Meet our Team

Our expert practitioners are from the highly acclaimed Birmingham Business School. 

Academic Staff

Dr Essa Bah

Dr Essa Bah

Teaching Fellow in Social Sciences, Business and Law

Dubai Campus

Essa Bah is an international trade economist with a focus on regional trade and integration, and economic development. Essa has a publication in the Journal of International Development and the Conversation, which is part of his developing research pipeline. 

He is very passionate about the process and success of regional integration schemes, and its economic and social implication.

Email
e.bah@bham.ac.uk

Dr Vic Benuyenah

Dr Vic Benuyenah

Assistant Professor

Dubai Campus

Vic Benuyenah is Assistant Professor at the Birmingham Business School. He has a background in organisational psychology and the application of economic theory to HRM/management decisions. Vic is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, MCIPD and a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society of England. He has extensive experience in teaching business courses and the management of higher education ...

Email
v.benuyenah@bham.ac.uk

Dr Senika Dewnarain

Dr Senika Dewnarain

Assistant Professor in Marketing

Dubai Campus

Dr Senika Dewnarain joined the University of Birmingham in Dubai as an Assistant Professor in Marketing, in April 2022. Senika was awarded her PhD in Hospitality Marketing and Management in 2020. Prior to joining the UoBD, she was working as a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Tourism Management at Curtin University, in Mauritius, where she also served as a Corporate Trainer in Marketing and Managi ...

Telephone
+971 (0)97144280698
Email
s.dewnarain@bham.ac.uk

Dr Saneesh Edacherian

Dr Saneesh Edacherian

Assistant Professor - Strategy and International Business
Programme Director - MSc International Business (Dubai)

Dubai Campus

Saneesh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy & International Business. His research explores how strategic leadership groups and entrepreneurial teams shape strategic outcomes such as innovation and internationalization. He uses Multivariate Analysis including Meta-analysis, and Topic Modeling in his research.

His emerging interests lie in extending the scholarly ...

Telephone
+971 44280500
Email
s.edacherian@bham.ac.uk

Nikos Fatouros

Nikos Fatouros

Assistant Professor in Economics

Dubai Campus

Nikos Fatouros is an Assistant Professor in Economics, at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on Economic Growth, Environmental policy, and Natural Disasters. 

 

 

Email
n.fatouros@bham.ac.uk

Dr Yusuf Hartavi

Dr Yusuf Hartavi

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance

Dubai Campus

Yusuf Hartavi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance at the Birmingham Business School.

Email
y.hartavi@bham.ac.uk

Dr UmmeSalma Mujtaba Husein

Dr UmmeSalma Mujtaba Husein

Senior Lecturer in Management
Programme Director - BSc (Hons) Business Management (Dubai)

Dubai Campus

UmmeSalma holds a BSc (Honours) degree in Computing and Information systems, an MS in management and a Doctorate in Business Management. She joined the University of Birmingham as the Programme Director to launch the BSc.(Hons) Business Management in Dubai campus. She is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy. 

She teaches Organisational behaviour and ...

Telephone
+971 (4) 42492327
Email
u.m.husein@bham.ac.uk

Dr Heather Jeffrey

Lecturer in Marketing (Dubai)

Dubai Campus

Heather Jeffrey is a lecturer in marketing with research and teaching interests in Cultural Studies. Heather is a member of the European Commission-funded International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities, and an associate for the non-profit organisation Equality in Tourism. She has published peer reviewed articles on the topic of gender (re)presentations, and her research has ...

Email
h.jeffrey@bham.ac.uk

Fiona Oster

Lecturer in Business Management

Dubai Campus

Fiona Oster is a Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Birmingham Dubai.

Fiona has 13 years of academic experience in both the Irish and German Higher Education systems. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels to AACSB standards and has been an active member in curriculum design and quality assurance teams.

She has considerable expertise in innovation ...

Email
f.oster@bham.ac.uk

Dr Lohrasp Sadri

Dr Lohrasp Sadri

Lecturer in Accounting

Dubai Campus

Dr Lohrasp Sadri is a Lecturer at the School of Accounting at University of Birmingham.

Lohrasp has a number of years’ experience in teaching Accountancy, Economics and Finance at Under-Graduate, Post-Graduate and Professional level. Lohrasp is a competent lecturer, trainer and researcher with relevant industry experience. He is an effective communicator with strong mentoring, ...

Email
l.sadri@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sheikh Selim

Dr Sheikh Selim

Head of Education
Programme Director of BSc Economics and BSc Money, Banking and Finance
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Dubai Campus

Sheikh Selim is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Programme Director for BSc Economics and BSc Money Banking Finance.

He previously led the BSc Business Economics programme in the University of Westminster where he held the position of  Senior Lecturer of Economics. He served as a visiting professor of Political Economy in the New College of Humanities, and as a Lecturer of Economics in ...

Email
s.t.selim@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mahmoud Zakarneh

Dr Mahmoud Zakarneh

Assistant Professor in Marketing (Dubai)

Department of Marketing

Dr Mahmoud Zakarneh is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at Birmingham Business School (BBS), Dubai campus. He joined BBS in 2022, teaching at the Postgraduate Taught level (MSc.). Prior to joining BBS, he was part of the Kent Business School (KBS) teaching team since 2018 and was appointed to a lectureship in 2020. His educational background includes a BSc in Marketing from the University of ...

Email
m.s.a.a.zakarneh@bham.ac.uk

Dr Alun Epps

Programme Director of MSc International Business
Senior Lecturer in Marketing

Email: a.epps@bham.ac.uk

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Julie McDonald            

Programme Director of BSc Accounting and Finance
Lecturer in Accounting 

Email: j.a.mcDonald@bham.ac.uk

Julie McDonald

Professional Services staff

Roshni Barot

Business and Employer Engagement Manager                                                                                             
Email: r.barot@bham.ac.uk