FACULTY BIO

Dr. Minwir Al-Shammari is a Professor of Management and former dean in the College of Business Administration at the University of Bahrain. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration (Industrial Management) from the University of Glasgow (UK., 1990) and an M.S degree in Industrial Management from the University of Central Missouri (USA, 1986). He has over 30 years of experience in teaching, research, training, and consultancy in the areas of operations management, knowledge management, supply chain management, business process re-engineering, strategic management, management information systems, organization theory, organizational change and development, project management, spreadsheet modeling, management science, and research methodology. He was awarded the Best Young Arab Researcher's Prize in Administrative Sciences in 1995. He served as an Expert on Mission to the UN on Knowledge Management for the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) in 2003. He has published seven international books and more than 60 research papers in international refereed journals and served as an editorial and review board member for several international journals. He has been an editorial and review board member for several refereed international journals and a member of several national, regional, and international professional associations. He served as supervisor, internal examiner, and external examiner for many graduate theses, conference chair, track chair, and reviewer in many local, regional, and international conferences.