His Royal Highness Prince Saud Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud - Saudi Arabia

OUS Patron

OUS is proud having His Royal Highness Prince Saud Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as our Patron, His Royal Highness is well-known for his international activities Humanitarian aid, in December 2016 His Royal Highness donated to refugees from the middle east around 1.5 Million USD. His Royal Highness Prince Saud Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud always supported OUS when it is needed. Under his Patronage, OUS was able to be a recognized member of the ISESCO which is a recognized body in all over the world. OUS Team and Students are thankful for His Royal Highness Prince Saud Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for all support His Royal Highness gave to OUS

Mr. Victor Zhenchenko, Chancellor - Ukraine

OUS H. Chancellor

Victor Zhenchenko was born in 1936. He is one of most famous cultural leaders in Europe and post USSR countries. - Singer, poet, actor, Opera and theatre worker, interpreter (Speaks Tatar, Belarusian, Russian, Azerbaijani, Latvian and Kazakh language) Honored Artist in 1997, Member of the Ukrainian Union of Writers since 1975. Currently working in Educational and Cultural Administration.

1. Commander of the Order of St. Vladimir the Great, St. Michael the Archangel.
2. Laureate of the literature prize Andriy Malyshko.
3. Honored citizen of the country

Ms. Derya Briand, MLaw, LLM - Switzerland

Director of Academic Studies / Head of Legal Department 

Born on 25 June 1984, Derya Briand is a lawyer who has been living in Switzerland for the past seven years. She holds a Bachelor in Law from Cyprus, a Master in International Law and Comparative Law, LLM in Business law and EU Law from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and soon will obtain her PhD degree in International Investment Law from the University of Lausanne. She speaks fluent Turkish, English and French. She has a concrete understanding of German and Italian and is currently learning Russian and Chinese. She has worked with various international organizations such as UN and ILO. She has also worked in the banking sector. She likes jazz music and she is very interested in international economics. She is a multicultural person, with a sense of humour, she believes there is no age limit on learning.

Mr. A. Podolsky, MLaw - SOL

Senior Legal Officer

Mr. Podolsky holds a Master Degree in Law from a European Public University, a member of the BAR association and European Lawyers Union.

 Dr. Lawrence Monteilh - USA

OUS Director of Academic Affairs and senior lecturer

Dr. Larry worked for more than 20 years in the education field, he holds Doctorate in Public Administration from University of La Verne and Outstanding Contribution Award Doctorate in Business Administration from University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and he worked for University of Phoenix as Director Academic Affairs, Online Instructor and Mentor - Doctorate Bus Admin Program for University of Liverpool and Senior Lecturer Curriculum Developer Course writer CorpCommunication, Mangement for Fontbonne University.    

Ms. Toleen Monzer

Deputy Head of Admission

Ms. Monzer, was born in Dubai. She holds a degree in Engineering from a State University. She has nearly 10 years Experiance working with people from all over the world. Since 2017 she has worked for OUS and taking care about all international students

Mr. Abuelmakarem Elaaser

IT Manager

Mr. Elaaser, holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Higher Institute for Advanced Studies, and a Diploma (Advanced level) from University of Cambridge. From 2004-2016 he worked as a Senior System Administrator for an American global corporation that sells its technology products in more than 160 countries. From 2017 he started to work as the IT manager of OUS, with responsibility of taking care of OUS websites, Platforms, and the virtual study methods..    

Professor Dr. Alexandrina Pauceanu - Romania

OUS Faculty

Dr. Maria holds Ph.D. in Management, Doctoral School, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest and working at the same time at College of Business administration, Dr. Maria is teaching Global Management and Business Administration.

Ms. Anja Huwiler - Switzerland/Canada

OUS Faculty

Anja Huwiler is a Swiss-born educator and passionate learner. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (honors) degree as well as a Masters in Education (Postsecondary Studies) from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Over the years, Anja Huwiler has taught many adult learners from a wide variety of backgrounds and helped them reach their academic potential. In her spare time, Anja enjoys sitting at a café reading about all sorts of things, spending time with her friends and family, creating art, eating delicious food, and spending time outdoors.

 Mr. Adrian Archer - Malta

OUS Faculty

Mr. Adrian comes from Malta, he holds MBA from University of Malta.

Dr. Ali Abbas Zaidi - Switzerland/Pakistan

OUS Faculty

Dr. Ali is doing his Postdoctorate in ETH Zurich, Switzerland, he holds D.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, and a M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan.   

Dr. Asaad Nasif - Egypt

OUS International Postgraduate Dean and Senior Lecturer

- He holds a Doctorate from Ain Shams University in Egypt one of the best universities in the Middle East. - He worked as an expert on planning and follow-up of one of the National Councils of the Egyptian Presidency of the Council of Ministers in 2002-2003. - He also worked as an expert in the pre-university education development committees under the auspices of the European Union, the World Bank and the Egyptian Ministry of Education from 2008-2011. - He also served as the head of the quality education teams of the Egyptian National Authority for Quality Assurance of Education, which is affiliated to the Prime Minister's Office from 2010 to 2013. - He is also an advisor to international arbitration in the field of international commercial arbitration and disputes in investment contracts from 2012 until now. - He is also an international member of Amnesty International- - He has many scientific publications and research articles published in the University Library in Zurich, Switzerland. In the fields of: Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Marketing and Sales Management, Ethical Values in Business Administration, Management Psychology, Management Sociology, Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. Management of hospitals, pharmacy and health facilities - research methods and thesis writing in the field of management - management of negotiation and international commercial arbitration. - He has many training programs and guidance in the field of psychology in addition to many psychological tests and standards.

Prof. Dr. Bachioua Lahcene - KSA

OUS Faculty

Dr. Bachioua wrote many books in English, French and Arabic languages, at the same time he is working at Hail University KSA, he holds 2 Doctorates, one from University of Jordan and the other from University of Baghdad.     

Prof. Dr. Domenico Lamanna Di Salvo - Italy

OUS Faculty

From Italy, born in 1970, he holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Management from Switzerland.

Mrs. Dutta Kakuli - Germany/Switzerland

OUS Faculty

Mrs. Kakuli holds a Master Degree from University of Bonn and doing her Doctorate in University of Bonn.

Dr. Dalia M. Hikal - Saudi Arabia

OUS Faculty

Lecturer in the Faculty of Specific Education Mansoura University, Egypt. Ph.D. in the Education and Food Science with Grade Excellent. Post Graduate Diploma in the Management of Nutrition in Institutions and Hospitals -Educational Supervisor, -Certified International Trainer, - Certified Member of the Global Academy for Training and Development, - Certified Member in Al-Moalim Academy for Training and Consulting,-Certified Trainer in the Ministry of Education (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Dr. Eyongabi Carlson Ngwa - Switzerland

OUS Faculty

Dr. Carlson comes from Niederlenz in Switzerland, he holds a Doctorate in Management from University of Phoenix (USA) and Msc in IT from University of Derby (UK).

Prof. Dr. Eman Ibrahim - Egypt

OUS Faculty

Prof. Dr. Eman graduated from Leading Universities in Egypt, she is teaching at the same time in few top universities in Africa, Prof. Eman is teaching our students ICT module.

Mr. Adam Ibra

OUS Admission and Support office

Mr. Adam, holds a bachelor degree in Orientalism and has worked for many year in I.R., sale and customers' support.

Prof. Dr. George Iatridis - Greece

OUS.nbsp;Faculty

George Iatridis is an associate professor of accounting and finance at the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Greece, and the director of the MSc in Accounting and Auditing. Dr. Iatridis is the financial accounting subject editor of the International Review of Financial Analysis (Elsevier) and has published more than 46 research papers in international peer-reviewed academic journals. He has worked as a lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance, University of Manchester, UK. He has also taught at the University of Athens and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). Dr. Iatridis studied Accounting and Finance at postgraduate level at the Universities of Manchester (Ph.D.) and Southampton (MSc). Before graduate school, he studied Economics at the University of Athens, Greece. His current research interests mostly relate to the economic consequences of the implementation of international financial reporting standards, accounting policy choice, earnings quality, and earnings conservatism. Dr. Iatridis participates in the Greek Accounting and Auditing Oversight Board, Ministry of Economics. He has also acted as the Deputy Chairman of the Greek Auditing Practices Board.

Dr. Hanan Abd Al Hady - KSA

OUS Faculty

Dr. Hanan graduated in 2012 from Ain Shams Universit in Egypt with a Ph.D. in International Law, Dr. Hanan is working at the same time at Dar Al Uloom University in KSA and teaching our students Business law and International Relation.

Dr. Ilídio Silva - Switzerland/Portugal

OUS Faculty

Dr. Ilidio holds a PhD from Universidad de Salamanca - Spain, a Master from Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal. Her full CV can be found under her LinkedIn.

Ms. Irina Djukic - Switzerland/Hungary

Internship - OUS Alumni

Irina was born in Serbia however she comes from Hungary and since October 2015 she is working in OUS Offices in Zurich. She was a student at OUS until Sep 2015. 

Irma Novikova - Russia

OUS Guest Lecturer

Ms. Irma comes from Russia, she holds MBA in Marketing from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

Dr. Jenna Macciochi - Switzerland

OUS Faculty

Dr. Jenna Macciochi, originally from Scotland UK and living in Switzerland, gained her undergraduate studies in Immunology from the University of Glasgow. She pursued her interests in Immunology with postgraduate and doctoral studies at Imperial College London UK (focusing on gastrointestinal, autoimmune and allergic respiratory disease). Dr. Macciochi then acquired progressive experience in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry. In her last position, she was a Presidential Fellow at the Novartis Institute of Biomedical Science in Switzerland where her work is different research field with focus on nutrition and the immune system in clinical and pharmaceutical areas. 

Dr. Joseph Gerada - Malta

Office of Legal Affairs in Europe (AGG Advocates)

Dr. Joseph is OUS Advocate for Europe, he holds a Doctorate of Law (LL.D) from University of Malta.

Associate Professor Dr. Junaid M. Shaikh - India / Malaysia

OUS faculty and senior lecturer

Dr. Junaid qualifications are B.Com.(Hons).,M.Com; M.Phil; G.D.C.A., Ph.D., FAIA(Acad UK) Fellow AIA(Acad), Fellow(AAFM) and he has teaching experiance for over 23 years teaching at International Universities and now working as full time at OUS.

Professor Dr. Kasem Al Naimi - Russia/Syria

OUS faculty and senior lecturer

Dr. Kasem holds a PhD in Economy from Lomonosov Moscow State University and was working as Associate Dean of the largest university in Syria, University of Damascus Business School. Dr. Kasem is now our International Dean for the International Departments (Russian & Arabic). 

Prof. Dr. Kenneth J. Muschelewicz – Germany

OUS Faculty

Professor Dr. Kenneth is an American who relocated to Germany several years ago. He holds a B.S. from Illinois State University, a Master’s Degree from The Univ. of Alabama Birmingham and a Ph. D. from the Univ. of Tennessee. Dr. Kenneth is also the holder of seven United States Patents. He began his career in the USA working for three major plastic material producers before transferring into Europe. He started in New Product Development and then moved into Customer Technical Service. Upon his relocation into Europe, he moved into Commercial Marketing working on New Business Development. Dr. Kenneth has lead several international teams on implementation of new business development strategies, was instrumental in building new customer relationships and helped establish several new market applications for innovative new products. He also was involved in the establishment of a new school in Lebanon for Syrian refugees, organized special teacher training seminars and was involved in employee training during the implementation of key principals associated with a company becoming a Learning Organization. His complete background and experience can be found on his LinkedIn page.

Dr. Kleanthis Katsaros – Greece/Cyprus

OUS Faculty

Dr. Katsaros holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration; two Master degrees in Information Systems and International Economic Relations respectively; and he has a Ph.D. in Strategic Change Management & Organizational Behaviour from Macedonia University, Greece. He is also Postdoctoral Researcher at Athens University of Economics and Business. He has published in numerous international peer-reviewed academic journals, while his teaching/research interests lay in the field of Organizational Behavior and Business Administration; and more specifically in Change Management, Leadership and Human Resources Management.

Dr. Leandros Maglaras - Greece/UK

OUS Lecturer

Dr. Maglaras obtained the B.Sc.  from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. from the University of Thessaly in 2004 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Thessaly.

Mr. R. Lukas - Switzerland 

OUS Guest Lecturer

Mr. Lukas is a guest lecturer at Harvard University and many other well-known Universities, he holds an MBA from Zurich University of Applied Science.

Dr. Reda Farouk Hafez Said - Egypt 

OUS Lecturer

Assistant professor of psychology in many Arab and foreign universities, including the Arab Open University in Kuwait, Um Al Qura University in Saudi Arabia, Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia, Education College, International City University of Malaysia for online education, Qarios University in Libya, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Minia Branch, An international trainer in the field of behavioral and administrative development for normal people and special needs People.He is a psychologist, marriage counselor, journalist and presenter of some television programs on psychological, family and Marriage counseling.

Mr. Michael Krawczynski - Poland

OUS Guest Lecturer

Mr. Michael comes from Poland and holds a Master in International Relations from the University of Lower Silesia.

Dr. Mutrik Al Qahtani - KSA

OUS Lecturer

Dr. Mutrik bin Mohammed Al Qahtani is a legal consultant and an international arbitrator with a number of international courts specialized in commercial law. He is a participant in many internal and international conferences and holds many legal and specialized courses in arbitration.

Prof. Dr. Naser Al Ali - Russia

OUS Faculty

Dr. Naser holds a Ph.D. from the Peoples Friendship University of Russia.

Dr. Papanaklis Thanos  - UK

OUS Faculty

Dr. Thanos originally from Greece, living in the UK, holds BSc in Computer Electronics from the University of North London, MSc in International Management from King's College – the University of London and a DBA with an emphasis in Business Information Technology. He has extensive international experience across multiple industries and has managed IT Departments in multinational companies with a focus on Business/IT alignment. He has expertise in Business Change, Knowledge Management, Decision Support Systems and a wide range of other Information Systems. He is founder and Director of an independent IT Management Consultancy, which also operates in the eBusiness space. Dr Thanos is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management and a Chartered IT Professional. He will be teaching and supervising ICT related topics.

Mr. Patrick Nassif - USA

OUS Faculty

Mr. Patrick from United States, he holds a Master (MA) in National Security from AMU-USA in 2014 and another Master (MA) in International Relations from AMU-USA 2011 as well BA degree in Middle Eastern studies from AMU-USA in 2009 and BA degree in Mathematics from Madonna University USA in 2003 and now working as part-time at OUS. 

Mr. Praveer Dutta - India/Germany

OUS Faculty

Mr. Praveer comes originally India, he holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor from Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya. Mr. Praveer will be teaching mostly Sales and Marketing for OUS Undergraduate Students. 

Mr. Roger Schmid - Switzerland

OUS Guest Lecturer

Mr. Roger comes from Switzerland, Writer, keynote speaker, founder and co-founder of two companies, independent business consultant. Mr. Roger is the President and owner of the black elephant GmbH, as well he wrote a book about "Der Kunde ist dein grösster Fan - The customer is your biggest fan".

Prof. Dr. Robert N. Lussier - USA

OUS Guest Lecturer

Dr. Robert N. Lussier is a guest professor at OUS Switzerland and a professor at Springfield College and the author of more than +440 publications. More than 1 million students globally have used Lussier books.

 Prof. Ronan Gruenbaum - UK

OUS Guest Lecturer

Prof. Ronan Gruenbaum is the Associated Dean of Hult business School and he is teaching from time to time our Students about the digital marketing and social media. 

Mr. Roy Rushforth - UK

OUS QUALITY Consultant

Mr.Roy comes from Birmingham, United Kingdom, has over 40 years experience in Quality, he holds a Bachelor of Science from a state university in the UK.

Mr. Sam Paul - Switzerland

Training

Mr. Sam Paul was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He is doing his training at OUS.

Dr. Steve Jang - China

Faculty

Dr. Steve holds two PhDs, the first from Colorado State University and the other from University of Southampton 

Mr. Viacheslav Ivanov - Ukraine

OUS Public Relations Representative

Mr. Ivanov comes from Kiev in Ukraine. He holds BA with Honours in Hospitality Business from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and from a Swiss Hotel Management School. He worked in top High-Class Hotels around the World, such as One&Only in Maldives and Hilton in Kiev. He speaks fluently Russian, Ukrainian, English, and German. He has vast experience in working with Embassies and FORBES Top 100 Businessmen. Currently, he is working on building the relationship between Ukrainian and Swiss on building the relationship between Ukrainian and Swiss Education, moving Ukraine to European standards.

Dr. Thanasak Ole Ruankaew - USA

OUS Part-Time Faculty

Dr. Ole from the United States graduated in 2007 BS in Business Management, West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Chester and in 2008 MBA, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown, and in 2012 PhD-BA-Advanced Accounting, North Central University.

Dr. Mohamed Abbas - KSA

Dr. Abbas acquired his B.Sc in Electronics Engineering from Mansoura University, faculty of Engineering, Egypt in 1998. He obtained M.Sc degree in computer engineering from Mansoura University in 2002 and Ph.D degree in computer engineering from Mansoura University 2008. Since this date he worked as an assistant professor in Delta University, Faculty of Engineering in department of Communications and Computer engineering. He is currently working in department of Electrical Engineering, King Khaled University, Abha, KSA. His area of interest is computer architecture, intelligent systems, medical informatics and bioinformatics.

Dr. Louis Laganà - Malta

holds a Doctorate in Art History from Loughborough University in the UK. He lectures on Art, Culture and Events and Exhibiting Cultures: The Arts and the Media with the Institute For Tourism, Travel and Culture, History of Image Making at the Digital Arts Department, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, and Psychoanalysis and Art at the Psychology Department, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta. Dr. Laganà supervises students reading for their BA, MA and PhD in Art History, Cultural Tourism and Psychology and the Arts. Dr. Laganà is also an art historian, art critic, curator and practicing artist. He specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art History and his research interests include 20th Century Art, Psychoanalysis and Art, Jungian Aesthetics, Primitivism, and Visual Culture and Tourism. He has delivered papers in many conferences in different countries and contributed articles in learned journals and newspapers.

Dr. Mohammed Elsabbagh - KSA

Dr. Elsabbagh graduated with BSC in Accounting from mansoura university (2001), further he completed his MBA from AABFS Arab academy for Banking and Financial sciences in the year 2009 with Grade of Excellent. In the year 2014 Dr. Elsabbagh completed successfully his PhD in Business Management at Al-Madinah international University. Dr. Elsabbagh is teaching in differetn universities and institutions in different countries, including Saudi Arabia since more than 10 Years.

Dr. Louna Farhat - Lebanon

she is assistant professor in Law, obtained her Doctorat d'État in law from the Faculty of law-Lebanese University. She specialized in International law and Constitutional law. She taught at the college of law at Royal University for women in Bahrain, at Kuwait international law school in Kuwait. She also worked in the interreligious field for 10 year at the Islamic Christian institute, Saint Joseph University in Beirut –Lebanon. As scientific researcher, Dr. Farhat published 2 legal books and several articles cover human rights and environmental issues.

Dr. Thelma Calix - Americas

Dr. Thelma Calix is a professor in the Department of Tourism and Nutrition as well Hospital and Health care. She received a B.S. in Agroindustry in 2005 from Zamorano University, at Honduras. She obtained a M.S. degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from University of Florida in 2008, with a Minor in Food and Resource Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from Texas A&M University in 2011. Dr. Calix joined OUS in December 2017. Dr. Calix´s research interest is in the utilization of food antimicrobials to inhibit bacterial foodborne pathogens. Natural food antimicrobials are diverse in their chemistry, spectrum of activity, sources, and applications within foods. Other areas of expertise include non-thermal processing of foods, food product development and food safety.

Dr. Gassem Zoor - Brazil

PhD in international law, faculty member of different universities in the middle east, former head of international law at Homs University, international law expert at the Arab European Center for International Law and Human Rights in Norway, member of the International Humanitarian Law Association in the Arab World. Dr. Gazoor is Research and wrote many legal books and participated in many international conferences.

Dr. Moustafa Ismail - KSA

Academic Faculty member

Dr. Ismail, Ph.D, CFCC™, PMP®, CCP, PMI-RMP, MCIOB, PMOC, ACIArb, FICCP Dr Ismail is a project management expert, working in the construction management domain in engineerg, procurement, construction, and management. He domain in the Contracts and delivered tens of projects as a projects manager, PMO manager, and Contracts and claims manager. Dr. Moustafa is a certified forensic claims consultant, contracts and claims manager at ZBenaa-PM development, Gisbou Italconsult JV. Moustafa has delivered different courses in the domain, in Construction Projects, engineering, contracts, claims, dispute resolution, and training management for more than 25 years in Egypt, KSA. Since 2005 he is an active member in a number of professional organizations, such as; PMI, AACE, IRCA, ICCP, CIOB, and reviewer for international certifications exams and research publications.

Prof. Dr. Nassar Amal - Egypt

OUS Faculty

Prof. Dr. Amal graduated from Benha University in Egypt, she is teaching at the same time in few top universities in Africa, Prof. Amal is teaching our students' thesis writing module.