Khaldoun Dia-Eddine

Personal profile

Management role

Head of Research/Focus Area, Desk for Middle East and Africa Business

Position at the ZHAW

• Senior Lecturer in Bachelor and Master Courses for International Business, International Negotiation, Doing Business in the Middle East, and "War, Economics and Business", Islamic Finance
• Consultant and expert for the development and implementation of internationalization strategies, Development of companies in Middle-East, multidisciplinary and multicultural projects, Islamic Finance
• Research activities



Activities in further education:
• IEMBA: Emerging markets, International Negotiation, Communication and Public Speaking
• MAS BA: Emerging Markets
• CAS international HR: HR in Middle East
• Tailor made courses: Swiss Police and Security Corps, Swiss Tourism, Angola future leaders
• CAS Foreign Affairs & Applied Diplomacy
• Business Skills Training – The Middle East

www.zhaw.ch/de/sml/institute-zentren/imi/competence-centers-teams/center-for-middle-east-africa-business/

Professional development teaching

• Continuing Education: Business Skills Training – The Middle East
• DAS in Applied Diplomacy
• CAS Foreign Affairs and Applied Diplomacy
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• MAS Business Administration
• MBA Executive Leadership Modules

Expertise and research interests

• Internationalization in Unstable Countries
• Islamic Finance and Financial Crisis
• Vocational Training and Unemployment in Arab World
• Multicultural Negotiations
• Integration of Muslims and Arabs in Switzerland

Appearances:
www.srf.ch/radio-srf-3/radio-srf-3/hilfsreise-nach-syrien-so-sieht-es-im-kriegsgebiet-aus
www.bkv.ch/events/fachreferat-nachhaltiges-islamisches-banking/
www.chgemeinden.ch/wAssets/docs/fachartikel/deutsch/politik/2016/16_09-Politik.pdf
www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/thun/Von-anspruchsvollen-Arabern-und-neugierigen-Chinesen/story/14035954
www.landbote.ch/region/winterthur/iranische-ceos-auf-dem-baeumli/story/30728770
www.kirchenbund.ch/sites/default/files/media/pdf/themen/FAKIR/fakir_kf_de.pdf
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/die-meisten-frauen-legen-den-schleier-problemlos-ab/story/31507936
www.kath.ch/newsd/islam-museum-sieht-sich-als-plattform-fuer-kritik/

Educational background

M.Sc. El. Eng.
MBA Int. Business
Swiss Federal Diploma for adult education
Certified Integral Business Coach


Languages
• French
• Arabic
• English
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Albanian

Professional milestones

• Focus point: International Negotiations, International Business, Doing Business in Middle-East, Emerging markets, Islamic Finance, Cross cultural management, non-profit organization

6 years development engineer for HW and SW development in telecom business
3 years sales supporter of supervisory control systems
10 years Executive Manager in Switzerland and worldwide for industrial, telecom and finance industries
5 years project manager for organization development of a world insurance company
5 years independent consultant and management coach
since 2009 full time Senior lecturer at ZHAW

Membership of networks

• Swiss Arab Network
• Arab Thought Forum
• Xing
• Linked In
• N.Negotiations.ch
• Beirat des Schweizerischen Zentrums für Islam und Gesellschaft, Universität Freiburg
• Swiss African Business Circle
• Arab-Swiss Chamber of Commerce
• Ex-Member of Experts Pool with Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs CH

Publications

• Yildiz, Selim Baha; Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2019.

  Market response to the addition and deletion of participation index : evidence from Turkey.

  Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance.

  12(4), pp. 211-224.

  Available from: http://ibtra.com/pdf/journal/v12_n4_article8.pdf

• Khalili, Nasrin R.; Ehrlich, David; Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2013.

  A qualitative multi-criteria, multi stakeholder decision making tool for sustainable waste management.

  Progress in Industrial Ecology.

  8(1/2), pp. 114-134.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/PIE.2013.055063

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2022.

  Experiencing digital storytelling

  .

  In:

  Yülek, Murat; Wissema, Johan G., eds.,

  Towards third generation learning and teaching : contours of the new learning.

  London:

  Anthem Press.

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2019.

  Digital storytelling for tertiary education in the era of digitization : construction and evaluation of two experiences [paper].

  In:

  Boussafi, Kamel; Mathieu, Jean-Pierre; Hatti, Mustapha, eds.,

  MSENTS 2019 : Social Innovation and Social Technology.

  Mediterranean Symposium on Enterprise-New Technology, Koléa (Algeria), 4-5 November 2019.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 16-49.

  Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ; 162.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60933-7_2

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2013.

  Banking im Sinne Allahs.

  Competence.

  2013(4), pp. 22-23.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4347

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2019.

  Creation of a framework to advance high-tech in Islamic countries.

  In:

  KL Summit 2019, Advance High‐Tech, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-21 December 2019.

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2018.

  L’éducation et le cycle de vie de la smart cité.

  In:

  IC-AIRES2018 : 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems, Tipaza (Algeria), 24-26 November 2018.

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2017.

  Ist die Burka ein religiöser Zwang oder ein kultureller oder politischer Ausdruck? : was sind die Folgen, wenn sie hier zu Lande getragen wird?.

  In:

  100. Generalversammlung der KSSD, Lugano, 11. Mai 2017.

• Dia-Eddine, Khaldoun,

  2017.

  Tunisia export destination and gateway to Africa.

  In:

  Impulse Event: Tunisia, Zürich, 15 November 2017.

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