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Professor Gurmeet Singh is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation, Head of the School of Business and Management and Director of MBA programme. He teaches Marketing in the MBA programme. He has over 25 years of experience in teaching, research, consultancy, and executive training for industries. Prior to his current role of HOS, he was Associate Dean of Research, Postgraduate Affairs, and Internationalisation for seven years in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Professor Singh is the recipient of 2008, “Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development.” Professor Singh has made a significant research contribution to the discipline of Marketing, Retailing, Information Management, and Consumer behaviour. Professor Singh has contributed more than 120 articles to leading international journals. His current research interests include Marketing, Information Systems, Social Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, food consumption behaviour, Technology adoption, open innovation and service operations management. Professor Singh’s work appears in prestigious A*, A (ABDC) and Q1(SJR) ranked journals in his field such as the International Journal of Information Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Tourism Recreation Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Psychology and Marketing, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Public Management Review, International Journal of Project Management, Telematics and Informatics. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Global Marketing (ABDC ranked Routledge journal). Publications Please click here to view Prof. Singh’s publications on USP Electronic Research Repository. Scopus Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57201766361 Research Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gurmeet-Singh-8 Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hmYP_hoAAAAJ&hl=en Professor Gurmeet Singh _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
He is an accomplished scholar who has published in internationally ranked journals. He joined the University of the South Pacific in 1992 as a Teaching Assistant in Economics and rose up the ranks to become Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the School of Economics. He later became the Dean of the College of Business, Hospitality and Tourism Studies at Fiji National University. Dr. Reddy has also served as the Chairperson of the Fiji Competition and Consumer Commission and as a Director of the Reserve Bank of Fiji’s Board. In 2014, he resigned from academia and contested in the national election and won a seat in Parliament. He was appointed as Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts. In July 2017, he resigned from Cabinet but was later reappointed as Minister for Waterways and Environment. In 2018, he contested in the general elections again and won and was appointed as Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development, Waterways and Environment.
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Dr. Shavneet Sharma is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator at the Graduate School of Business at the University of the South Pacific. He teaches Marketing in the MBA programme. Dr Sharma received the B.Com. Degree in Accounting and Management and the M.Com. Degree in 2015 and 2018, respectively, from the University of the South Pacific. He went on to obtain his PhD degree in marketing from the same university in 2021. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) from USA. Dr Sharma was awarded the Gold Medal and Vice-Chancellor and President’s Prize for being the most outstanding graduate with a Management and Public Administration Major. From January 2015 to February 2016, he was a Graduate Accountant with the Audit Division, KPMG. In 2016, he joined the University of the South Pacific as a Teaching Assistant. In 2021, he was appointed as an Assistance Lecturer at the School of Business and Administration before being appointed as a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business in 2022. Dr Sharma has published more than 25 journals article and seven book chapters articles in leading international journals such as the International Journal of Consumer Studies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Information Management, Psychology & Marketing, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Internet Commerce, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, The TQM Journal, British Food Journal, among others. His research interests are in digital and social media marketing, consumer behaviour, information systems, artificial intelligence, and online Gaming Behavior RESEARCH LINKS ORCID Profile Dr Shavneet Sharma |
Dr. Mahendra Reddy is a Senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Business. Dr. Reddy obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the University of the South Pacific in 1989. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hawaii where he obtained his Master’s degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural and Resource Economics in 1998.