Prof. Dr. M S S El Namaki

Prof. Dr. M S S El Namaki
President of the Drucker Society for Gulf States (DSGS)
Dean of the Victoria University of Switzerland

Past founder and Dean of the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Maastricht, The Netherlands (1984-2002)

Education

Experience

Developed and introduced management degree programs (MBA, EMBA, DBA and Ph D) at institutions in the Netherlands, China, Egypt, Brazil, Poland, Canada and Indonesia, among others.
Taught globally at recognized institutions (Maastricht), Kellog (Chicago), Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Beijing University (Beijing), AIT (Bangkok), Helsinki School of Economics (Helsinki), Sheffield University (Sheffield), Trisakti University (Jakarta) and many others.
Assumed executive positions within Philips (Eindhoven), McKinsey (London and Dar es Salaam) and Time Inc (Amsterdam).

Consulted and delivered executive seminars on a wide scale and his clients included Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Philips and Pepsi as well as landmark national corporations such as China Pacific Insurance Corporation CPIC (Shanghai), Eastern Tobacco (Egypt) and Abraaj (United Arab Emirates).
Performed consultancy missions for the European Union (EU), The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the International Trade Center (ITC) among others. Countries covered in these missions included, among others, Egypt, Syria, Qatar, China, Thailand and Kazakhstan.

Skills

Teaches and consults on strategic thinking. Entrepreneurship and international business
Published 6 books and more than 100 articles. Some of his articles on Vision and Propensity to Enterprise are ‘classic’ teaching material in MBA programs worldwide.
His book on Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Arab Countries (Macmillan) was published in March 2008.