Ronald Tuninga

Ronald Tuninga is the Dean of AVT Business School and Director of the PhD Program and Professor of International Management at the Open University of the Netherlands.  He is also a Visiting Professor of Management at Hult International Business School. He is and has been an advisor to many international business schools on accreditation, strategy and curriculum design, and was a partner of the Holland Consulting Group.

In the past he was the Director Dean of the Maastricht School of Management, the Associate Dean and Director MBA Programs at Nyenrode Business University (The Netherlands). While at Nyenrode Business University he was responsible the Rochester-Nyenrode Executive MBA program and the part-time MBA program in cooperation with Kellogg School of Management (U.S.A.) and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).

He was an Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA) and has been a visiting professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), the Copenhagen Business School, Odense University (Denmark) and the University of Stellenbosch. His Ph.D. is from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He completed his dissertation in Comparative Marketing in 1987. He also holds an MA in Economics, an MBA in International Business and an MSc in Marketing.

Ronald’s more than 70 research publications have appeared in books and in such journals as the Journal of Macromarketing, Managerial and Decision Economics, the Irish Marketing Review, the Scandinavian International Business Review, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management, Journal of Transnational Management, Bedrijfskunde and refereed Proceedings of International Conferences. He is an editorial board member of various journals. Some examples of his publications are:

Ronald S.J. Tuninga, Management Education for the Poor: The Case of the Maastricht School of Management, in C.K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated 5^th Anniversary Edition, Philadelphia: Wharton School Publishing, 2009, pp. 165-169.

Ronald S.J. Tuninga, W. Jansze, and D. Lahiri, Gaining Competitive Advantage by Technological Innovation in Emerging Countries: Nature or Nurture for Suriname?, Journal of Transnational Management, Vol. 2008, 13 (3), pp. 226-243.

He has lectured extensively both in graduate and undergraduate programs in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. MBA courses he taught are Marketing Management, International Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Services Marketing.

Ronald has been involved in many international projects funded by the Dutch Government, World Bank, European Union, United Nations and other international organizations. From 2007 until 2009 he was the President of the International Management Development Association. In March 2011 he completed a three-year term as the Vice-Chair of the International Management Board (Board of Trustees) of the Association of MBAs (AMBA – United Kingdom). Currently he is the Honorary Chair of the Faculty of Assessors of AMBA. He has chaired and was a member of AMBA accreditation committees to more than 30 international business schools in South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Ronald teaches Marketing, International Management and Business Execution.

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