School of Business & Technology Faculty
Eric Click, PhD
Academic Director; Director of the MBA and MA Management and Leadership Programs
Eric Click joined Webster Geneva in 2023. He has over 20 years of academic and administrative experience in student retention and success, assessment and accreditation, curriculum development and design, and blended and distance learning. Click's former position titles include academic director, head of department, program chair, Higher Learning Commission peer reviewer, and tenured associate professor.
His scholarship has focused on public financing and economics, market failure and intervention, and the social impact of nonprofits. Before joining Webster Geneva, Click served as acting vice-rector for academics at Webster University Tashkent and chair of the Academic Council at Webster University Tbilisi. Click holds a PhD from the University of Texas-Dallas.
Mariana Alba, PhD
Head of Business and Management; Faculty, Communication Sciences, Brand Management, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility
Mariana Alba was educated in Buenos Aires (Pontifical Catholic University of Buenos Aires) and Madrid (Universidad Complutense), where she earned her PhD in Communication Sciences. She is a professional with 30-plus years of experience as a public relations officer in private business and international organizations in Argentina, Spain, Canada and Switzerland.
During the last five years, in parallel with her responsibilities in academic programs in Marketing and Communication, she has dedicated herself to knowledge management and the execution of several projects related to corporate social responsivity, sustainability and social impact. Her passion now lies in economic development and social progress through joint management with private business and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Her academic and professional experience enables her to continue working on projects related to knowledge transmission, and to facilitate in-class and online educational projects.
Alba, M. (2022), Travel during and post-pandemic: Towards a new, more efficient travel model. (Viajes durante y postpandemia: Hacia un nuevo modelo de viaje más eficiente) CEDAE Online. ISSN: 3008-816X
Interview on Skills for Employability. Le Pôle. Montes Alti. Educational Foundation. Collonge-Bellerive (GE), Switzerland. Feb. 1, 2023.
Alba, M. and Chadda, S., “SIDS in the international sustainable framework. Mauritius: A business case.” ISBN: 9788417129217. Valencia, June 2017.
Alba, M., Country Brand. The profit of the tourism potential toward economic development. ISBN: 9788415986966. Valencia, June 2016.
Alba, M. et al., Libro Blanco sobre Gestión de Oficinas de Transparencia. Procedimientos y casos de estudio para universidades públicas. (A white paper on corporate governance. Procedures and case studies for Public Universities). Valencia, January 2016. ISBN: 9788473514668.
Alba, M., Estudio de la marca país en el siglo XXI: Un enfoque holístico de gestión de marcas territoriales Study on the country brand in the XXI century: A holistic approach on the territorial brand management). ISBN: 9788415986966. Valencia, June 2015.
Alba, M. Epistemological fundamentals of the country brand study in the 21st century. From the destination brand to the concept of the new public diplomacy. ISBN: 9788461684199 (PhD Thesis). Madrid, May 2014.
Presentations
UNITAR Future Global Youth Leaders Programme with our division, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2024.
Webster. Creativity & Innovation Days. Being Human. Past, Present and Future. Geneva, Switzerland, April 10-12, 2024. “The impact of creativity and inspiration in human beings. How creativity inspires us and drives us in life.”
Webster China Visit to the Webster Campus. iMBA Summer Study Tour 2023. Geneva, Switzerland, July 24-28, 2023. First Presentation: “Women in STEM2D. Leading a New Generation of Business and Healthcare Talent.” July 25, 2023. Second Presentation: “Country Brand and New Public Diplomacy. The bilateral trade and economic relations between Switzerland and China through the New Silk Road. July 27, 2023.”
Webster. Creativity & Innovation Days. Geneva, Switzerland, April 24-28, 2023. “Women in STEM2D Leading a New Generation of Business and Healthcare Talent.”
ESIC Business School: III International Symposium on Innovative Tourism Marketing, Spain, June 2016.
EIC Business School: II International Symposium on Innovative Tourism Marketing, Spain, June 2015.
Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship - Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, January 2014. Dedicated workshops on Business Ethics for SMEs lead by GlobEthics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Editorial Counseling
Editorial Board and co-founder of the online magazine Derecom, Madrid (2002 to-date). Derecom is the International Journal of Communication Law and New Technologies of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. (ISSN: 1988-2629 / Index: RESH (CSIC-CCHS), DICE (CSIC-ANECA), CIRC (EPUC, CCHS, CSICA).
Email: malbamanrique@webster.edu
Alexis Kauffmann, PhD
Head of Computer Science and Management Information Systems; Faculty, Computer Science
Alexis Kauffmann joined Webster Geneva in 2022. He has become Head of the Computer Science program in April 2024. He has about 15 years of academic experience including teaching computer science and math, and conducting research in computational linguistics and natural language processing.
After studying Computer Science at the University of Grenoble, Kauffmann has been a specialist in English-Japanese and Japanese-English machine translation, working on this topic at research laboratories of University of Tokyo, University of Geneva and University of Kyoto. More recently, Kauffmann has also worked on the detection of periphrasis for named entities in French and English.
Kauffmann is also a songwriter and musician, playing in his band called Father's Day.
2021: Indirectly Named Entity Recognition, in Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research, Vol. 5. With François-Claude Rey, Iana Atanassova, Arnaud Gaudinat, Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Hélène Madinier.
2014: Structural Asymmetries in Machine Translation: The case of English-Japanese, PhD thesis.
2013: Comparative Evaluation of Statistical Post-Editing in English-Japanese MT, at 言語処理学会 (NLP 2013), Nagoya, Japan. With Asheesh Gulati.
2011: Treatment of Complex sentences, Modality and Verbal Structures in Linguistics-Based MT; at 言語処理学会 (NLP 2011), Toyohashi, Japan. With Sadao Kurohashi and Daisuke Kawahara.
2005: Example-based machine translation pursuing fully structural NLP; at International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2005), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. With Sadao Kurohashi, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Daisuke Kawahara.
Email: alexiskauffmann@webster.edu
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Françoise Maillard, PhD
Head of Health Care Management; Faculty, Health Care Management
Françoise Maillard is professor and head of the Health Care Management master and certificates programs at Webster Geneva Campus since 2001. She earned her PhD from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) and her MScN (Master of Science in Nursing) from the University of Rhode Island (USA). At Webster she teaches theoretical fundamentals, research and practice methodologies with a transformative worldview. She frequently lectures at international conferences (U.S., Canada, Singapore, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland).
Duarte-Quilao T. and Maillard Strüby F.V. (2018). The Living Experience of Suffering: A Parse Method Study. Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 31 (4), pp. 346-354.
Doucet, T.J., and Maillard-Strüby, F. (2009). The Human-becoming Leading-Following Model in Practice. Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 333-338.
Maillard-Strüby, F. (2009). Transforming While Affirming Those We Serve: Parse's Theory in Switzerland. Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 212-213. DOI: 10.1177/0894318409338693
Email: fmaillard98@webster.edu
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