Full-Time Faculty

Admassu Bezabeh, PhD

• PhD in Business Administration, majoring in Finance, UC Berkely 
• MBA, Oregon State University, Corvallis
• MA in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

• International Corporate Finance 
• Corporate Finance
• Investment Principles 
• International Business

• Consulted with University of California extension in banking and finance training programs
•  International Economist for Bank of America

• MBA in Global Strategic Management, Dominican University of California
• BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance, University of California, Berkeley

• Financial Accounting
• Managerial Accounting
• Taxation, A Business Perspective
• Cost Accounting

• Consulted with Bank of America, Piper Jaffray, Thomas Weisel Partners, Bay City Capital, and the City of San Francisco.
• 20 plus years teaching undergraduate and graduate students at CSU East Bay, California Institute for International Business, and Golden Gate University
• KPMG alumna and member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA), and the American Accounting Association (AAA)
• Started a student volunteer program with Tax-Aid

• PhD in Manpower Planning with emphasis on Economics of Education, Stanford University
• MA in Political Science, Stanford University
• BA, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

• Macro Economics
• Micro Economics
• Sustainable Development
• Research Methods and Business Statistics

• Sarlo Distinguished Professor of Business Economics
• Board of Trustee for Teachers College in Ethopia
• Consultant to the United Nations, Employee of UNESCO 
• Currently completing manuscript entitled An Alternative Strategy for Africa’s Economic Development

Jayati Ghosh, PhD
Director, Honors Program

• PhD with emphasis in Industrial Location & Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada
• MA, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• BSc and MSc, University of Calcutta, India

• The World: Issues & Interdependence 
• Growth and Development in Asia Pacific
• World Cultures for International Business
• Business Communication: A Cross- Cultural Perspective

• Taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Science, Medicine and Asian Profile
• Co-edited a book entitled HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology

• PhD in Economics, New York University
• MBA in Finance, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• BA in Economics

• Macro Economics
• International Finance
• Current Issues in the Global Economy
• Corporate Finance

• Consultant in both private and public sectors in Israel, East Asia, and Central America
• Consulted for Bank of America, Bechtel, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the County of Marin

Christopher E. Leeds, MBA, PhD

  Director, Graduate Business Programs

• PhD in Business Administration, University of Illinois 
• MBA with concentration in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois, Chicago
• BA in Hospitality Business, Michigan State University  

• Business Communication and Critical Thinking
• Organizational Behavior
• Strategic Management
• Business Policy

• 20 years of corporate/consultant experience specializing in strategic planning/marketing, organizational behavior/development, business communications, and leadership development/coaching
• Worked with industry leaders such as Marriott Corporation; Human Synergistics Center for Applied Research in Chicago, Illinois; the St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care System in Indianapolis, Indiana; and the North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Extensive international experience including research for the Employer’s Confederation, Stockholm, Sweden; service as a visiting professor at ESCEM in Tours, France; the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Nagoya, Japan and as a consultant in Germany
• Teaching/professional development consultation for the U.S.- Asia Executive Development Program based in Chicago, Illinois

• PhD in Organization and Leadership, University of San Francisco
• MS in Clinical Psychology, California State University, Fresno
• BS in Psychology, Michigan State University  
• Graduate Certificate in Educational Computing, University of San Francisco

• Community Leadership
• Team Development and Leadership
• Leadership Theory and Application
• Business Communications and Critical Thinking 

• Associate Dean, Director of Marketing and Corporate Development, and Director of Academic Advising and Degree Planning at USF

•  Chief Academic Officer as Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of School of Liberal Studies and Professional Studies, Associate Dean and Director of Pathways Evening and Weekend Programs

• Founder of the Institute for Leadership Studies
• Experience in budgeting and human resource management, international education, and academic governance and assessment, served on several community boards

• PhD in Marketing, University of Utah
• MBA, Reutlingen University, Germany
• BS in English, Sonoma State University

• Marketing Principals
• Marketing Management & Research
• Graduate Marketing Special Topics
• Consumer Behavior

• Taught at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense
• Won first prize of  the People’s Choice Awards at the 2003 Advance Consumer Research Film Festival in Toronto
• Presentation and Publication in the 2003 EACR conference in Dublin, Ireland on the discourse surrounding liberatory consumer hopes
• Currently working on his dissertation for submission to the Journal of Consumer Research
• Academic interests include qualitative research methods in consumer behavior and social theories as they relate to marketing and consumption (postmodernism, critical theory, poststructuralism), taboos, and desire in the market place and he has also done research on persuasion knowledge, lifestyle analysis, and critical media literacy.