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Contact Information:


Carola Dañobeitía
Program Manager, Executive Education
Seminarium Internacional
+562 430 6873



Sharolyn Arnett
Program Coordinator, Executive Education
William Davidson Institute
+1 734 763 5961
 

Faculty

Professor John Branch currently teaches marketing and international business courses at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. As Director of Educational Outreach at the William Davidson Institute, he is responsible for the development and dissemination of pedagogical materials on emerging and transitional markets . He also holds an affiliated research fellowship with the University’s Center for Russian and East European Studies. He began his academic career in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes in France. Since then, he has also served as an adjunct or visiting professor at more than 40 business schools throughout world, including the Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), ESAN (Peru), and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Administration (Thailand). He was also a visiting scholar at Queen Elizabeth House of the University of Oxford (England) and at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University (U.S.A.). Professor Branch has been involved in a variety of European Union and other government-funded development projects, most notably in the republics of the former U.S.S.R., including Kyrghyzstan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and in those of Eastern and Central Europe. He has also participated in management training programmes in numerous international organisations, including British American Tobacco, Anheuser-Busch, British Telecom, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Michelin, and Nestlé. Dr. Branch holds a PhD in marketing from the University of Cambridge in England.