Formal Name: Christoph Baumann Personal Title: Dr Position: Senior Lecturer in Commerce Organisational Unit: Department of Business Qualification: Economist SEBA (Switzerland), MBA (Simon Fraser), DBA (MGSM) Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8551 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-9956 Email: cbaumann@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 214

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Dr Chris Baumann holds an Economist SEBA (Switzerland), an MBA from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Commerce.

His research interests are customer loyalty, international banking and, in the field of pedagogy, factors contributing to students’ academic performance. In terms of International Business research, Dr Baumann collaborates with the Ming & Stella Wong Professor of International Business, Rosalie Tung, at SFU. Chris has joint-publications in JFSM, IJBM, JBM and JFT, and in excess of ten conference papers, some of which were award-winning.

For his teaching at Macquarie University, he was awarded by the Vice-Chancellor for ‘Excellence in Education’ in 2005, and in 2007, Chris won a national-level Carrick citation. Before his time as an academic, Chris worked in the Swiss banking industry for nearly seven years. His motto in life: “The best things in life are not things” (seen on a T-shirt in Hawaii).

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