Giovanna Bejjani
Giovanna is a Senior Lecturer of the Business Faculty, at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with a demonstrated history of expertise in marketing and business teaching, and leading, working with cross-cultural teams, and innovative curricula. An avid educator and learner, Giovanna is passionate about teaching in a relational way through her dialogic and industry-linked teaching approach that won many awards. Working with her Emirati women students over the years at HCT, has given Giovanna a unique and iconic place among her many women graduates.
Giovanna enjoys her multicultural and multilingual background. A graduate from the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, Giovanna is trilingual, has lived in various countries, and has worked in industries and academia for years. Giovanna‘s cutting-edge research interest is in relational learning in marketing, dialogic teaching, Industry-linked learning, appreciative inquiry, and women empowerment through transformative education.
Giovanna is currently working on her thesis project: "Relational Learning in Marketing Empowering Women Business Graduates,