NORIFUMI KAWAI

ACADEMIC & RESEARCH POSITIONS

2021-now

• Associate Professor of International Business (with tenure), University of Bergamo, Department of Management (a member of the European Foundation for Management Development [EFMD] & designated as a "Department of Excellence" [Dipartimento di Eccellenza] by the Italian Ministry of University & Research [MUR]), Italy.

2022

• Visiting Professor of International Business, University of Tübingen, Department of Management, Germany.

2019-2021

• Associate Professor of Global Strategy (with tenure), Sophia University, Department of Economics, Tokyo, Japan.

2018

• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, Department of Economics & Manufacturing Management Research Center, Japan.

2017-2023

• Visiting Professor of International Business, University of Pavia, Department of Economics & Management, Italy.

2015-2019

• Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of International Business (with tenure), University of Sussex Business School (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA accredited), Falmer, UK.

2014-2017

• Visiting Professor of International Business, University of Bergamo, Department of Management, Economics & Quantitative Methods, Italy.

2012-2015

• Lecturer/Assistant Professor of International Business (with tenure), University of Sussex Business School (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA accredited), Falmer, UK.

2011-2012

• Research Associate, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Managerial Economics (Mercator School of Management), Duisburg, Germany.

2009-2011

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded “Risk & East Asia” research project in the Mercator School of Management & the Institute of East Asian Studies at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

2005-2007

• Research Associate, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Managerial Economics (Mercator School of Management), Duisburg, Germany.

2003

• Event Coordinator/Public Relations Assistant, The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme Japan Liaison Office, Tokyo & Yokohama, Japan.

2003

• Public Relations Intern, Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors, Pittsburgh, USA.