Curtin names new business faculty dean
CURTIN University Malaysia (Curtin Malaysia) has appointed Prof Andreas H Zins as its Faculty of Business dean.
He brings some 30 years’ experience in higher education to the position with vast experience lecturing entrepreneurship, marketing, tourism management and marketing, modelling of consumer and travel behaviour, and marketing research.
Curtin Malaysia pro vice-chancellor, president and chief executive Prof Simon Leunig said the new dean is a highly respected academic and experienced leader in the business sector.
“His extensive and successful European and international leadership and research experience in business-related academic areas
Prof Zins now heads Curtin Malaysia’s Faculty of Business.
will no doubt help him as the new dean of our Faculty of Business, in continuing its tradition of excellence and in expanding our international reach,” he added.
Prof Zins is looking forward to leading the faculty.
“Despite the challenges of an increasingly competitive and global market, and the economic hardship brought about by the global pandemic, I am buoyed by the tremendous progress the faculty has made in recent years in terms of advances in learning and teaching, programme accreditation and research,” he said.
Prior to this appointment, Prof Zins was dean of a dual-degree programme and full professor of tourism management at Modul School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Nanjing (affiliated to Nanjing Tech University Pujiang Institute), adjunct full professor of tourism management at Modul University Vienna, and adjunct associate professor of marketing at University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.
He has also organised numerous international university summer schools in Vietnam, Thailand, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria.
His research interests include tourism behaviour, marketing research, destination image, social impacts, tourism spending, theme parks, cultural and other leisure attractions.
Prof Zins has published, edited and written a total of 279 books, chapters, scientific journal articles, conference presentations, and research reports.
From 2013 to 2016, he served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research.