Faculty Information｜School of Management - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

ACKARADEJRUANGSRI P.

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Consumer Behavior, Marketing Strategies, Strategic Business Management, Interdisciplinary Learning in an Emerging Market
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Business Case Analysis & Communication

Message to undergraduate students: Sail away from your comfort zone, explore new things along the way, push yourself to exceed limits, and by the end of four years, you will be surprised how close you are to your dreams! Message to graduate school students: Be ready to learn, unlearn, and relearn, and enjoy every moment of your graduate life!

ALCANTARA Lailani Laynesa

Professor

Specialization Areas	Management
Main class	International Management, Global Strategy for Impact

ASGARI Behrooz

Professor

Specialization Areas	Management of Technology, Economics of Technological Change, Systems science, Industrial Engineering
Main class	Operations Research, Supply Chain Management

Hopefully you can enjoy the multicultural, multilingual APU environment and try to learn living with people from other cultures in harmony and peace. We all are entitled to peace and freedom.

BARAI Munim Kumar

Professor

Specialization Areas	Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, FDI, Trade and Macroeconomics
Main class	Financial Market and Institutions, Finance

APU is a place where one can develop a wider outlook to understand the world better. That is also the need of the hour.

BEISE-ZEE Marian

Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration, Economic Statistics, Commerce
Main class	Agile Product Development and Design Thinking, Product Development Strategy

Message to undergraduate students: A main part of your courses will be projects. I embrace the diversity and creativity of students. Managerial knowledge is often facilitated by challenging conventional wisdom and not by rote learning. Message to graduate school students: I strive to create a professional environment in the classroom that provides students with an opportunity to acquire the kind of managerial knowledge that cannot easily be learned ‘on the job’.

CHEN Shu-Ching

Professor

Specialization Areas	Marketing and Management
Main class	Marketing Research, Introduction to Marketing

Message to undergraduate students: Enjoy every moment at APU and create your personal value from it. You can then confidently head out to the world and towards what you are interested in. Message to graduate school students: Impossible is nothing. But be sure you are well equipped.

CORTEZ Michael A.

Professor

Specialization Areas	Accounting, Business administration, Environmental policy and social systems, Tourism studies
Main class	Cost Accounting, Financial AccountingI

FUJII Seiichi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration, Commerce
Main class	Social Entrepreneurship and Change Maker, Technology Management

Message to undergraduate students: New products have become a familiar part of our everyday lives. In order for companies to develop these new products, they have to draw on the strengths of many different departments such as manufacturing, development, marketing and more. The success or failure of the product rests on how well these different aspects can be worked together. Message to graduate school students: In order to succeed in developing new products, greater cross-functional integration across departments, integration of strategies between executives and managers, and the integration of products for consumers and industrial firms are required. This is an extensive and interesting field of research.

FUJIMOTO Takeshi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Management
Main class	Supply Chain Management, International Marketing

Two subjects that I am interested in are marketing and supply chain management strategy. I look forward to meeting students who are interested in marketing and the future-oriented strategic thinking skills it can give you. It is a great joy for me to be able to share my research with you and to make leaning a fun experience for everyone.

FUJITA Masanori

Professor

Specialization Areas	Business management, technology management, start-up business, scientometrics, social network analysis
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Business Case Analysis & Communication

Spend quality time and enjoy your precious student life with your friends from various countries and with your experiences in various cultures.

FUKUYAMA Kimihiro

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Greater China Business, Blockchain, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, Metaverse
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Family Business Management

Welcome aboard to the School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University! Let's enjoy APU life together! Oita has a lot of beautiful places and exciting business environment.

GUNARTO Hary

Professor

Specialization Areas	Information Technology
Main class	Database Systems, New Media and Society

The best way to build a promising future is by learning and doing enthusiastically extra and more, despite the Metaverse generation where physical and virtual worlds metamorphose excitedly.

HOOI Carol Lai-Wan

Professor

Specialization Areas	Business administration
Main class	Negotiation Skills, Research Design and Method

KAWAZOE Satoshi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Finance
Main class	Legal Strategy in Business, Finance

Cross border relations will probably intensify further even if there is backlash against globalization. I look forward to exploring our future with students at this culturally diverse university.

KHAN Muhammad T.

Professor

Specialization Areas	Communication/Network Engineering
Main class	Database Systems, Programming Essentials

KIM Young Sun

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Consumer Psychology, Service Experience Management, Digitalization of Business, Experimental Research
Main class	Digital Marketing, Family Business Management

"Carpediem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary!" - Dead Poets Society. Please do not waste your time. Instead, focus on making positive changes in your life.

KOZUMA Rintaro

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Number Theory
Main class	AI and Data Science, Programming Essentials

The secret to success is to actively take on new challenges.

LEE Geunhee

Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Marketing Research

Your four years at university are very important and have the potential to determine your later life. In addition to studying hard, I hope that you meet different people and experience as much as you can.

MAKINO Emi

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration
Main class	Entrepreneurship、

NAKAJIMA Katsushi

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Money and Finance, Economic theory
Main class	Finance

Your future is what you make it. Good Luck!

OKUYAMA Ryo

Professor

Specialization Areas	Technology Management, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy
Main class	Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management

多文化の環境を楽しみながら、一緒に学び、考える力を養いましょう。

OTAKE Toshitsugu

Professor

Specialization Areas	Commerce
Main class	Operations Research, Special Lecture in Finance

Message to undergraduate students: Recently, a knowledge of mathematics and statistics is increasingly required even in the liberal arts subjects. Statistics is especially indispensable in the business field. I invite you to develop your ability to use MATLAB and SPSS data analysis tools and learn how to apply them to financial and risk management scenarios. Message to graduate school students: My research interest is in quantitative risk management and my research centers on risk management techniques of financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and non-banks. I’m also investigating the construction of mathematical-statistics risk models, and the risk management role of a credit information bureau.

OZAWA Tomoyuki

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business administration, Accounting
Main class	Special Lecture in Accounting, Accounting II

Study for Your Own Comfortable Life

PARDO Phillip Dean

Professor

Specialization Areas	Taxation, Transfer Pricing, Virtuous Management, Codes of Conduct, Resilience, Audit and Governance, International Business Transactions
Main class	Accounting I, Accounting II

Message to undergraduate students: My role as an Accounting teacher is to help students understand the purpose, theories, methods and practical applications of the Language of Business in an active classroom. Message to graduate school students: Communication, management and verification are the goals of accounting. Humanity and business have long relied on the information generated by the language of accounting to make sense of their activities.

RUIZ-NAVAS Santiago

Assistant Professor

Specialization Areas	Business administration, Others, Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics
Main class	Business Data Analytics, Venture Entrepreneurship

The future is yours to make, reach out for your dreams, we (the university, me included) will do our best to help you get there.

SAITO Hiroaki

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Psychology, Hospitality Management, Tourism Management
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Organizational Behavior

Message to undergraduate students: It is no one but you who create your future. APU provides you a great opportunity to develop your perspectives, skills, and networks for your future. Let’s create a great learning experience together. Look forward to embarking on the journey with you! Message to graduate school students: APU has many rich resources to help you develop your research skills. Use them cleverly and develop your future perspectives in academic research.

SATO Hiroto

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Accounting
Main class	Business Data Analytics, Accounting I

SHINOHARA Yoshiki

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Business Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion, Social Entrepreneurship
Main class	Organizational Behavior

Companies are expected to bring benefits to society in addition to only focus on making a profit . My research seeks to answer important questions that need to be answered in society, such as what kind of companies have a positive impact on society, why do companies commit scandals, and how can we create an inclusive work environment? I hope that you will not only study at university, but also conduct "research" in which you set your own questions and answer them.

SUZUKI Yasushi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Political Economy, Islamic Economics, Institutions
Main class	Financial Market and Institutions

USREY Bryan Gordon

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business administration, Experimental psychology
Main class	Global Management (Capstone), Introduction to Marketing

YANG Jeongwoo

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration, Accounting, Internal Audit, Internal Control, Corporate Governance
Main class	Accounting I, Auditing

How you live today determines how you live tomorrow. The most important thing is to find out your own answers to the meaningful questions including the reason why you study today and what today means for realizing your dreams in the future.

YOO Bosul

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Digital Marketing
Main class	Digital Marketing, Marketing Research

4年間の努力と経験が貴重な財産として残るように、自ら目標を探し、達成していく大学生活にしてください。

ZHANG Wei-Bin.

Professor

Specialization Areas	Economic theory, Money and finance, Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy
Main class	Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

Message to undergraduate students: Life is long but the golden time we have for learning is short. Use your time at APU wisely. A solid learning equips you for uncertain futures; pleasant experiences make life meaningful. Message to graduate school students: Studying management also means learning how to manage one’s own life. I hope that you have a fruitful and pleasant academic time and enjoy Beppu’s calm beauty, relaxing hot spring, and Japanese food.

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