Special Assignments Conducted for International Agencies and Institutions
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Panel Member at the International Management Development Association (IMDA) 12th Annual World Business Congress titled Networking, Global Business Education, Collaborative Educational and Consulting Opportunities, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 26, 2003.

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Panel Member and a Presenter at a Roundtable Conference titled On the Way to Better Non-Political Relations with Libya, Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Maastricht, The Netherlands, April 9-10, 1999. The title of the presentation is “Horizons for Private Financial Cooperation Between the USA and Libya”.

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United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Consultant at Bishkek International School of Business and Management (BISMB), 1994 through 1997.

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Invited Member of Expert Group Meeting on the Development and Management of Trading Institutions and Entrepreneurship in the Trading Sector in East European and Developing Countries.  Organized jointly by International Trade Center, UNCTAD/GATT, International Association of State Trading Organizations of Developing Countries (ASTRO), Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-18, 1990.

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Invited Member of Inter-Regional Expert Group Meeting on the Role of Developing Country Public Enterprises in the International Market Place.  Organized by International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries (ICPE) and the Netherlands International Management Institute (RVB), Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 27-29, 1988.

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Reviewer for a Workshop on Applied Research and Technical Assistance in Agricultural Marketing for the Agency for International Development, Rural Development Division, Arlington, Virginia, November 18-19, 1986.

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Consultant and the Marketing Resource Person for the International Development Research Center project on the Utilization of Research Results in Developing Countries.  Ottawa, Canada, September 23-25, 1987.

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Developed course material and certificate/diploma programs in business administration and prepared Chinese cases in international/business marketing under a Dutch Government project for the Hunan Province Economics Management College, Changsha, Hunan, The Peoples' Republic of China, May 1 to July 1, 1990.

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Distinguished Speaker at the Scandinavian Marketing Faculty Colloquium, Turku, Finland, November 22, 1991.

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Offered a Business to Business Marketing course at The Koblenz School of Corporate Management, Vallendar, Germany, March 11-12, 1993.

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Major Address at The Second International Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference on "Do's and Don'ts of Publishing in Business Administration:  A Comparison of American and European Journals," Perth, Western Australia, December 16-19, 1992. 

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Program Faculty at an executive training program entitled Building Capabilities for Global Market Advantage and Its Impact on Development.  Hosted by Institute of Management Development, The American University in Cairo, June 22-23, 1992, Cairo, Egypt.  Funded by USAID Donald Brown Lecture Series Endowment.

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Program Faculty of international marketing at an executive training program developed for Egyptian managers on international business, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, July 3, 1992.  Funded by USIS and USAID.

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Inaugural Speaker at the Opening of Graduate School of Business Administration, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, June 1994.

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Field Reader for Centers for International Business Education Program, U.S. Department of Education, December 18-22, 1995.

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Consultant for Abt Associates Inc., Maryland, U.S.A., 1988 to present.

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Training Consultant for UNCTAD/WTO International Trade Center (ITC), Geneva, Switzerland, May and August 1997.

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Training Advisor for National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, March 1998.