Guest faculty

SIMI collaborates with top, internationally-known faculty and management educators. Other visiting professors, senior executives and CEOs are also involved.

The business dimension

This dimension is organized and developed by a group of top internationally-known faculty members from a variety of Asian, European and North American business schools, who work in close relationship with companies. Many of the professors have worked with SIMI since the launch of the first Executive MBA program in 1993.

James C. Ellert
Emeritus Professor of Finance and Strategy at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

Pekka Hietala
Professor of Finance at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

Roger Hallowell
Professor, HEC, Paris, France 

Paul Matthyssens
Professor of strategic management at Antwerp University, Belgium

Daniel F. Muzyka
RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship and Dean of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Yiorgos Mylonadis
Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, UK 

Tomo Noda
President, Institute for Strategic Leadership, Tokyo, Japan

Poul Schultz
Associate Professor of International Business Strategy and Management at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 

Nikos Tsikriktsis 
Professor of Operations and Service Management at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hans Vermaak
Senior Partner, Twynstra Gudde, Consultants and Managers, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

André Wierdsma
Professor Organizing and Co-Creating; Program Director Advanced Management Program, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands



The leadership dimension

This dimension is organized and developed by a faculty of organization and human resource psychologists with extensive teaching and consultancy experience in leadership training, organizational development, team-building facilitation, and executive selection. The team is headed by Ian Ratcliffe.

Pernille Hippe Brun
Partner, Resonans A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

Connie Ebsen
Partner, Summit Consulting A/S, Hørsholm, Denmark

Mathias Hovind
Partner, Summit Consulting A/S, Hørsholm, Denmark 

Torben H. Nielsen
Owner, Psykologica, Virum, Denmark 

Ian Ratcliffe
Coordinator of the facilitator group, Gentofte, Denmark 

Berit Sander
Consultant, Sander Consulting, Copenhagen, Denmark