Principal Lecturer Accounting, Finance and Informatics.

Biography

John Forgan, a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of teaching experience, is a programme director on the Kingston MBA at Kingston with teaching experience in Russia, the Netherlands and the United States of America. In addition to his teaching commitments, he has extensive experience as a professional accountant having spent over 25 years in the accounting profession including 15 as a partner in an accountancy practice.Currently he is the Director of Technical Services for a medium-sized accountancy practice. John has been a faculty member at Kingston Business School since 1989.

Expertise

John's current main research and consultancy interests are the financial reporting of government departments under the Resource Accounting and Budgeting initiative of 2001.Course development and delivery of finance Training (Resource Accounting and Budgeting RAB) to The Department of Environment Transport and the Regions.Developing the use of Information Technology in the teaching and assessment of financial accounting students (project leader)Member of the Schools Financial Reporting Response Group, considering and responding to draft accounting standards and discussion papers issued by the professional accounting bodies.xpertise

Research Interest

Taxation, Subject Leader Financial Accounting, Subject Leader Management Accounting, Subject Leader Auditing

Director of General Management Postgraduate Programmes & Executive.

Education Faculty Management.

Expertise

Personal and Career Development, Leadership Training, Design and Delivery of Postgraduate Management Programs.

Teaches: HR and Organizational Behavior, Career Development, Leadership and Management Development. Chartered Fellow of CIPD

Research Interest & Consultancy

Leadership, Leadership and Management Development, Personal and Career Development

Associate Professor Accounting, Finance and Informatics.

Biography

Vladlena Benson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics, Kingston University. Having completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas.Dr Benson has served as a Course Director for the BSc International Business, Business Administration( including provision in India) and most recently the MA Management programmes. She publishes extensively in such journals as International Journal of Human -Computer Studies, Information Technology and People, Computers in Human Behavior, British Journal of Educational Technology, International Journal of e-Business and others. She teaches Information Management Strategy to MBA students in the UK and Russia, and is involved on a number of European programmes, including the International MBA programme at France and a Doctorate Programme in Italy.

Expertise

Dr Benson's research focuses on personal information privacy online, trust formation, social networking behaviour and social commerce.

Research Interest

Vladlena completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas in the area of Internet databases, which influenced her research interest in the Internet technology and its applications in various areas of human activity. Information Systems Strategy, IT Governance and Agile Methods,Social Networking Technologies.Digital Business Models

Kingston MBA Course Director

Strategy, Marketing and Innovation

Biography

Kent was a researcher at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University. He is a senior lecturer Department of Stratety, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Kingston University. He teaches International Business Environment, Strategy and Strategic Decision making to the MBA and EMBA students at Kingston/RANEPA program.

He is interested in studying the organisational transformations that public/voluntary sector organisations undergo when they adopt market-based changes. In particular how they deal with identity changes that they have to experience and how they deal with developing strategic options that would suit their transformation. He has written papers on Quasi-Privatisation & Corporate Governance.

Expertise

Quasi-Privatisation & Corporate Governance, Strategy and changes 

Research Interest(s)

Public Sector organisational change. Privatisation and deregulation.

Biography

Research into the management development needs of senior executives across Europe, consultant on the performance appraisal scheme, Investors in People Co-ordinator for Faculty of Business, Kingston University, Continuing Professional Development for the Independent Professional: research project funded by Kingston Business School. Prior to her academic career, Deborah worked in HRM roles in a number of organizations. Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Expertise

Personal and Professional Development: Personal audit Identifying development needs, Setting self-development objectives, Constructing the development plan, Team performance, Group decision making.

Research Interest

The Critical Reflection Model, Individual performance and development, practical business skills.

Principal Lecturer and Course Director Leadership, HRM and Organisation.

Biography

Jelena holds an award winning PhD from Cranfield University. Jelena is Director of the Leadership and Management program offered through the SWAN network (South West Alliance Network), which brings together Kingston Business School, Royal Holloway, and St. Georges, University of London.

She has also conducted research and consultancy for Cranfield University School of Management, CIPD, Organization Resources Counselors (ORC) Inc., the Guardian and BT. Jelena is a reviewer for several academic journals, and is actively involved in academic networking with the universities in the UK, US, Brazil, Germany, and Serbia.

Expertise

Strategic staffing of international joint ventures, role of board directors of international joint ventures, job  satisfaction.

Jelena has more than 10 years experience in teaching management and leadership.

Research Interest

Jelena's research interests are in organizational behavior and international management and governance areas.

Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Biography

Ben is a Lecturer at Kingston University, Visiting Lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy (Moscow) and a Director at the Centre for High-Performance; the leading authority on creating and sustaining high-performing organisations. He delivers consultancy, teaches on MBA and executive education programmes and supports research activities across a high-performing portfolio including NASA. Ben is passionate about teaching and learning, and was awarded 'Lecturer of the Year' in 2014 and 2015.

Expertise

Supply Chain, Operations of companies, six sigma

Research Interest

Operations and Supply chain Management

Associate Professor

Strategy, Marketing and Innovation

Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management,Strategy, Marketing and Innovation.

Biography

Konstantinos Pitsakis is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, with a specialization in academic entrepreneurship (university spinoffs) and institutional & diffusion theories. He was previously Asst. Professor of organization studies and Fellow at the Center for Innovation Research (CiR) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, where he taught strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation and organization theory. Konstantinos obtained his PhD in Management from Cass Business School, City University London. Prior to academia, he worked as Research Manager at the Financial Times Group and as Business Intelligence Manager at Winmark Ltd, both in London. Konstantinos has been Course Director for the MSc in International Business Management (Jan. start) at Kingston University since 2014.

Expertise

Strategic Decision making, sociology of organization

Research Interest

Academic entrepreneurship, technology transfer, university spinoffs; Institutional theory, diffusion theory, organizational reputation, population ecology, the sociology of organizations; Panel data, survival analysis.

Principal Lecturer.

Accounting, Finance and Informatics.

Biography

George joined Kingston University in 2003 from Essex University. Prior to that, he was a lecturer at Bristol University and the Cass Business School. He had also an appointment as Visiting Professor at the Erasmus School of Business in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
George has a degree in mathematics and a degree in accounting and finance. He received his PhD at the Cass Business School in the area of corporate finance.

Expertise

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments; corporate restructuring; corporate governance; banking and finance.

Research Interest(s)

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments; corporate restructuring; corporate governance; banking and finance.

Senior Lecturer - Management

Biography

Following a research fellowship at the faculty of economics and administration (Catholic University of Chile), Miguel was appointed Lecturer in the school of psychology (same university) where he taught qualitative methods and organisational psychology. There he conducted several research and consultancy projects with pharmaceutical companies,NGOs and educational organisations. He joined Kingston University in 2003.

Research Interest

Miguel is a member of the organisational research group at the Institute of Social Psychology (LSE). Miguel's principal research interests are: radical and alternative forms of organising; postmodern and critical organisation theory; literary fiction and storytelling; art and management; skateboarding architecture and free running; management change and globalisation effects in Latin America. Current research projects include (i) the Argentinean Organisational Change Experience: this project looks at new forms ofrganising that are emerging in Argentina as a result of the country's economic collapse in 2001; and (ii) Changing Narratives of Corporate Building Architecture for the XXIst Century (Dr Maria Daskalaki): this on-going project in Europe and Latin America seeks to provide subversive narratives for the way organisational actors experience working (architectural) space.

Accounting, Finance and Informatics

Biography

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics at Kingston Business School, London, UK. She received a BSc in Mathematics and Management from King’s College London and an MSc in Information Technology at University College London, before completing a PhD sponsored by BT in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. She lecture on a number of undergraduate quantitative courses, including Business Information Analysis and Business Data Analysis. At postgraduate level she deliver a Business Forecasting and Modelling elective to MBA students both in the UK and Moscow, a Business Forecasting module to students on the MSc in Business and Economic Forecasting and an Information Management module for students on the Diploma in Management Studies.

Expertise

Study habits and behaviour, learning theory, Rasch analysis, advanced statistical analysis, neural networks, yield management, control theory, wireless communication networks

Research Interest

Currently, she is looking into innovative approaches developing measuring scales for evaluation and modelling students' study habit behaviour by taking into account recent developments in neuroscience. She is also looking at the potential of semi-qualitative modelling approaches such as neural networks for building classifiers and modelling human decision making.

Executive Director of International Development and Public Policy Alliance (IDPPA) and

Associate Director of Master of Global Public Policy (MGPP) Program at the School of Public Policy(RANEPA)

Biography

Alexey has over 20 years of research and consulting experience in both the public and private sectors. In 1996-2000, he was a senior economist at the Central Bank of Russia. In the management consultancy sector, he has been supervising implementation of complex educational programs, including international partnerships and joint research by leading universities from Russia, U.S., China, and Eastern Europe.  He currently supervises several public policy programs at RANEPA and teaches courses on international business environment, decision-making, organizational change management, and business research methodology.

Expertise

International business environment and Strategy

Research Interest

Business and Financial Environment , change management and strategic decision making

• Senior Lecturer and Director for Kingston/RANE MBA programme
• Director, MSc. Project Management (RANEPA)

Biography

Mitali has more than 20 years of work experience in marketing with different International companies. She was head of the Research and Marketing Department for The British Council. She was the Marketing and Communication Director for TMI (UK Consultancy Company). Mitali runs her own consultancy company providing services in the area of marketing, strategy and communication.

Mitali teaches Marketing Management /Marketing in the digital world/SMM (to MBA students), RANEPA/Kingston University (UK). She also teaches International and Strategic Marketing in International Master’s programme. She conducts lecture on Research Methodology and Management Consultancy.

Expertise

Market Research, Branding , Social Media, Management Consultancy

Research Interest

Marketing & Communications strategy; Brand Management ; Digital Marketing, CSR, Social Media Marketing, Market Research, Relationship Marketing, International Marketing, Strategic Management Consultancy

Senior Lecturer and Director for Kingston/RANE EMBA programme

Biography

Elena is an expert in communications & strategy, lecturer in MBA/EMBA programmes, business trainer & couch. 

She is a former media top-manager, now owner of her own company providing communications and strategy consultancy to leading Russian and international companies. Among her clients banks, metallurgy and natural resources giants, media houses. She teaches Strategic Decision Making, Strategy Execution & Implementation, Global Business, Business Communications.

Expertise

Communication skills, strategic decision making, business communication

Research Interest(s)

Strategy in business and public services

• Преподаватель, бизнес тренер, карьерный и бизнес коуч, консультант.
• Направления текущей практики:

1. Развитие персонального бренда
2. Личное и Профессиональное развитие
3. Развитие карьеры
4. Управление человеческим капиталом

• Разработка, внедрение, администрирование программ обучения в Бизнес школах и корпоративных университетах.
• Преподаватель курсов: «Личное и персональное развитие», Career Development Coaching, Personal Brand Development Lab, «Управление человеческим капиталом организации» на программах E/MBA, CIPD IHRM Masters Kingston University, London-РАНХиГС, Международной англоязычной магистратуры РАНХиГС
• Коучинг: бизнес коучинг, карьерный коучинг на программах E/MBA, CIPD IHRM Masters, частная практика
• Тренинги: открытые, корпоративные
• Внешний консультант на проектах по построению систем обучения персонала в крупных международных компаниях
• Автор ряда практикумов для менеджеров в области управления персоналом 

Образование

Leadership University, USA Certified Business Coach

Kingston University Business School, ISES Masters, диплом с отличием

Академия народного хозяйства при Правительстве РФ, диплом MBA «Стратегический менеджмент»

Московский государственный институт международных отношений (Университет), факультет «Международные экономические отношения», диплом с отличием

Московский государственный лингвистический университет (ранее ИнЯз им. Мориса Тореза), диплом