Lecturers
During the Master in International Communication Management, you will be taught by people with business and academic backgrounds. This will guarantee diversity in your training. The course has been put together with great care, partly due to the work by the advisory board with key figures from the communications arena.
Programme leader
Chris Aalberts PhD earned his doctorate in Communication Science. He has published books about the involvement of young people in politics, the involvement of citizens in the European Union, spin doctoring and social media. His opinion pieces appear in several newspapers. He teaches in various master courses and is the MICM programme leader at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. In addition, he advises political and social organisations, gives lectures, runs debates and carries out commissioned research assignments.
Lecturers
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| Zah Kahar |
Zah Kahar MSc studied Communication Science with Marketing as a specialisation at the University of Tennessee. She worked in public relations for a multinational in Malaysia, the Perbadanan Nasional Berhad (Pernas). Before that, she was Public Relations Manager for the Pernas hotel chain. She was attached to the Malaysian Embassy in the Netherlands for two years, as an information officer for the Cultural Attaché.
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| Amanda Coady |
Amanda Coady MComn
is a freelance communication’s consultant with over ten years' experience in marketing and communication management for international organisations. She trained and advised organisations like Rituals Cosmetics, WWF, Vauxhall (General Motors), Lafarge Aggregates and Shell. Amanda took the Master in International Communication Management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2005 cum laude.
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| Peter Hanssen |
Peter Hanssen MA
worked for fifteen years in international advertising agencies before taking the plunge into education. After studying at the Rikkyo University in Tokyo and the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Peter worked for a number of years for Japanese brands and companies in Europe, such as Canon, Sharp and Honda. He worked in London and Amsterdam and added other multinational companies like Sara Lee and Unilever to his portfolio. Much to his surprise, he discovered that he was just as enthusiastic about Kiwi shoe polish as about the new Honda Legend.
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| Joe Goldiamond |
Joe Goldiamond MBA
has more than two decades of international experience as an entrepreneur, marketing manager and dean and lecturer. He has extensive expertise in marketing, public relations and relationship management. His articles are published on the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal Europe and The International Herald Tribune. Joe earned his MBA in 1991 at Yale University.
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| Suzan Pecyna |
Suzan Pecyna MA studied English Literature at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Then she worked for over twenty years in internal communications, public relations, marketing and advertising and ran a full-service advertising agency in Scotland. After that, she moved to the Netherlands to specialise in change management with international companies like Nissan, Shell, BP and Nike. She is a regular speaker and coach in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.
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| Wậtte Zijlstra |
Wậtte Zijlstra MSc. studied business administration at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He specialised in marketing and then he carried out market research for publishers Wolters Kluwer. Since 2001, Wậtte Zijlstra has worked at The Hague University of Applied Sciences as Senior Consultant on Communication & Marketing. He also participates in the Consortium of Research in Urban Talent (COST), a collaboration of various researchers working on developing talent of urban youngsters aged 12-24.
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Partner institutions
The Hague University of Applied Sciences has over 150 partner institutions around the world. Various international organisations provide guest speakers. In the past, speakers have come from organisations including Philips, Sara Lee, Unilever, TNT, WWF, Starbucks and Akzo Nobel.
