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Dr. Ioannis holds a BSc in Business Administration from La Verne University and received an MSc degree from Brunel University in HR and ER. His doctoral thesis—also from Brunel University—is in the area of corporate governance and is focusing on board roles and the impact of the external environment.
After a few years of teaching experience in UK institutions, he is currently a lecturer in Univerisity of West London, mainly teaching strategy and international business modules. Also, he is a director in Gnosis Management Consultatns Ltd. that specialises on strategy development, executive education and corporate governance aspects. His primary research interest is on corporate governance, strategy, planning, boards of directors, decision making. If you want to find out a bit more about you may visit his profile on LinkedIn.
Dr. Ioannis Gkliatis
Lecturer in Business and Management
The Claude Littner Business School
University of West London
www.uwl.ac.uk

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Pantea Foroudi (PhD, Brunel Business School). She initially studied for her first MSc degree in Graphic Design, Azad University, Tehran, Iran and second MA degree in Marketing and Communication Management, University of The Arts London.
Pantea’s major research interest is in corporate identity, corporate visual identity/design, branding, communications, and marketing with a particular focus on corporate logo, corporate image and corporate reputation from a Multi-Disciplinary approach. Pantea has attended more than sixteen international marketing conferences since 2007.

Pantea has several years of experience of working in marketing, design, advertising and market research firms and has conducted research projects in UK and Iran. She is the first translator of Photoshop III software to Farsi in 1997 and published Persian HairpinsBook in 2001 in Persian language. She has designed numerous visual identity and branding for various organisations. Pantea has developed a mainstream interest in higher education marrying research and practice to help managers and decision makers to collaborate with designers in a mutual understanding of the concept to enrich the market.

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Dr. Angelos Vouldis is an Adjunct Professor at the Robert Kennedy College in Switzerland and at the European University - International Business School in Munich and Barcelona, teaching business courses, supervising and marking MBA and MA theses. He has an extensive teaching experience in the department of Business School at the University of West London and the Cyprus Institute of Marketing, the Mediterranean Institute of Management (MIM) - Cyprus focused on supervising research projects and teaching business courses within undergraduate and graduate programs.

Beyond his academic career he has an extensive management background, experience and accomplishment in all aspects of strategic planning, performance management, sales and marketing management with Mercedes-Benz Cyprus. Additionally, He has a solid entrepreneurial approach to business and academic initiatives and have been cited for insight and creativity in developing workable solutions to expand operations, customer accounts, and bottom-line profits.

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Sharif a. Sheriff is a mathematician by qualifications. He also studied for an undergraduate degree in Atomic and Nuclear physics at the University of London. His masters are in Mathematics , Statistics and Operations Research.  Throughout the the past 28 years of teaching, he has developed more than 12 modules, of good academic standing, in the fields of mathematics , computing , operations and research methodologies. He started his academic career at the University of london before moving on to the post of senior lecturer at the University of West London, the then Thames Valley university.

Sharif is a contributer to the positivistic paradigm in research and has supervised a good number of Disserattions, at both , under and post graduate levels, in that philosophy.  In the past 12 years of his teaching , Sharif concentrated his work on the field of Financial Mathematics and Research Methodologies. He gained an excellent experience at Imperial College, London, working with Option Pricing Modules during his studies there.  At his current post , in the University of West London, he is the Area Leader of Quantitative Studies. This Area covers 7 modules within the curricula offered by the School of business.

Associate Editor

Javad Mahmoudi finished his PhD in Management Studies at Brunel University in London, UK. His doctoral thesis focuses on performance of international joint ventures in developing countries, in particular Middle Easter countries.

As well as developing a wide range of research interests which includes business management and international business, he has extensively developed research skills within wide range of research areas.  In addition, he has used various research approaches from quantitative and qualitative to mixed methods. Currently, his research interest is to use quantitative methods of analysis from research background in business and international business in order to develop his research for different countries to incorporated various communities across the world (i.e. developed countries with different cultural backgrounds)

Editor in Chief

Alireza Nazarian is a Senior lecturer in management in the Business School at the University of Westminster. He has a PhD in Management Studies from Brunel University in London, UK. He has published journal articles on national culture, organisational culture, organisational effectiveness and leadership.

Dr Nazarian has developed a wide range of research interests including business management, cross-cultural studies and HRM. He is also interested in the application of a variety of research methodologies in different areas of research. His current research projects include using his mixed research background in business, international business and cultural studies to enhance other managerial functions within organisations locally and globally. He is concerned with looking at the behavioural, organisational, and managerial aspects of different management functions within various organizations.