Mission

Faculty

Advisory Council

Advisory Council members have been selected for their individual expertise in different aspects of international studies, and for their institutional responsibilities and experience in specific industries and professions. Their diverse backgrounds have promoted an interdisciplinary orientation of activities and programs.

Chairman:

Robert Werner, President, DUA Consulting USA (formerly, Chairman, Timex India, Ltd.)

 

Representatives of Administrative Departments:

Elizabeth Mahan, Associate Executive Director, Office of International Affairs

 

Representatives of the Business School:

CUrt Hunter, Dean, School of Business

Richard Dino, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, and Associate Professor of Management

Karla Fox, Professor of Business Law

Karen Maru, Associate Professor of Marketing

John F. Veiga, Professor and Chair, Management Department

Mohamed Hussein, Professor and Chair, Accounting Department

Norm Moore, Associate Professor of Finance

Paulo Goes, Associate Professor of OPIM, Gladstein Professor of Technology and Innovation

Suresh K. Nair, Professor, Operations and Information Management

 

Faculty representatives of international studies:

William H. Berentsen, Professor and Chair, Geography/European Studies

Richard Vengroff, Professor and Chair, Political Science

Elizabeth Hanson, Professor of Political Science

 

Representatives of Other Professional Schools:

Ross MacKinnon, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Professor of History

Boris Bravo-Ureta, Executive Director, International Affairs and Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics

Representatives of Other Universities:

Sushil Vachani, Associate Professor of Management, Boston University (MA)

Robert Engle, Vice President Marketing and Sales Operations, Pharmaceutical Division, Bayer Corporation, Assitant Professor of IB, Quinnipiac University (CT)
Anand Shetty, Professor of International Business, Iona College (NY)

Representatives of Local Businesses:

Large High-tech Companies
Prem Gogha, Marketing Director, Northeast Utilities

James Arthurs, President, Gerber Technologies, Inc.

Other Large Companies
Robert Adamsky, Vice President, International Banking, JP Morgan Chase

Richard Hisey, Senior Vice Prsident, Bank of New York

Greg Boyko, Chairman & CEO, Hartford Life International

Small to Medium-size Companies
Paul Pirrotta, Senior Vice President, Manager International Banking, Webster Bank

Don Borod, Attorney-at-Law, Cummings and Lockwood

Dawn S. Sarro, Vice President, Global Trade, Sovereign Bank

Suti Prakash, President, SPS Associates

David Freeman, President & CEO, Lydall Inc

Representatives of Professional Organizations:

Louis J. Auletta, Sr., President, Connecticut District Export Council

James Nicholas, President, Connecticut World Trade Association

Felicity Harley, Executive Director, Hartford World Affairs Council

 

Respresentatives of Government:

Carl Jacobsen, Director, US Department of Commerce, Export Assistance

 

Representative Appointed by the Governor:

Costas Lake, International Director - Europe, Asia, State of CT, Department of Economic and Community Development