Marina Apaydin
- Position: Associate Professor
- Department: Heikal Department of Management
Marina Apaydin is an associate professor of management at The American University in Cairo (AUC) with over a decade of teaching experience in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Apaydin holds a PhD degree in strategic management and innovation from the Western University (Canada), an MBA in finance and international business and an MA in Islamic studies, both from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and a MS in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) from the Leningrad Electrical Engineering University (LETI). Before moving to academia, Apaydin held a position of the deputy director for management at UNESCO’s World Heritage Center in Paris, which had culminated two decades of her prior professional experience in finance, business consulting, and marketing in several industries across Europe, the Middle East, and the USA. Apaydin developed and published the 3A framework for critical thinking, which later served as a basis for Contemporary Management textbook by McGraw-Hill. It also became a way of life for hundreds of her students who adopted this acronym for their alumni association. She taught strategic and cross-cultural management, innovation, international business, decision-making, change management, team-building, and business communications and delivered workshops on case writing, teaching, and learning to professors and students at several universities in Canada, Turkey, China, Egypt, and Lebanon, both, in situ and virtually. She also has published impact-factor academic and practitioner articles on this subject. Apaydin works and teaches in English, French, Italian, Russian, and Arabic.
- Strategic management
- Organizational innovation
- International business
- Cross-cultural management
- Informal social networks
- Middle Eastern cultures
- Teaching and learning innovation
- Doctor of Philosophy in Management – Ivey School of Business, Western University (Canada)
- Master of Art in Islamic Studies – Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California in Los Angeles (USA)
- Master of Business Administration – Anderson School of Business, University of California in Los Angeles (USA)
- Bachelor & Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - Leningrad Electrical Engineering University (Russia)