Maja Bašić
Maja Bašić is a Lecturer at the Department of International Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia, as of March 2021. During her 12 year work experience she published numerous articles in innovation, internationalisation and international economy. She worked on many domestic and international professional educational and scientific projects. Maja serves as a reviewer for domestic and international scientific journals. She has been a lecturer in numerous courses including: International Business, International Entrepreneurship, International Economics, Open innovation in global networks, and as a teaching assistant in Principles of Economics and Microeconomics. In 2014 Maja was a scholar of the Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship at the University of South Australia and the Australian National University Enterprise.
Prof. Richard Beswick
Lecturer in International Marketing and Market Research at Master’s Level for 30 years with faculties in Switzerland, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, and the USA, with students from every continent.
Mentor and Examiner for International Marketing and Social Science Theses and Dissertations for 30 years with faculties in Switzerland, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Kazakhstan, and the USA, with students from every continent.
Adjunct Faculty at four Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences: HSLU, HWZ, Kalaidos and SBS.
HSLU Association to date: OBM MSc. ARP and MT supervision and examination, running digital business simulation classes.
Publication of Articles in European and American management journals and conferences, including the American Marketing Association (AMA), European Marketing Association (ESOMAR) and IEEE and co-author of three books.
Andragogical Range: ex-cathedra lecturing, interactive teaching, case study and simulation development and deployment, online and in-class teaching, tutoring, mentoring and examining.
Founder and Managing Director of an International B2B Market Research and Consultancy for 30 years with over 100 Clients, including DuPont, Siemens and Schindler.
International Management in Multinational Corporations such as Dow, Biogen, and Gira.
Residence and Business Address: Zug, Switzerland.
Geoffrey Bwireh
For over 13 years, Geoffrey Bwireh has been teaching at the department of procurement & marketing, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, Mbarara University of Science and Technology in rural Uganda. Geoffrey has been engaged as a community based micro-enterprises trainer, entrepreneur and as well as associate consultant for several SMEs across the East African region in areas of procurement, supply chain management and entrepreneurship, e.g. the Nile Breweries Ltd and Ballore Logistics East Africa Limited. Within a year after his undergraduate program at Kyambogo University, Geoffrey founded M/smart Logistics (U) ltd, a commodity trading firm operating in the Busia commodity produce market, the largest of its kind in terms of volumes sold within East Africa.He is passionate about sharing his rural experiences as well as his career path in the rather resource-constrained setting in the Great Lakes region that lies squarely in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa. Geoffrey initiated and led several experiential learning programs across East Africa as a pioneer program coordinator for the internship and community engagement of the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, as country consultant for the Rice University, Business School MBA Global leadership course, and with the University of Virginia Darden School Business worldwide course. As the award winner for the 2016 Vice Chancellor’s Best Faculty Award, Geoffrey held guest lecturer positions at the University of Rwanda, Moshi Cooperative University in Tanzania and the United States International University in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya). As a visiting scholar at the George Washington University, he was also invited as a guest speaker at the University of Virginia, Rice University and the 2016 Coursera Global Conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
Kristel Deroover
Kristel currently leads a pioneering digital governance consulting firm- Human Ai Q-, guiding enterprises to ethically leverage AI and data, unlocking unprecedented value and efficiency.
As a seasoned European lawyer, Kristel held multiple leadership roles within multinational corporations, offering pragmatic advice on legal, compliance, integrity, and risk matters across diverse sector from chemicals to healthcare. Kristel is highly skilled and experienced in navigating corporations through the intricate, rapidly changing global regulatory and risk landscape, facilitating major corporate transformation and building strategic alliances in dynamic emerging markets. She has been instrumental in bolstering the resilience of international organizations, instilling exemplary governance, proactive compliance, risk management, and a culture of integrity. Kristel also contributes her strategic insight as a non-executive director on the board and audit committee of delaware Consulting International CV, a global ICT service provider at the vanguard of digital and business transformation.
Prof. Dr. Rebekka M. Ehret
After researching ethnic identities and multilingualism in Sierra Leone (PhD in Social Anthropology), Rebekka M. Ehret investigated intercultural relations in a Basel neighborhood, social mobility from 1st to 2nd generation among migrant families from Spain and Italy, and the handling of youth and violence in the context of migration. She wrote the integration policy model of Basel-Stadt as a white paper for the then migration delegate (1999), the essence of which was adopted by various cantons (University of Basel, 1992-2004).
From 2004 to 2006, Rebekka joined the UN as Chief of Language Unit for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), after which she continued to work as a consultant for the UN in Cambodia and the Lebanon as well as for Foundation Hirondelle. Since 2008 she has been working at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Department of Social Work (Institute for Sociocultural Development) where she is teaching and conducting research. Her field of expertise includes diversity, intersectionality, migration, transcultural communication. Since 1993 she has held several posts as a guest lecturer at Fourah Bay College, Freetown.
Dr. Bernhard Frei
Bernhard looks back on a track record of 20+ years in part-time adult education at European universities. He earned his doctoral degree in strategy development at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia, in addition to two European scientific degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering. Following an executive career at multinational companies in paramedicine (Red Cross), food industry (Philip Morris), and electrical engineering (Zoppas Industries), Bernhard now provides consulting services worldwide for the public transportation sector with an international team, and instructs trainees for the mountain rescue service. Bernhard enjoys teaching strategy development in a technological environment, both product and service sector, digitization and organizational transformation.
Timo Heroth
Timo Heroth is both a senior research associate at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a doctoral candidate at the University of St. Gallen, specializing in international corporate finance and big data equity research. Fluent in the Chinese language, his academic career has included studies in Germany and China with industry assignments for the German Chamber of Commerce and Bank of China. Firmly rooted in applied management practice as co-founder of a technology start-up, Timo will contribute his academically grounded, on-the-ground experience in managing cross-border finance and M&A activities.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Huber
Following 7 years in international sales and marketing roles within the ICT sector, Sebastian held various global positions in Marketing, Retail and Strategic Management with luxury brands Montblanc and Wellendorff between 2008 and 2017. Sebastian currently lives in Switzerland where he lectures and researches at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts -Business with a focus on the B2B sharing economy, service transformation in luxury brands and international management. He co-heads executive programs on International Management and Business Excellence while consulting international start-up entrepreneurs and SMEs.
Sebastian Huber holds a dual degree Master / MBA in International Business and Economics (China Focus) from Fudan University (Shanghai) and Hamburg University (Germany). He is currently a DBA candidate at Silpakorn University, Bangkok.
Prof. Dr. Max Monauni
Max is a professional expert in the areas of controlling, strategic management, cost accounting and gamified corporate learning. Since 2009 he has conducted more than 200 executive trainings, strategy conferences and management classes. He studied at Macquarie University in Sydney, the Mexican Tec de Monterrey, the German-based University of Stuttgart and Pforzheim Graduate School. As a consultant he worked in Germany, China, Thailand, and the United States especially in the automotive, insurance and consumer goods industry. Since 2017 he has been a lecturer for controlling and simulation-based learning at the Institute of Financial Services Zug (IFZ) at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Joseph F. Paris Jr.
He is a recognized thought leader on operational excellence, an international entrepreneur, a prolific writer, and a sought-after strategist, consultant, and speaker with engagements around the world. Having over 30 years of experience in international business and operations, he is routinely called upon to offer guidance to C-suite and senior executives, and business-operations and -improvement specialists who wish to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their organizations. He is sought by companies and academia to explore and address the challenges and opportunities of today, and illuminate and predict those of tomorrow. His end-goal is to help create high-performance individuals working in high-performance teams for high-performance organizations. Joseph currently serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (SSIE) in the Watson College of Engineering at Binghamton University, the Advisory Boards of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management and the RV College of Engineering (Bangalore, India), the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Industry Advisory Board, and the New York Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). He was previously an Adjunct Professor at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.
Edith Saladin
Edith Saladin looks back on more than 15 years professional management experience in international marketing, branding, product and retail both from an agency and client perspective. Her experience is predominantly with luxury and premium brands located in France, Hong Kong, the USA, Germany and Switzerland. An early adopter for digital transformation and social media communication in B2B, B2C and e-Commerce, Edith reorganized entire marketing departments to prepare them for the agile and digital realities of current and future marketing challenges. Repeatedly bridging organizational and cultural barriers from Asia to Europe and back, she succeeds at taking both a local and global perspective on strategic and operational aspect of the marketing discipline in organizations both large and small. Edith holds a Master’s degree in Marketing Communications from Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences in Germany and is currently Head of Marketing & ESG lead Switzerland for the global workforce solution provider Manpower Group.
Prof. Dr. Claus Schreier
Claus Schreier earned his Doctorate in International Management (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2001 from the European Business School, International University in Germany. In 1997 he graduated with a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Konstanz and in 1999 with a Master Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hagen. After his doctoral studies, he spent 3 years as a Senior Business Consultant for CSC Switzerland and another 3 years as a partner and management consultant for Prime-IT Consulting in Zurich, Switzerland. He is an Assoc. Professor and fulltime faculty member at Mahidol University International College (MUIC) in Bangkok, Thailand and is a lecturer in International and Intercultural Management. Furthermore, he is an adjunct professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Business (www.hslu.ch/ibr) in Switzerland. He has lectured at various institutions in Germany, Switzerland, the USA and Thailand. Important steps in his professional career include Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany), Winterthur Life&Pensions, Swiss Life (Switzerland) as well as UNESCAP in Bangkok/Thailand (www.unescap.org). His consulting company “Die Kulturarchitekten” (www.kulturarchitekten.ch) is specialised in international and intercultural issues.
Dr. Anna Sender-Jedrzejewska
Anna Sender is an expert in strategic and international human resource management (HRM). She earned her master’s in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and her PhD in management from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Before starting her PhD studies, Anna worked ten years for international companies in Poland and in Switzerland’s consulting and financial sectors. She currently lectures or has lectured at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Business (www.hslu.ch/ibr), the University of Lucerne, the University of Fribourg, and the University of Basel. In her teaching, she specializes in strategic human resource management, talent management, and HR analytics. Her research focuses on international HRM, talent management, compensation, and non-standard work (gig work, temporary work). She has acquired and led several applied research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Innosuisse. Furthermore, Anna is the leader of the CRANET project (www.cranet.org) in Switzerland.
Prof. Dr. Ingo Stolz
Ingo Stolz is passionate about developing international leadership skills in current and future leaders. To do this, he brings his international career to the classroom. He worked abroad for 10+ years, in Belgium, China, France, Russia and the US. While abroad, he led, managed and consulted on international projects in for-profit, non-profit, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Ingo grew up in Germany, but left almost 20 years ago. He has lived in Switzerland since 2011. Since 2014, Ingo has worked for the Hochschule Luzern/Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as a lecturer and researcher in International Leadership, Head Executive Education IBR, Co-Head Competence Center Corporate Development, Leadership and Perssonel, Head Doctor of Business Administration DBA, Co-Head MAS International Management, Co-Head MAS Business Management, Co-Head CAS Leading Global Teams and Projects, and Deputy Head CAS International Management.
Hannah Wise
Hannah Wise is an international journalist, with 19 years of experience in front of the camera. She started her career at the BBC in London working on local and national news stories before relocating to Paris to become the anchor of their flagship breakfast program. In 2014 she moved to Switzerland and became an anchor for the new English language business channel CNNMoney Switzerland. Hannah loves to tell the stories behind the businesses that shape our economy as well as the challenges of a live and demanding interview.
