Prof. Dr. Jörg Finsinger has been active in the world of academia since 1982. Prior to joining MODUL University Dubai, he has held the Chair of Financial Services Research as well as the Chair of Public Economics at the University of Vienna. Previously, Prof. Dr. Finsinger held professorial positions at the University of Bern, University of Lüneburg, University of California, Tongij University in Shanghai, University of Miami, and University of Hohenheim- Stuttgart.
Full Bio PublicationsProf. Dr. Jörg Finsinger has been active in the world of academia since 1982 and prior to joining MODUL University Dubai has held the Chair of Financial Services Research as well as the Chair of Public Economics at the University of Vienna. Previously, Prof. Dr. Jörg Finsinger held professorial positions at the University of Bern, University of Lüneburg, University of California, Tongij University in Shanghai, University of Miami, and University of Hohenheim- Stuttgart. He is also a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, member of the Academy of Insurance, cofounder of the Finance and Ethics Academy in Austria, holds board memberships in public and private institutions - and has been a consultant for Government organizations in Brussels, Bonn, New York, Bern and Vienna. Beside being a successful academician, he has been a part of Board of Directors for several companies: IT Warehouse AG, Sigma Investment AG, Hamburg, Smart Trader AG, Zollikon, Global FX United and a CEO of several companies.
Dr. Katariina holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration, has an outstanding track record in teaching and has had her research published in leading international academic journals, such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, and Journal of Management Inquiry. Her research has also sparked a publication in the Financial Times and has been featured in the press releases of the Academy of Management and in the Times Higher Education, which demonstrates its impact beyond academia. Her research has won prestigious international awards, such as “Outstanding Article of the year 2014 in Academy of Management Learning and Education” and “Best Critical Management Learning and Education Paper by Academy of Management, Critical Management Studies Division in 2016”.
Dr. Katariina is an effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, team skills, and various academic and professional skills. She is fluent in English, self-motivated and possesses excellent planning, organizing, and communication skills with ability to establish goals and attain results.
With extensive experience in corporate management as well as management consultancy, Oliver Loisel balances strategy, business models and processes with E-Business and IT. His work covered the process industry, energy supply and infrastructure, governmental and education, banking, insurance and IT. As co-founder of the ATLAS group, he built up several companies in the service and IT industry and actively manages them. Dr. Loisel´s focus is on strategy and business models in the internet of things.
Dr. Loisel has more than 15 years of experience in top management consulting and adult education. He trained companies, managers, undergraduate and postgraduate students regarding General Management, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. For over a decade he held several hundreds of speeches during Europe´s largest E-Business Roadshow.
Oliver Loisel is an Austrian national based in Switzerland and has been active in the Middle East since 2011.
Thomas Meier is a Senior Counsel and Managing Director of Strohal Legal Group’s UAE-office in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, which is owned by Dr. Theodor Strohal.
Thomas Meier, a graduate of University of Innsbruck, Austria, School of Law, was working for over 6 years in renown international law firms in Vienna, Austria, and has passed the Austrian Bar exam with distinction. He also worked in New York City, USA, as well as in Hanoi, Vietnam. Furthermore, he has published articles about various legal issues concerning business law.
Since the beginning of 2017 he has been working in Strohal Legal Group’s Ras Al Khaimah office, where he advises clients from all over the world in every area of business law, including company setup, corporate law, labour law, international tax law and international contract law, amongst others.
Jana Krok, a German national, has expertise in consulting and processing the establishment of companies in the UAE and GCC region. Her main duties involve drafting and negotiation of contracts like NDAs, LOIs, Agency Agreements, Share Transfer Agreements, Board Resolutions. Her practical experience further spans to writing legal opinions in various fields of law - labor law, corporate law, inheritance law and international taxation. She has been a guest lecturer at MODUL University Dubai since its inauguration and an adjunct lecturer for undergraduate and MBA legal courses.
Dr. Rashad Yazdanifard earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Management) from Multimedia University, his Master of Industrial Management from Shahid Beheshti University, and his Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Azerbaijan Accounting and Management higher education institute. As an experienced lecturer with undergraduate and postgraduate experience, he is someone with potential and promise of teaching effectiveness and excellence at the undergraduate, MBA, DBA, and PhD levels, a track record of professional development, and student advising abilities, as well as other services to the department, school, and community. As a lecturer in different well-known universities and colleges teaching mostly international students in different levels of undergraduate and postgraduate, he has become a skilled academician with wide range variety of experiences. Moreover, he has been actively involved in training employees of different organizations internationally. Dr. Rashad has published widely in scientific journals and presented frequently in different international conferences.
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Line has an extensive knowledge in advising and helping clients navigate through all their financial, operational and budget related challenges at the policy and process level whilst ensuring compliance with international standards. She is currently responsible for overseeing financial operations for a strategic advisory company, after holding this position in an international advertising company. She worked with two of the big four accounting firms as a financial auditor and tax advisor, where she assisted MENA based conglomerates adhere to changing government regulations. She also participated in the VAT implementation, where her role was the preparation and review of the audit manual and the training of the auditing team.
Line holds a BA and a master in Finance and Banking from St. Joseph University in Lebanon and a Certified Public Accountant from California USA.
Dr. Strohal is an Austrian national and a Founder of Strohal Legal Consultants. In 1979, Dr. Strohal got admitted to the Austrian Bar cum laude after graduating from Vienna University. He has been working as a foreign lawyer in Singapore since 1993 in addition to offices in Myanmar and Qatar. Dr. Strohal has been a lecturer in financial and corporate law at postgraduate courses at the European Journalist Academy in the University of Vienna Campus from 2002 to 2004 and MODUL University Dubai from 2017. His main interests are: real estate, joint ventures and international taxation and corporate law.
Canadian University Of Dubai
Assistant Professor
University of Dubai
Assistant Professor
Shuaa Capital Asset Management
Consultant
Union National bank
Portfolio Manager
European Group for Brokerage
CEO, Executive Director
Financial Brokerage Group (Member of EFG –HERMES Group)
Licensed Stock Broker
Dr. Edith M Szivas, a British national, is a leading international expert in the area of Tourism and Hospitality with the track record in strategy and development of over 25 years. Her involvement into a number of Governmental projects aimed at strategic development of the hospitality industry across several countries in Europe and Middle East. She is an author of numerous publications and also she is actively engaged into public speaking.
Dr. Szivas has a vast academic experience in the Universities of London, Surrey, Greenwich, Macau, and others. Her ongoing consultancy activity with the leading global organizations like UNWTO and USAID has made her contribution into development of the industry truly invaluable.
Dr. Stranjancevic holds a PhD in an interdisciplinary field of Management in Sports and Tourism from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She also obtained a Master degree in an interdisciplinary field of Management in Sports and Tourism and a Bachelor degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She attended a Post-Doctorate exchange programme in Leisure - Culture, Tourism, Sport and Recreation as a Human Development Factor at the Institute of Leisure Studies, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Deusto University Spain.
Prior to joining MODUL University Dubai, Dr. Stranjancevic was an Assistant Professor at the Canadian University Dubai, UAE and Mediterranean University, Montenegro. She also acted as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty for International Management in Tourism and Hotel Industry, Montenegro / Algonquin College Ottawa, Canada. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, Akdeniz University in Turkey, Warsaw University of Life Sciences WULS - SGGW in Poland, University of Business Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, FH Burgenland - University of Applied Sciences Burgenland in Austria.
Dr. Stranjancevic participated in several governmental and international research projects, attended many international conferences and published several scientific articles in the field of tourism, hospitality and sports management. She is also experienced in the tourism and hospitality industry, having worked as a Marketing and Sales Manager in hospitality and tourism companies.
Jasmina Locke is a forward-thinking education professional, with over ten years of experience in training, lecturing and curriculum development, in both corporate and academic domain. Result-driven and persuasive MBA graduate, with extensive managerial experience and a proven track-record in Tourism industry, Commercial, and Corporate Aviation, winning over customers and creating buy-in with senior stakeholders.
Jasmina Locke is specialised in instructional design, development, delivery, and evaluation of learning programmes. She utilises her broad technical knowledge of management theory and experience, always making sure her classes are relevant and dynamic, and her students enabled to put theory into practice.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.a) in Business and Management
International Joint Doctoral Programme, BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia, Stockholm School of Economics and University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business and Management – Research Semester
Northumbria University, United Kingdom. Faculty: Newcastle Business School. AACSB accredited and awarded as "The Best UK Business School of the Year 2015" by the "Time Magazine"
Master of Arts in Financial Services Management
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Campus Zweibrücken, Germany
Master of Science in Information Management
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Campus Zweibrücken, Germany
Master of Arts in International Finance and Entrepreneurship
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Campus Zweibrücken, Germany
Bachelor of Arts in International Hospitality and Tourism Management
IUBH - School of Business and Management Bad Honnef (Member of the Leading Hotel Schools of the World), Campus Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Diplom in Hotel Economics
Steigenberger Academy for Hotelmanagement, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Qualified EDP User HWK
Accessory Education and training in MS Office, Chamber of Crafts and Trade Munich and Bavaria, Germany
University Lecturer
Event Management
ZFH – Zentralstelle für Fernstudien in Deutschland – University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany
University Guest Lecturer
International Management and Marketing
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany
University Guest Lecturer
Project Management
BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia
University Guest Lecturer
Corporate Communications
BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia
University Guest Lecturer
International Management
BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia
University Guest Lecturer
Risk Management
University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, The Netherlands
University Guest Lecturer
International Marketing and Event Management
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
University Guest Lecturer
International Marketing and Event Management
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
University Guest Lecturer
Strategic Marketing
BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia
University Guest Lecturer
Start Up and Entrepreneurship
Instituto Politecnico de Setubal, Portugal
University Guest Lecturer
Project Management
WSB Wroclaw University of Banking, Poland
Kleber, D.M.S., Volkova, T. (2016). Value Innovation Frameworks for delivering superior customer responsiveness. Journal of Business Management 12, 34-45. – ISSN: 1691-5348
Kleber, D.M.S., Volkova, T. (2017). Value Co-Creation Drivers and Components in Dynamic Markets. Journal of Marketing and Branding Research 4, 249 – 263. – ISSN: 2476-3160
Kleber, D.M.S. (2018). Design Thinking to deliver superior customer value. Etikonomi: Journal Ekonomi 17 (2). ISSN: 2461-0771
Kleber, D.M.S., Volkova, T. (2018). Key Success Factors to increase value proposition in the hospitality industry. Journal Publication in process.
Kleber, D.M.S., (2018). Actual and Future Trends and Challenges in Hospitality. Journal Publication in process.
Member of the International Programme Committee of the following scientific conferences:
Three teaching textbooks and more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and papers; most of which are open access at ResearchGate and Academia[dot]edu.
RG score 15.61; citations 760; h-index 9
Google Scholar citations 1558; h-index 13
(2004) ‘Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector’, (with Joanne Jacobs), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 20(2), 232-247. [downloaded 20,836 times from QUT ePrints]
(2006) ‘Assertion-reason multiple-choice testing as a tool for deep learning: A qualitative analysis’, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 31(3), 285-99.
(2009) 'The efficacy of final examinations: A comparative study of closedbook, invigilated exams and open‐book, open‐web exams', (with Amy Wong), British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (2), 227-236. More than 50 other published articles in newspapers and periodicals, and numerous blogs, most recently on Medium[dot]com. Widely circulated through social media. Klout score: 60.
Numerous keynote speeches at international conferences around the world, and invited seminar presentations at universities and professional associations.
More than 70 presentations on Slideshare, with around 8500 views in the past 12 months.
The democratisation of education: Will technology live up to the promise?, Keynote address, Visible, Viable, Valuable - Traversing New Landscapes in Student Engagement and Development, ANZSSA Annual Conference, Hobart, 7 December 2015.
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The Case for the Integration of Natural Capital (… or how accountants can save the planet), Invited speaker at Symposium on Natural Capital: The Business Case and Relevance to Financial Institutions, Sofitel Hotel, BKC, Mumbai, Jointly organised by GIZ working on behalf of the Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and YES Bank, 14 November 2014
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The Flipped Classroom: How to Flip and not Flop (Including 10 Tips for New Players), Invited speaker at Designing our Learning Futures: Technology-Enhanced Learning Symposium, Learning Futures, Griffith University, Brisbane, 31 October 2013.
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Have served as executive peer reviewer for, among others:
Prof. Jürgen Simon, with for 40 years of academic experience, is a Guest scholar at the Law University Hanoi in Vietnam, Head of the Institute of Law at the University of Lüneburg, Chair of the European Technology Platform for Nanomedicine and former Head of the innovation and cooperation department at Siemens Healthcare. He has also held positions at CERN and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. His research focuses on themes relating to Law and Biotechnology, Environmental Law, Economics and New Information Technologies. He is the author of many books and articles in these areas.
Editor of the publication series "Law, Economy and Environment"
Editor of the publication series of the Institute for Environmental Sciences of the University Lüneburg
Editor of the publication series "Environmental Sciences in Theory and Practise (with Jansen)"
Dr. Hounaida Abi Haidar, an Irish/Lebanese national, is an expert in the areas of Urban Geography with the track record in strategy and policy analysis. Her involvement into a number of Academic and Non-Governmental urban and environmental projects gained her experience in the field. Dr. Abi Haidar is a graduate of the American University of Beirut- Lebanon, Oxford University- UK and Trinity College Dublin- Ireland and has worked at these universities. She has 10 years of academic experience in Environmental and Urban Policies, 10 years of research in basic sciences and urban studies and 5 years experience in private sector.
Well-rounded leader with 30 years experience. Combination of operational disciplines (factory management, operations improvement, industrial engineering, regulatory affairs, quality, safety, health & environment, sustainability, R&D), with communications, issues management and stakeholder engagement.
Values-based yet pragmatic, strategic thinking with implementation and results focus, passionate, strong communication skills, change agent.
Past membership in various external (World Economic Forum, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, World Environment Center) and internal Nestlé Group Committees (Sustainability, Compliance Committee, Corporate Communications, Human Rights)
Dr. Hanen is a lecturer with 8 years of academic experience at international Universities such as Université Paris – Sorbonne, Université Paris XII Creteil and Université d’Angers in France. She has also taught a wide range of courses in UAE (Canadian University in Dubai, Synergy University in Dubai) and Tunisian universities. Dr. Hanen’s fields of expertise are Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics and Exchange Rate Regimes. Dr. Hanen worked also as an economist in a consulting company in Dubai.
Dr. Declan McCrohan, an Australian national, has over a decade of experience working in the field of Academia throughout Asia and the Middle East. His academic experience and unparalleled leadership skills have enabled him to develop and deliver a number of unique undergraduate and postgraduate courses at a number of universities including Alfaisal University in the KSA, Zayed University and Heriot Watt University in the UAE and Victoria University in Australia. Dr. McCrohan’s research interests cover a wide range of areas including financial modelling of Middle Eastern stock markets, entrepreneurship drivers in the Middle East and the development of international education offshore programmes, with particular focus on Australian Tertiary Institutions’ expansion into Asia and the MENA Region. Dr. McCrohan was also the team leader of the 2009 UAE GEM Study into Entrepreneurship in the UAE.
I truly believe that “without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” I introduced data analytics solutions combined with contemporary advances in social networks and persuasive techniques to support the intelligent industry and smart universities of the future through: (1) Integrated Analytics to inform the decision making process and enable holistic contextualdecisions; (2) Big Data and Real-Time Scoring to analyze data at massive scale and in real time; (3) Social Media Mining to get deeper insights into attitudes and behaviors, and build more accurate predictive models; (4) Time and Spatial Dimensions to create opportunities for more accurate context-aware decisions on right place and right time; and (5) Micro-targeting and Privacy to achieve personalization and support individualbehavioral analytics.
I also believe “education is a debt due from present to future generations”; and I am strongly aspire to contribute in clearing this dept. As the global socio-economic challenges place demands on the 21st Century higher education to use advancements in digital technologies and big data analytics to enable personalized learning experiences under value-added smart educational models. My current research focuses on developing: (1) a model that integrates Industry 4.0 technologies with social and behavioral analytics to unite likeminded learners with common career prospects and expert mentors for collaborative cognitive attainment; and (2) a virtual space that connects together similar career-aspiration individuals who are socially influenced to join and engage in a process for domain-related knowledge and practice acquisitions. Both models can be integrated into higher education to extend traditional graduate and professional development programs.
I consider one of my most distinguishing characteristics is the diversity of experiences I possess. I am a woman with scientific and technical aptitudes and an interest in business and management. My Computer Science degree has given a strong foundation to my analytical skills while my experience across diverse industries has enhanced my interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. More than what I have studied in school and college, it has been these experiences that have shaped the person that I am today.
I have presented my research work in several international conferences and peer-reviewed publications. My articles address Big Data analytics, educational technological solutions, IT governance and smart professional development programs with related perspectives on strategies and investment decision processes; one of which selected as a chapter in the “State-of-the-Art and Future Directions of Smart Learning” by Springer while my early article “UAE-IHC: Steps towards Integrated E-Health Environment” won the best paper award. I trust that I can contribute to your institute by providing the tools and practices that turn data into insights to seize opportunities and get more proactive and innovative.
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