che Weng is a PhD student in the Department of Finance at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His current research interests are fund manager and financial analysts’ behavior. He received his BS degree in Economics in 2003 at Tunghai University, Taiwan; and his MS degree in Finance in 2005 at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, he served in the army from 2005 to 2007 as lieutenant. 

Dr. Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad

 

Dr. Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad is currently a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kelantan, Malaysia. Prior to joining UiTM in March 2003, she had 9 years experience with the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia(IRB) and 2 years experience as an Investment analyst at KLSE.

She graduated with a Bachelor in Business Administration (Finance) from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA; Masters in Business Administration from Universiti Utara Malaysia; and Doctor of Business Administration from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Professionally, she is an MIT (Malaysian Institute of Taxation), IBBM (Banks Institute of Malaysia) and CFP (Certified Financial Planner) trade member.

Throughout her career with UiTM, she has taught courses in Taxation, Corporate Finance, Investment, Option and Futures, Financial Analysis, Personal Finance, Management courses, Banking legal and ethics, International Business and etc. at Diploma, Undergraduate and Masters levels. Her research interests are in the area of Finance, Decision- making and Strategic Management.

Nik Maheran also does consultancy and training work. She has conduct training and consultation in the area of financial planning, investment planning and tax planning and Internal Control system and Human resource management for several companies. Furthermore, as an Image Consultant, she has conducted more than 50 seminars and workshops on image building and enhancement and customer service for corporations, government bodies, hospitals and women organizations.

 

 

Dr. Jui-kuei Chen

 

Dr. Jui-kuei Chen earned his doctorate degree (DBA) from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is currently a director and an associate professor of the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been teaching for over 25 years. He has been the CEO of Educational Institute of Linjiou Mountain Budhist Organization for the past twenty years. He also serves as a consultant, trainer, and an instructor in both Taiwan and China. He serves as an editor of many journals, including of BQuest-a University journal of applied topics in business and economics; a senior advisory director of Franklin Publishing Company; a faculty advisor of the Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal. His research interests include strategic management, vision management, cross-cultural management, future studies theory and methodology.  His papers have been  published in journals including“Journal of Global Business Issues”, “The Business Renaissance Quarterly”, “Journal of American Academy Business, Cambridge”, “The Journal of Business and management”, “Business Journal for Entrepreneurs”, “The Business Review, Cambridge.”

 

Dr. Suresh Subramoniam

 

Dr. Suresh Subramoniam lectures at the College of Business Administration, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  He holds a Ph.D. in Management Studies from University of Kerala, rivandrum, India; an M.S. in Industrial Engineering  from Louisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, LA, USA;  and a B.Tech in Mechanical  Engineering from University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India. His areas of interest include operations management, management information systems, enterprise resource planning, e-business, finance management, business process re-engineering, and information technology. He has numerous publications. He was a research engineer at Indian Space Research Organization, Government of India from 1990 -1999.

 

Dr. Giovanni Schiuma

 

Professor Dr. Giovanni Schiuma received his Degree in Engineering from University of Basilicata, Italy, and Ph.D. in Business Management from University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy. He is Scientific Director of the Center for Value Management at the Università della Basilicata in Italy, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK. He is also Research Director of the Institute of Knowledge Asset Management in Italy. Giovanni’s research, teaching, and consulting focus on linking knowledge assets and organization behavior to performance management and organization value creation. Giovanni is Chief-Editor of the internationally recognized Measuring Business Excellence. His primary research interests focus around the following areas: knowledge asset & intellectual capital management, performance management systems, innovation and change management, organizational behavior, organizational learning, industrial district and local development.

 

Dr. Subhas C. Misra

 

Dr. Subhas C. Misra is currently a Scientist at Harvard University, Boston, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and M.S. and M.Tech. degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), at Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, and the public and private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles. His current research interests include the areas of software management, software quality management, and information systems security, which are multidisciplinary, combining the fields of software engineering, information systems, organizational behavior, and technology and operations management.  Dr. Misra has authored over 50 scholarly research papers and published (yet to appear) 4 books. He has won Best Research Paper Award in an international conference held in the United States. He was also the recipient of more than 15 academic awards and fellowships such as the Achievement Award at the 2007 World Congress held in Las Vegas in the United States for “contribution and dedication” to his field, and the Canadian Government’s NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship.  Dr. Misra is the Managing Editor/Associate Editor of more than ten international journals.   

 

 

Dr. Cenk A. Yuksel

Dr. Cenk A. Yuksel is Assistant Professor at Istanbul University, Turkey, where he earned his PhD in Marketing. His major teaching and research interest focus on Marketing, including Pharmaceutical Marketing, Green Marketing, Branding, International Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fair Trade and Socially Responsible Consumption Behavior.

 

Dr. K. P Saraswathy

Dr K P Saraswathy Amma is a professor in Business Management department , European University of Lefke, TRNC, Cyprus. She has 31 years of experience in teaching at graduate and masters level.  She worked as Principal in N S S College Ottapalam, Kerala, India. Under her leadership as Principal, the college got accredited by National Board of Accreditation, University Grants Commission, İndia, based on the overall performance. As Professor and Dean of Management Studies at Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Kerala, India, she was respınsible for co-ordinating MBA programme and many conferences. 

She was awarded a research project by  University Grants Commission, India, in the year 2005 for conducting research in Microfinance. She has co-authored a book on “International Hand book of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship

  

Dr. K S M Panicker

 Dr. K S M Panicker has over 35 years of experience in academic administration and research, of which 15 years as Principal in 3 engineering colleges in India.  Dr. Panicker received Ph D degree from Indian Institute of Technology(I I T), NewDelhi, India. He has published many papers in international / national journals and conferences. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers(India) and a member of IEEE (USA). He served as chairman of Institution of  Engineers (India) and Indian Society for Technical Education, Palakkad chapter. He teaches engineering and management.

 

Dr. Eric Dorian

Dr. Eric Dorion is currently a professor titular at the University of Caxias do Sul in Brazil. He is the director of the Post-Graduate Program in Administration. Professor Dorion has established a research network with Chinese, Indian and European colleagues. He does research in Market Strategies.
 He also lectures in Canadian, French and some Brazilian universities and companies.

 

Professor Dr Faridah Hj Hassan

 
Professor Dr Faridah Hj Hassan
Professor Dr Faridah Hj Hassan, is a Director, Institute of Business Excellence, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia.  Currently, she is an external examiner for several public and private local universities and colleges, an active Fellow Member of professional Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK), and a Board Council and Regional Member for Malaysian CIM.  Her appointments were among others an ex Dean, an independent Board of Director as well as a former Panel Investment Advisor for a public listed trust fund company.
 
Her 27 years of teaching, supervising, examining, panel advising involves undergraduate, post graduate and professional courses offered by UiTM twinning with Cardiff, Manchester Business School, Curtin and local universitites such as Universiti Malaya, UPM, UIA, UUM, Universiti Petronas, Multimedia, Uniten, Limkokwing to name a few.  Her research interests are in the areas of Marketing and Strategic Management for the corporate and small medium companies, financial institutions and trust fund, public and private education, and tourism and government agencies.

 

Dr. James Ming-Hsun Chiang

 
 Dr. James Ming-Hsun Chiang is a native of Taiwan with over 20 years of experience in the electronics industry and trading business working on business development, international marketing and management.  He is the President and CEO of General Security International Corp, Taiwan

 

Dr. Darwish Almoharby

 


Dr. Darwish Almoharby is an Omani  national and former Dean of College of Commerce & Economics. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Management and also served as an Assistant Dean for undergraduate studies, Director of Administration in College of Medicine, and Director of Administration at the Language Centre, all at Sultan Qaboos University. Darwish received his BA in Business Administration from New England College, US (UK, 1990), MA in Organization, Planning & Management from the University of Reading (UK, 1996), and Ph.D. in Managerial Decision Making from the University of Reading (UK, 2001).

His research interest focuses primarily on organizational behavior and management decision making which he currently confines to areas of small & medium enterprises, entrepreneurship, and leadership. He is also interested in the role of power and culture in managerial decision making and quality assurance of academic programs. His professional membership extends to a number of local and international organizations which include AIB, AOM, and GTC (Sweden). He is also a fellow and a module leader of the international Academy of Entrepreneurship (INTENTAC) in Sweden. Darwish has been providing academic reviews for AOM, AIB, and Thunderbird, and has been serving as an academic program reviewer and Quality Assurance expert for the UNDP. He is also a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Management Development (IJMD).

 

Prof. M. Basheer Ahmed Khan

 Prof. M. Basheer Ahmed Khan has been in the field  of Higher Education in India and abroad since 1971. He won his Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial  Trust Award for excellence in Personnel Management and also the Jewel of India Award. He held positions in academia like University Professor in Poona University, Head of the Department of Economics, Director of the Centre for Tourism Studies of  Pondicherry  University, Director of International College of Law, Business Administration and  Technology, Ajman, President (Vice Chancellor) of the Middle East University, UAE, Head of the Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry  University and the Dean and Senior Professor of the School of Management of Pondicherry University under the Government of India. He is associated with several sub committees of  the Indian University Grants Commission, Government of India, All India Council of Technical Education of the Government of  India and a member of  several state government and union government committees and of several Indian and foreign universities. He is an acclaimed Management  Expert providing Industrial training, Industrial Consulting and  an international consultant of Higher Education. He is well known for establishment and development of  higher education campuses in the Middle East and India. He is widely traveled in  India, South Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa and North America.

 

Anli Suresh

India

Anli Suresh -Distinguished GSMI Fellow –Recognized  June 24, 2010

 

Dr. Chalard Chantarasombat

 

Chalard Chantarasombat, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Samuel Andoh
Dr. Samuel Andoh is a professor and Chairperson of the Economics and Finance Department at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He graduated with second class upper from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He earned MA and PhD degrees in economics from Virginia State and New York University, USA, respectively. Dr. Andoh and his colleague were awarded a three year grant of US$292K to help Khazar University restructure its School of Economics and Management. Dr. Andoh’s experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Azerbaijan are described in “Teaching Economics in a Transition Economy: A Fulbright’s Experience in Azerbaijan” Study Abroad: A Path to Lifetime Learning, Xiaohong He et.al. al. UCONN CIBER, University of Connecticut Press, Storrs, CT, 2004. Dr. Andoh has numerous journal and conference papers.
 
 
Val Samonis
 
Val Samonis, PhD, CPC, has worked with top business, technology, and policy leaders in many countries, e.g. Nobel Laureates in Economics and Finance (Tobin, Arrow, Solow, Leontieff, Klein) as part of The Stanford Economic Transition Group; Polish Deputy Prime Minister L. Balcerowicz, Czech DeputyPrime Minister P. Mertlik; other top experts globally; lectured internationally on trade, investment, corporate governance and enterprise restructuring, competitiveness, and ICT issues in the global economy; and has been extensively published. He has been contributing research on FDI and knowledge economy clusters to Columbia University's Program on International
Investment  Dr. Samonis managed and/or worked in international research and advisory ("blue ribbon") teams sponsored by The African Capacity Building Foundation (G-7 countries and global institutions), Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid Initiative (Cornell University and the University of Michigan), The Hudson Institute, World Bank, The OECD-World Bank Private Sector Advisory Group on
Corporate Governance, USAID, CASE Warsaw, EU (ACE, TEMPUS), Soros Foundations, The Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI Bonn), Joint Committee on Corporate Governance (Canada), ACCC/AUCC/CIDA (Canada), and a number of governments, e.g. in Baltic States, Poland, Canada.Prof. Samonis has been teaching online, onsite, and his DualModeInstruction(SM) comprehensive and specialized courses, modules, seminars, training sessions, briefing sessions, occasional lectures, as well as doing research and supervising graduate (EMBA, MBA, MA, PhD, DBA) students at the University of Toronto (Canada), Royal Roads University (Canada), University of Maryland UC (USA), Center for University Studies (USA & Mexico), National American University, (USA and globally), Touro University International (USA and globally), Warsaw School of Economics (Poland).
 
Warren H. Groff
Prof. Dr. Warren Groff he is the Director of Knowledge Management at Global Strategic Management Inc.  Prof Groff has 20 years of administrative experience in five quite different higher education contexts including assistant dean in the College of Education at Temple University, USA and chief academic officer in a private USA college. Warren helped create an International Business Program and chaired a High Tech Task Force for the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. He and helped create an Entrepreneurial Development Institute. He has been a consultant for diverse organizations for 20 years. He conducted strategic planning workshops for statewide systems and for many institutions including the University of Texas Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA. Prof Groff became an adjunct for a few doctoral programs at Nova Southeastern University, USA. He evaluated 1,000+ practicums in Computing & Information Technology and Human Resources Development. Prof Groff chaired 88 completed dissertations, 32 of which were evaluated as Outstanding. He keynoted in Taiwan in 1991 and 1993, on computer based distance education in 1994, and on strategic planning for Electronic Commerce in 1999. He keynoted a Korean Association for Information Education conference in South Korea and then spoke at Inchon National University of Education (INUE) in 1997. I spoke again at INUE in 1999. I spoke in Jamaica in 1997. Prof Groff is Knowledge Management expert. 

 
Melissa M. Saadoun
Dr. Melissa M. Saadoun has been the president of INEDIT (institute of education and the Impact of ICTs) a Paris, France,  based organization since November 1998.  Dr. Saadoum formed in Geneva the “World Organisation for Digital Equality” an NGO with members from 34 countries such as Algeria, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Cameroun, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Egypt, France, Ghana, Haïti, India, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Martinique, Morocco, Mauritania, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirats, USA, Vietnam.
She is also an adjunct professor at some universities. She has published many journal and conference papers; she is also the author/co-author of eight (8) books. Dr. Saadoum is an expert in knowledge management, project management, business  management, and information technology.
  
 
Abel Usoro
Dr Abel Usoro obtained his PhD in Information Technology from South Bank University, London, and an MSc in Systems Analysis and Design from UK,City University, London, UK. He earned MBA Strategic Management from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He also earned his BSc (Hons) in Management Studies (Banking and Finance) from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He currently lectures in the School of Computing, University of Paisley in Scotland, UK. His current research interests are information systems, knowledge management and e-learning. Dr. Usoro has numerous publications:in books, international conferences and refereed. Dr Usoro is an international chair of a number of conferences, a full member of the prestigious Information Institute and British Computing Society. He is also a member of the Academic Working Group for Manufacturing Performance in Scotland. His conference presentations have taken him across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa. For research and lecturing, he visits Laurea University in Finland and Anshan Normal University in China.
  
Anesh Maniraj Singh
Prof Anesh Maniraj Singh is the Head of the Graduate School of Business, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, since April 2006. He previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology. He obtained BA, MBA and DBA degrees from the University of Durban Westville,South Africa. Anesh has published a number of papers in South African and International Journals and Conferences. He is a member of the editorial panel of the South African Journal of Information Management and the South African Journal of Business Management. He serves as a reviewer for numerous conferences, journals and encyclopedias. Anesh has also served on numerous conference program committees. Anesh has had extensive management experience which includes being a Director of his own company, he has served as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Commerce in 2004, and has served as Interim Head of Information Systems & Technology from 2003 to 2004. Prof Singh served as an Executive Member of the IT Standards Generating Body of South Africa, he served on the Education Portfolio of the Computer Society of South Africa – KwaZulu-Natal Chapter and also held the position of Vice President of Marketing of the Computer Society of South Africa 2005 to 2007. His field of research is E-Business and the Impact of the Internet on Society.
 
Robert Davison
Professor Robert Davison teaches information systems at the City University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on Knowledge Management and Virtual Collaboration in the Chinese context. He often applies Action Research as a methodological lens, seeking both to understand and address organisational problem situations, while at the same time contributing to scholarly knowledge. Robert is the Editor of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, and an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal and Information Technology & People. Robert edited a special issue of the Information Systems Journal on Information Systems in China.
 
Gregory Yawson
Professor Gregory Yawson holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry/Chemical Metrology and an M.S. in Analytical Chemistry both from Harkov State University, Ukraine. Prof Yawson also hold a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Mathemetics from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Professor Gregory Yawason is a professor at the Lawrence Technological University, USA. He was a research professor at the Wayne State University and Madonna University, USA.  Prof. Yawson taught at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is a co-author of three books and has many conference and journal publications.