jikyeong kang

Jikyeong Kang, PhD

President and Dean
MVP Chair in Marketing

EXPERTISE

Strategic Brand Management, Market Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Branding; Services Marketing, Customer Insights

Jikyeong Kang, PhD

President and Dean
MVP Chair in Marketing

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 

  • 1991 PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
  • 1987 MSc, Colorado State University, USA
  • 1984 BSc (summa cum laude), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL, MANCHESTER, UK

  • 2015 –             Honorary Professor of Marketing
  • 2010 – 2014   Director of the DBA Programme
  • 2005 – 2009   Director of KEPCO Executive Management Programme
  • 2005 – 2007   Director of MBA Programmes
  • 2004 – 2005   Director of Executive MBA Programme
  • 2002 – 2007   Director of the Postgraduate Centre
  • 2001 – 2005   Director of the Full-Time MBA Programme

VISITING PROFESSOR

  • 2009 – 2014   Sogang Graduate School of Business, Seoul, Korea
  • 2008 – 2014   Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble, France
  • 2008 – 2011   EADA, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2007 – 2010   IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
  • 2007               HEC, Montreal, Canada
  • 2007               ESSEC, Paris, France
  • 2005               Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University,
                            Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2002               CEIBS (China Europe International Business School), Shanghai, China

AFFILIATIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS

  • 2017 –       Independent Director, Security Bank, The Philippines
  • 2017 –       Board Member, EFMD
  • 2016 –       International Board Member, AACSB
  • 2015 –       Steering Committee, Co-Chair, EFMD
  • 2014         Academic of the Year Award, MSc Programmes, MBS
  • 2014         Academic of the Year Award, Doctoral Programmes, MBS
  • 2005         Highly Commended – Public Sector, Asian Women of Achievement Award, UK
  • 2004         Finalist, AT Kearney MBA Teaching Excellence Award, MBS
  • 2003         Finalist, AT Kearney MBA Teaching Excellence Award, MBS
  • 2002         Inducted to the Institute for Learning and Teaching, UK

PUBLICATIONS

  • Pusaksrikit, T., & Kang, J. (2016). The impact of self-construal and ethnicity on self-gifting behaviors. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 26(4), 524-534. doi:10.1016/j.jcps.2016.02.001