From Abraham Jonah, Managing Editor, Middle East Operations
The recently concluded 2018 International Conference on Business and Economics (ICBE2018) and the 14th International Conference of Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA) and Allied Academies held in June 25-27, 2018, Seoul, South Korea was one of such platforms where researchers whose abstracts were accepted spoke presented on different topics.
As conferences and joint programmes run across places for the cross-pollination of research, results and further knowledge exploration, top scholars who have garnered wealth of academic ‘know-how’ are being appreciated for their contributions to the scholarly community.
It was under this umbrella that the Award of Excellence was presented to Prof. Mohan Lal Agarwal, Director of Continuing Education and Community Engagement, MENA College of Management, Dubai, by the organizing committee of ICBE2018 and KODISA.
The special Award for Excellence was presented to him in recognition of his exceptional academic and professional achievements, high standards of personal and professional integrity, excellence in service, high standards of accountability and his exceptional quality of performance and commitment to success of the conference.
Prof. Mohan is a US Fulbright Fellow to Massachusetts Boston, USA, European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Fellow to Brussels and Paris and British Council Fellow twice to Glasgow and Leicester UK. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, (FCIM) London and a member of the American Marketing Association USA.
Prior to this, Dr. Mohan served as the Professor and Director at IHC Dubai- a venture of the Gems Education. He is an award winning Professor, Dean and Chair of departments of business, management and service marketing, E-com, logistics and supply chain management at leading business schools of Dubai. He has also been a faculty to the University of Queensland Australia, Bond University Australia; California Polytechnic State University USA, Bentley College Boston and University of Delaware USA. His global teaching assignment also include University of Manitoba, Canada, American University in Mexico, Essex Business School Paris and University of Southern Denmark, Escotel Chair Professor of Marketing at IIM Lucknow India, Professor at XLRI Jamshedpur India and Founder Director of Jaypee Business School, India.
Mohan is widely published in logistics, e-commerce, services marketing and customer relationship management in national, regional and international journals, and a popular keynote speaker and contributor at the international conferences and forums.
He is an active corporate trainer with such clients as Bosch India, China & Japan, Emirates NBD Bank, Dubai Ambulance and Healthcare, Landmark UAE; Hatton National Bank Sri Lanka, Tata group, Birla group, Reliance groups India ranging over eighty client organizations in India, USA, China, Canada, Singapore, India and UAE. The World Education Forum recognized him as the Best Professor of Marketing in Asia.