Professor Stephen Wilkins

Stephen Wilkins is Professor of Strategy and Marketing in The British University in Dubai, where he acts as Head of Doctoral Programmes – Business Management, responsible for the Professional Doctorate in Business Management (DBA) and PhD in Business Management. Prior to entering employment in higher education, Stephen’s industrial experience was in retail management in the United Kingdom, where he worked for several companies at branch and regional manager levels. He also has expertise in management development and competence-based training and has worked with companies in the UK, United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman. Stephen received his PhD in Management from the University of Bath, UK. He has supervised more than 200 Master dissertations and projects, and more than 30 PhD students. He has authored more than 100 scholarly works, of which more than 80 are international peer-reviewed journal articles. In the Stanford study of researcher impact 2021, Stephen is ranked in the Top 2% of researchers globally. He has acted as external examiner for several universities worldwide and has previously held visiting professor positions at Hong Kong University, School of Professional and Continuing Education, and Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, China.