Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, PhD, Diplom-Betriebswirt

Associate Professor Visiting Fellow of Leeds Metropolitan University
Intercollege Cyprus
A- 6841 Mäder
Tel: 0043- 552364069

As a German academic (Diplom-Betriebswirt) and after a management position in banking, Rudi joined the department of retailing and marketing of the Manchester Metropolitan University as a research assistant and sponsored PhD student. He completed his PhD in 1997 and was as lecturer (part-time) at MMU.

From July 1997 to December 1998, he worked in Budapest/Hungary first as a course director marketing for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and then as an assistant professor in Marketing at the International Management Centre Budapest/Weather head University and as a consultant for the business school.

Rudi joined the University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein in 2000 as a Hochschullehrer/Professor working first as academic director Private Banking in the Institute of Finance and then as academic director international management pgd/mba in the Institute of Entrepreneurship. He is now associate professor at Intercollege Cyprus.

Rudi has been a member of CIRCLE from its very outset. He published on EU supported and other research conferences and in international journals and edited three books. He is head of the editorial board of the World Journal of Management & Economics and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Management Cases, the Euro Mediterranean Journal of Business and the World Journal of Business Administration