Pervez Ghauri

Pervez Ghauri completed his PhD at Uppsala University Sweden, where he also taught for several years. He received an Honorary Doctor of Economics degree from Turku School of Economics and Management (Finland) in 2005. He also held leadership positions at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), Norwegian School of Management (Norway), and University of Groningen (Netherlands). He served as a visiting professor at Michigan State University (USA), University of International Business and Economics (China), Robert Schuman University (France), Henrick-Heine University (Germany), Maastricht University (Netherlands), Vaasa University (Finland) and Lund University (Sweden).

Professor Ghauri's principal research areas are market driving strategies, international business, international marketing and international business negotiations. He has published twenty two books including: The Internationalization of the Firm (with Peter Buckley), International Marketing (with Cateora), Managing Opportunity Development in Business Networks (with Johanson and Hadjikhani), International Business Negotiations (with Usunier), Research Methods in Business Studies (with Gronhaug) and Doing Business in Emerging Markets (with Cavusgil). In addition he is editor for the book series on International Business and Management published by Elsevier Science. He is also author of more than 60 journal articles in journals such as: Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Industrial Marketing Management, International Marketing Review and European Journal of Marketing.

Professor Ghauri is elected Vice President of Academy of International Business (AIB Worldwide), member of the board for European International Business Academy (EIBA), Fellow for EIBA and the founding editor of International Business Review, an ISI journal that is also official journal of EIBA. He has served on the board of Academy of International Business (AIB UK) and as chair for international business track for the British Academy of Management (BAM). He has served as conference Chair for a number of conferences including: AIB UK, AMS Biannual, CIMaR and IMP. He also serves as Editor for Europe for the Journal of World Business. Professor Ghauri has served as a consultant to a number of organisations such as: Airbus Industries, Ericsson, Philips, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands and Norwegian Export Council. Professor Ghauri is often consulted by national media to comment on current affairs and has appeared on BBC, Sky News, and ITV television as well as BBC radio 4.