GWSB Welcomes New Professors for 2019-2020 Academic Year

Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Tourism Studies

Linda's research interests include tourism taxation — especially avoidance and evasion — public sector governance at tourism destinations, and tourism policy. In addition to academic articles addressing these issues, in 2015 she published a book on tourism, tax evasion, and public sector governance entitled "Sun & Sea Tourism: Fantasy and Finance of the All-Inclusive Industry" that highlights the complex financial structures designed to withhold revenues from the very destinations where global tourism enterprises create value and where these revenues are needed to promote development and sustainability. She has a Ph.D. in Management with a major in Accounting and Tourism, and holds a Masters of International Business from the University of Paris IX Dauphine, France.

Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Riddha's research interests focus on examining interactions between information intermediaries and a firm’s financial disclosure and economic choices, with a particular interest in the role of credit rating agencies. He uses empirical archival methodologies to answer key questions that broaden our understanding the role played by information intermediaries in a firm’s decision-making process. His goal as a professor is to develop students’ understanding of accounting at an intuitive level, using real world examples, and also engage students in conversation in class.

Visiting Assistant Professor of International Business

Simon's specialty is the management of cross-cultural communications and overcoming the obstacles that inevitably arise in international business transactions. His goal is to equip students with analytical skills they can use to solve international business problems. His classes use a mix of workshops, group exercises, case analysis, lecture, and term projects to help students express themselves in class and through their assignments.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management

Before joining GWU, Wei was a lecturer at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and a scientist at Philips Research in Europe. Wei holds a doctoral degree in medicine (specializing in healthcare analytics) from VU University Amsterdam and received clinical training from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Among other things, he is interested in the use and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare domain.

Teaching Assistant Professor of International Business

Laura's teaching focuses on understanding international business context, global business and international strategy. Her courses include a strong environmental and social sustainability emphasis, and her teaching philosophy includes a deep commitment to active learning and to the integration of liberal arts thinking into the business curriculum.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing

As an outcomes-driven marketing executive, Johan developed experience translating science and technology into marketing strategies and plans that drive successful outcomes in the biotechnology, health and wellness, life science, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. One of his goals is to translate real-world experience into stimulating classroom learning to prime the next generation of marketers.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences

Shraddha received her doctorate from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) in Mumbai, India, in 2015, specializing in supply chain performance measurement. Her teaching and research interests include operations management, supply chain management, and data and programming for analytics. Her research work is inclined towards understanding the impact of emerging technologies on supply chain performance. Much of her research use large-scale field data to identify causal relationships that generate new scholarly insights regarding the connections between operational factors, decision-making, and performance.

Visiting Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Bumsoo received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics from the London School of Economics, his M.S. in Statistics from the George Washington University, and his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the GW School of Business. His dissertation topic was Essays in Dynamic Bayesian Models in Marketing. He has also served as an associate professor of business analytics at the Sogang University School of Business in Seoul, South Korea.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy

Lisa's research interests focus on ethical decision making and stakeholder responsiveness to corporate social responsibility. She currently teaches Business Ethics and the Legal Environment and Markets and Politics. Her goals for the classroom are to increase critical thinking, to improve problem solving techniques, and to make better decisions through learning the core concepts of business.

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of International Business

Neli's research interests lie at the intersection of non-market strategy, institutional change and disruptive technology. Her doctoral dissertation, distinguished with the “Buckley & Casson” Best Dissertation Award presented by the Academy of International Business, pertains to technology disruption and multinationals’ non-market strategies in emerging markets. Loewenthal’s research is relevant to designing public policy, strategy, and international business undergraduate and graduate courses.

Visiting Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Michael received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (operations and management science) from the University of Minnesota. He received his BSC in engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, and his MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel-Aviv University. Prior to his new appointment this fall, Michael previously served as an adjunct professor at GWSB. Both his teaching and research expertise focus on global operations management, national culture, innovation and quality management.

Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences

Zhengling's general research interests are data science, statistical machine learning, and related non-convex optimization. Most of his research applications are focused on improving data-driven individualized decision making. Recently he has started to work on reinforcement learning problems.

Teaching Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Bill Stromsem is a CPA and attorney who teaches tax courses in the Department of Accountancy. He joined the regular faculty after two years as a visiting faculty member, and after nearly 30 years as adjunct faculty member while he worked as director of taxes at the American Institute of CPAs. At the AICPA, Bill lobbied tax legislation and regulations and provided tax practice guidance to practitioners. Before that, he was with the Arthur Andersen accounting firm. Bill organized the low-income taxpayer clinic at GW and is faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting honorary society. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard after graduating from college, driving a high-endurance weather cutter on the North Atlantic and working in Washington on marine environmental protection matters. He is married and has four daughters and eight grandchildren.

Assistant Professor of International Business

Ariel joins GWSB as an assistant professor of international business in the area of international economics. He specializes in the efficiency and distributional implications of trade and financial globalization, with a focus on both developing and developed countries. Within a context of a distorted market, his interests are on the welfare impacts of globalization taking into consideration the effects on firm efficiency, the allocation of production across firms, and the relative impact across labor and capital returns. He has taught courses on globalization, with a focus on the implications of current events and policy developments.