Academic Planning, CDC and Substantive Changes

Dr. Ahmad Jaffar is an Associate Professor of Innovation at the Abu Dhabi School of Management. With 18 years of teaching in innovation management, he served as Program Chair for 5 years and taught in different universities in United Arab Emirates and University of Wales, College Newport, UK. Dr. Jaffar was awarded scholarships for his PhD and MSc. He received the Education Leadership Award by World Education Congress and Best Oral Presentation in International Conference Business Education, Engineering & Science for his research on commuters’ behavior.

Dr. Jaffar key areas of research expertise includes business process modeling, cognitive psychology in human interpretation of representation, and human-computer interaction, specifically in implied symbolic representation. His current focus optimizes positive psychology.

 

Dr. Rommel Sergio is a Professor of Management and the MSLOD Program Director at ADSM. Before teaching at ADSM, he taught courses at the Canadian University Dubai, American University in the Emirates, and De La Salle University, Philippines. He has served various institutions as HR and Organizational Development Consultant in the UAE and abroad.

Dr. Sergio has published and co-authored several academic research papers and has presented and garnered best paper awards from several international academic conferences including Harvard University. He was bestowed an Outstanding International Educator award by the United Federation of Filipino-American Educators (Washington DC, USA), one of the Top 50 Global Educators Award conferred by the Oxford Journal: International Journal of Business and Economics (Cambridge University, UK), and Outstanding Global Research Leader by International Association of Scholarly Publishers, Editors and Reviewers (Hong Kong).