Yusaf Akbar
Associate Professor
Academic Director of MBA Programs
Associate Professor of Management and International Business
Building:
Frankel Leó út 30-34. Room:
313 Phone number:
+36 1 887 5097 Qualifications:
DPhil, University of Sussex, UK
MA, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
BA (Hons), University of Sussex, UK
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets.
His main teaching interests are in Strategic Management and International Business.
He has taught at Universities and Business schools all over the world including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada; Central European University, Budapest; Thunderbird Europe; European Business School London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro.
His main research interests are in international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe and non-market strategies of emerging market multinationals.
He has recently published two books the first entitled EU Enlargement and Central Europe: Regulatory Convergence and the Multinational Enterprise and another volume, Global Antitrust: Trade and Competition Linkages. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of World Business, Business and Politics, Global Governance, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Thunderbird International Business Review and World Competition.
He is an Editorial Advisory Board member on the following journals: Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business and the European Journal of International Management.
He has consulted with Toyota, Citibank and Deutsche Telekom and been an Advisory Board Member to NESsT (Non-Profit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team), an organization involved in social venture capital and philanthropy.
Academic/Research Areas:
Business and Management Studies Language proficiencies (spoken):
English (excellent) Language proficiencies (spoken):
French (advanced) Language proficiencies (spoken):
Italian (good) Language proficiencies (spoken):
Dutch Language proficiencies (spoken):
Hungarian (intermediate)