Marina Apaydin
- Position: Associate Professor, Strategy and International Business
- 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. She holds a PhD in strategic management and innovation from Western University, an MBA in finance and international business and an MA in Islamic studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MS in unmanned aerial vehicles from Leningrad Electrical Engineering University (LETI).
Before joining academia, Apaydin served as deputy director for management at UNESCO’s World Heritage Center in Paris, following two decades of professional experience in finance, business consulting and marketing across Europe, the Middle East and the United States. She developed and published the 3A framework for critical thinking, which formed the basis for the Contemporary Management textbook by McGraw-Hill and inspired an alumni association created by her students.
Her teaching covers strategic and cross-cultural management, innovation, international business, decision-making, change management, team-building and business communication. She has also delivered workshops on case writing, teaching and learning at universities in Canada, Turkey, China, Egypt and Lebanon, both in person and online. Apaydin has published in academic and practitioner journals 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)
- MA in business administration – Anderson School of Business, University of California in Los Angeles (USA)
- Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - Leningrad Electrical Engineering University (Russia)