Xiaotian Zhang

Zhang Xiaotian is a SHU Professor of International Business; EU Jean Monnet Professor of Entrepreneurship at Shanghai University; MMI Fellow of International Business at Oulu Business School; and EMCC Fellow at the Stockholm Business School. He is a former Rajawali Fellow at the ASH CENTER of Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

As an entrepreneur, Xiaotian has founded six companies and acted as the Chairman of the Board for five firms in Estonia, Belarus, Finland, Denmark and China. Xiaotian Zhang is honoured to be a member of the Academy of International Business (AIB), the European Institute for Advanced Studies of Management (EIASM) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He is also a member of the Harvard Club of Beijing and the Harvard Club of Shanghai.

Education

• Visiting PhD at Said Business School (short-term) University of Oxford
• PhD Tartu Ülikool / University of Tartu (2009 — 2013)
• Visiting PhD in Maketing and Management University of Southern Denmark (2013)
• PhD studies Vaasan yliopisto (2013 — 2013)
• PhD courses at Turku School of Economics Turun yliopisto (2009 — 2009)
• PhD courses ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas
• MA Belaruski Gandljova-Ekanamièny Universitet Spažyveckaj Kaaperacyi (2008 — 2009)
• MA Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet (2008 — 2009)
• BA Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet (2004 — 2008)

Companies

• Principal Advisor of Cambridge Innovation Academy University of Cambridge (2019)
• Deputy Vice President of Shanghai University Shanghai University (2017)
• Professor of International Business Shanghai University (2017)
• Board Memeber of Sino-European School of Technology Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) (2017)
• Honorary Dean of Higher School of Business and Economics Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2017)
• Senior Advisor to the Rector Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2017)
• Jean Monnet Professor of Entreprenurship European Commission (2017)
• EMCC Fellow - Emerging Markets Cross-Cultural Research Group Stockholm Business School (2017)
• Vice Rector for Science and Research University of International Business, Almaty (2016)