JMIC Case Study Program:

International Advisory Board – Biographies

Professor Larry Dwyer

Larry Dwyer PhD is Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Adjunct Professor Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT), Griffith University, and Honorary Professor of Travel and Tourism Economics in the School of Marketing, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. He publishes widely in the areas of tourism economics, management, policy and planning. With over 200 publications in international journals, books, book chapters, government reports and monographs, Larry is the most cited tourism researcher in Australia over the past decade. He has been awarded numerous research grants to contribute to tourism knowledge.

Professor Dwyer is past President and current Board Chair of the International Academy for Study of Tourism, the world’s peak academic tourism association with a cap of 75 members world- wide. He is past President of the International Association for Tourism Economics, and currently serves on its International Advisory Board. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Council of Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Educators and Researchers (CAUTHE).

Professor Dwyer maintains strong links with the tourism industry at international, national, and regional levels. He receives invitations to give keynote addresses at numerous international tourism conferences worldwide. He also has undertaken an extensive number of consultancies for public and private sector tourism organisations, and for international agencies, including the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and the OECD. He is an appointed member of the Editorial Boards of twenty seven international tourism journals.

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Honorary Professor Markus Grosse Ophoff

Markus Grosse Ophoff is Honorary Professor in Event Management and Sustainability Communication, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. He is also Technical Head and General Manager of the Centre for Environmental Communication in Osnabrück, a centre founded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, which is one of Europe’s largest foundations promoting innovative and exemplary environmental projects.

Professor Grosse Ophoff has lectured in event management and business events since 2003, and has extensive professional experience in the fields of business event management and sustainability communications. He has a PhD in Chemistry from Aachen University. Professor Grosse Ophoff has published extensively on green meetings and environmental sustainability.

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Professor Leo Jago

Leo is Professor in Hospitality and Events and the Co-Director of the Centre for Tourism and Enterprise. He joined the University of Surrey in August 2014 after three years as the inaugural Chief Economist and General Manager of Tourism Research Australia, where he was responsible for the establishment and management of Australia’s national tourism research agenda.

Prior to that, Leo spent 12 years as Professor and Director of university research centres in Australia and the UK, including six years as deputy CEO and Director of Research for Australia’s national Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism, which was a partnership between industry, government and academe.

Leo’s research has focused on events both business events and major events where he has undertaken research on behalf of international agencies such as the UNWTO and the Joint Meetings Industry Council. He was the foundation editor of the International Journal of Festival and Event Management.

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Professor Qiuju (Betty) Luo

Professor Qiuju Luo is the deputy dean of the School of Tourism in Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China. She is also the deputy president of the Zhuhai Convention and Exhibition Association and as such the expert in the Consultative Committee of the people’s government of Haizhu District, Guangzhou. Professor Luo has taught and researched in the areas of exhibitions, conventions, mega events and event tourism for a long time and become of the dominating researchers in this field, and she also cultivated a batch of outstanding graduates in this field. She has presided over several academic projects, including projects supported by the National Social Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Tourism Administration Project Fund and the Guangdong Social Science Fund.

Professor Luo has published over 50 research articles in leading tourism, hospitality and geography journals, and has won the best paper award in the 2014 TOSOK (Tourism Sciences Society of Korea) International Tourism Conference.

Professor Luo has undertaken over 30 consulting projects, including projects for the China Foreign Trade Centre, the people’s government of Haizhu District in Guanghzou, and the Sichuan Bureau of Expo Affairs. She has also participated in more than 10 tourism planning projects commissioned by city and regional governments of famous tourism destinations.

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Professor Paul Verdin

Paul Verdin is the Chair in Strategy & Organization at Solvay Business School (ULB, Brussels) and Professor of Strategy & International Management at K.U.Leuven (Belgium). Previously at IESE Business School (Spain), and “Distinguished Visiting Professor” at INSEAD (France) where he has been on the faculty for almost 20 years, he was Associate Dean at TiasNimbas (Tilburg University, Netherlands) and has been with the Berlin School of Creative Leadership (Germany) since its launch. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School (USA) exploring new ways for value creation in business and government for long-term sustainable growth.

After Master’s Degrees in Law and in Economics, both summa cum laude from K.U.Leuven (Belgium), he obtained the M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, where he was a Teaching Fellow with Nobel Laureate Tom Schelling and former Labor Secretary Bob Reich at the JF Kennedy School. He combined this with work at McKinsey, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, the I.M.F. & the World Bank.  Professor Verdin directs executive seminars and strategy workshops, and consults on strategy processes for a wide range of local and global companies, established multinationals as well as small and medium sized companies, across a variety of industries and particularly in the financial sector. A regular keynote speaker on top management conferences, he also serves as a non-executive board member of companies and non-profit institutions.

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Associate Professor Karin Weber

Karin Weber is an Associate Professor in the School of Hotel & Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining the school in 2001, she taught in marketing and tourism at Monash University, Australia. A native of Germany, Karin received her Bachelor of Business (Hons) degree from Monash University, her M.Sc. degree in Hotel Administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States, and her Ph.D. in services marketing from Griffith University, Australia.

Karin has published on a wide range of subjects in leading international tourism and hospitality journals, and presented her research at international and national conferences. Her two major areas of research interest are services marketing and convention tourism/management. Karin is the lead editor and chapter author of a book on convention tourism that has been published by Haworth Press New York in 2002, and has chaired the first Convention and Expo Summit in Asia in 2003. She is the Co-Editor of the International Journal of Event & Festival Management, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, a Coordinating Editor for the International Journal of Hospitality Management and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, and the International Journal of Event Management Research, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous tourism and hospitality journals.

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