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<strong>June</strong> 7 – 10, 2011, Baruch College/CUNY, New York, NY, USA<br />

issues management, crisis communications and designing public education campaigns. Lee Ching also<br />

holds a Master of Social Science (Professional Counseling) degree from Swinburne University of<br />

Technology, Australia.<br />

Cheryl Chong is currently a Masters student with the Wee Kim Wee School of <strong>Communication</strong> and<br />

Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.<br />

Agatha M.K. Chung is currently a Master of Philosophy research student in the Department of Chinese<br />

and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include<br />

representations, images and identity of women in Chinese media discourse, and glocalization media<br />

practices in Cultural China. She is a member of the research team at the Internal <strong>Communication</strong><br />

Laboratory.<br />

Elizabeth de Groot is an assistant professor in the Department of Business <strong>Communication</strong> Studies at the<br />

Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests involve the use of English as an<br />

international business language, the use of multimodality in international business texts, and the cultural<br />

factors that may influence the effectiveness of English-language, multimodal communication in<br />

international business settings.<br />

Sam H. DeKay is a Vice President of <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s at BNY Mellon Corporation in New<br />

York City. In addition, he is an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education at St. John's<br />

University, Jamaica, NY. He serves as Section Editor of the "Focus on Business Practices" column of the<br />

Association for Business <strong>Communication</strong> journal Business <strong>Communication</strong> Quarterly. His primary<br />

research interest is the influence of technology upon business communication.<br />

Gideon de Wet obtained his BA in <strong>Communication</strong>, BA in <strong>Communication</strong> Honours and MA in<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> from the University of the Frees State. His Ph.D. on Development <strong>Communication</strong> was<br />

completed in 1991 from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor de Wet is a former Chair<br />

and Professor of <strong>Communication</strong> at the University of Johannesburg and is a member of the advisory board<br />

of <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> <strong>International</strong> (CCI) at Baruch College/CUNY. He is a former<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> Head of Department at the University of Fort Hare as well as the former Director of the<br />

School of <strong>Communication</strong> at the North West University. From 1998-1999 he served in the office of the<br />

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare as specialist assistant. de Wet is also a former President of<br />

the Southern African <strong>Communication</strong> Association (2001-2002). He served for a number of years as Editorin-Chief<br />

of the journal Communicare and he is currently serving on several national and international<br />

editorial boards of academic journals. His current research focuses on corporate communication and issues<br />

management, as well as on communication, development and HIV/Aids. De Wet has published widely in<br />

the field of Development and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>. He is currently the Executive Dean of Research<br />

and Development at the University of Fort Hare<br />

Krishna S. Dhir is the Henry Gund Professor of Management and former Dean of the Campbell School of<br />

Business at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. Dr. Dhir served as visiting professor at the Coventry<br />

University, U.K.; Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and Kuching, Malaysia;<br />

RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia; and the King George Medical College in Bombay, India. Dr.<br />

Dhir has also taught at The Citadel, the Medical University of South Carolina, University of Colorado in<br />

Boulder, and University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Dhir has over 13 years of cumulative<br />

corporate experience, as a Vice President at BioStar Medical Products, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado; an<br />

executive of CIBA-GEIGY AG in Basel, Switzerland; and a pilot plant manager with Borg-Warner<br />

Chemicals' <strong>International</strong> Division in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He is the President of the Decision<br />

Sciences Institute and a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (FORS) in the U.K. He holds a Ph.D.<br />

in Management Science and Administrative Policy from the University of Colorado in Boulder, an M.B.A.<br />

in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii; an M.S. in Chemical Engineering and<br />

Physiology from Michigan State University, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian<br />

Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.<br />

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