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

Bahtiar Mohamad (BBA, MSc) is a Ph.D. student at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, West<br />

London. His qualifications are in Business Administration and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>, which all<br />

combine to support his hybrid profession linking communication with management. In recent years, his<br />

publication and research interests have focused on corporate communication and public relations. He is<br />

currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London under the guidance of<br />

Professor T. C. Melewar (Professor of Marketing and Strategy) and Professor Ruth Simpson (Professor of<br />

Management).<br />

Catherine Nickerson is an Associate Professor of Business <strong>Communication</strong> in the College of Business<br />

Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She has held senior positions in India and in the<br />

Netherlands, and she has also lived and worked in the United States and the United Kingdom. She holds<br />

degrees from the Universities of Durham (BA) and Birmingham (MA) in the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D.<br />

from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Dr. Nickerson's work has been published<br />

widely and she has given numerous international conference papers and guest lectures at institutions around<br />

the world. Her most recent book - Business Discourse - was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2007 and<br />

won the Association for Business <strong>Communication</strong>’s Distinguished Publication Award. Dr. Nickerson’s<br />

current research interests include the use of English as an international language in business contexts and<br />

the communication of <strong>Corporate</strong> Social Responsibility.<br />

Martin Nielsen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Centre for <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>, Aarhus<br />

University. He holds an MA in Translation and Interpretation Studies (German). Among his research<br />

interests are cross-cultural marketing communication, corporate communication, intercultural advertising,<br />

advertising language, and organizational communication. He teaches German, Business and <strong>Corporate</strong><br />

<strong>Communication</strong> at the undergraduate and graduate levels in different study programs. Dr. Nielsen is one of<br />

the founding members of EUCO (European Cultures in Business and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>), a<br />

representative in LIBRI (Linguists in Business Research Initiative), and a member of the Academic Council<br />

at the Aarhus School of Business. He performs occasional translation tasks and oral communication<br />

courses.<br />

Alexandre Oliveira has a Masters degree in Business Administration from IBMEC Business School, Rio<br />

de Janeiro, Brazil and an MBA in Marketing from the same school. He graduated in Business<br />

Administration from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has extensive professional experience in<br />

systems and management models, project management, business processes management and organizational<br />

design. He is responsible for the implementation of the Project Management Office (PMO) in the <strong>Corporate</strong><br />

<strong>Communication</strong>s department of Petrobras, for coordinating the development of the Value Chain and the<br />

map of communication processes, such as: branding, publicity, advertising, social responsibility,<br />

sponsorship, press relations and relationship, among others. He is also the head of the team supporting the<br />

organizational restructuring of the <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s department of Petrobras and implementing<br />

management practices, adjustment, measurement and evaluation processes of <strong>Communication</strong>s.<br />

Kathryn O’Neill, Ph.D., is Senior Consultant, Talent Management, at RockTenn, one of North America's<br />

leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard, packaging and merchandising displays with $3<br />

billion in sales. She earned a B.A. from Texas Tech University, and M.A and Ph.D.,<br />

<strong>Communication</strong>s/Human Resource Development, from Georgia State University. O’Neill has been<br />

involved with workplace learning in multiple industry settings since 1978, and has taught undergraduate<br />

and graduate communication skills at the university level.<br />

Augustine Pang (Ph.D., Missouri, 2006) is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Division of<br />

Public and Promotional <strong>Communication</strong>, Wee Kim Wee School of <strong>Communication</strong> and Information,<br />

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Pang’s research interests include crisis management and<br />

communication, image management and repair, media management, public relations, and journalism.<br />

Besides contributing book chapters to leading communication textbooks like the Handbook of Crisis<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> (2010, Wiley-Blackwell) and Handbook of Public Relations (2010, Sage), his works have<br />

appeared in peer-reviewed journals like <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s: An <strong>International</strong> Journal, Public<br />

Relations Review, Public Relations Journal, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Journal of<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> Management, Journal of <strong>International</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>, Asia Pacific Media Educator,<br />

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