Executive Board
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Prof. Mario Kafouros
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Mario Kafouros is a Professor of International Business and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, and he is also Associate Editor of the journal of International Business Review (IBR). He holds degrees from different countries in business & economics and electronic engineer as well as a PhD in global innovation. He has extensive industrial and academic experience in the field of innovation and international business as well as extensive experience in senior leadership roles in Universities and research centres.
He is the former Head of the International Business Department at Leeds University Business School, UK (2012-2016) and he has served as Director of Research and as member of the University of Leeds Cross-Faculty Impact Committee. He was also one of the three professors responsible for the previous REF submission of the entire Faculty and he is once again responsible for the forthcoming REF exercise. He is elected Secretary of the Academy of International Business and sits on its Executive Committee in the UK and Ireland. He is appointed adviser to the Commonwealth, a member of the Faculty Research Committee and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College. He is supervising / has supervised 11 PhD students. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Journal of Management (JoM), Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management Studies (JMS), Research Policy, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), British Journal of Management (BJM) and Journal of World Business (JWB). |