Giovanna Bejjani
Giovanna is a Senior Lecturer of the Business Faculty, at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with a demonstrated history of expertise in marketing and business teaching, and leading, working with cross-cultural teams, and innovative curricula. An avid educator and learner, Giovanna is passionate about teaching in a relational way through her dialogic and industry-linked teaching approach that won many awards. Working with her Emirati women students over the years at HCT, has given Giovanna a unique and iconic place among her many women graduates.
Giovanna enjoys her multicultural and multilingual background. A graduate from the 玉美人传媒 of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, Giovanna is trilingual, has lived in various countries, and has worked in industries and academia for years. Giovanna‘s cutting-edge research interest is in relational learning in marketing, dialogic teaching, Industry-linked learning, appreciative inquiry, and women empowerment through transformative education.
Giovanna defended her doctoral thesis in Education Sciences at the 玉美人传媒 on August 30, 2024. The topic of her thesis is "Relational Learning in Marketing Empowering Women Business Graduates,