Michael R. Czinkota

Michael R. Czinkota is a professor of marketing and international business in the Graduate School and the School of Business Administration at Georgetown University. He has also held professorial appointments at universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

Professor Czinkota served under President Reagan as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and he has also served at the Head of the U.S. Delegation to the OECD Industry Committee and as Senior Trade Advisor for Export Controls.

Professor Czinkota's background also includes many years of private industry consulting experience in the United States and abroad, including AT&T, IBM, GE, and Nestle. He has also held appointments on several corporate boards.

Professor Czinkota holds and MBA in international business and a Ph.D. in logistics from The Ohio State University.

Masaaki Kotabe

Masaaki Kotabe is the Washburn Chair of International Business and Marketing and Director of Research at the Institute of Global Management Studies at Temple University. He also serves as the Vice President of the Academy of International Business.

Dr. Kotabe lectures regularly at various business schools around the world, including Germany, Finland, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, and Turkey. He is also an active consultant for AT&T, NEC, Philips, Sony, and Ito-Yokado (parent company of 7-Eleven stores).

Recently, he was ranked as the most contributing international business researcher in the world in the last ten years.