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Dutch Professor boosts Durham Business School’s international team

(25 April 2003)

Professor Arjen van Witteloosuijn has been appointed as Professor of Strategy at Durham Business School chairing the school’s research in International Business, Strategy and Marketing.

From 1999 he was Professor of International Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, which is also where he graduated with a BSc in Economics and Psychology, and an MSc in Economics and Management. The University Maastricht awarded him a PhD in Economics in 1990.

Regarded as one of the leading schools in the UK and internationally, Durham Business School offers a full portfolio of business education including MBAs and bespoke programmes to individuals and organisations alike. Professor van Witteloosuijn joins the Business School at an exciting time of growth and investment in research and faculty expansion. He comments:

“It’s very exciting to join a Business School like Durham’s, as I share the School’s ambition to develop into a European top institution in the next five years or so. Given Durham’s large investment in research and staff, I’m convinced that much can be done to build a world-class research group in the area of International Business and Strategy.”

In 1998 he was Visiting Professor at Warwick Business School and from 1996 until 1998 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at University Maastricht. He is founder of the University Maastricht’s Netherlands Institute of Business Organisation and strategy Research (NIBOR) and initiator of the Groningen Academy of international Management and Economics Studies (GAiMES).

Professor Witteloosuijn has published widely in international journals, and has had many chapters in books and articles in Dutch journals. He received the Book of the Year 2000 Prize of the Dutch Society of Management Consultants and the Reader Prize 2000 of the Dutch Association of Consultancy Firms for his published critical analysis of the Dutch “poldermodel”: De anorexia strategie: over de gevolgen van saneren (Amsterdam/Antwerpen: De Arbeiderspers).

For further information, please contact Colette Knowles on + 44 (0) 191 334 5300 email dbs.marketing@durham.ac.uk