Nicola Kleyn

Professor Nicola Kleyn is the Dean: Executive Education at Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and a full professor of Corporate Marketing.

Until June 2020 Prof Kleyn was Dean of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), a position she held for five years. In addition to her executive management responsibilities at GIBS, Prof Kleyn is a researcher and teacher in the areas of Corporate Branding and Reputation Management. She is also an active strategic facilitator and enjoys moderating public events.

Prof Kleyn a former President of the Board of the South African Business Schools Association (SABSA), Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS), the African representative on the CEEMAN board and a member of the global EYQ Fellows Program and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Gordon Institute of Business Science and MIB Trieste School of Management.

Qualifications

• DBA (UP)
• MBA (Wits)
• B Com (Hons) (Wits)

Core Discipline

• Marketing

Work Experience

• Extraordinary Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Professor (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)
• Dean: Executive Education (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)
• Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Dean (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Deputy Dean (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Director: Academic Programmes (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Associate Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Part-time Programme Director: Custom Programmes (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Senior Lecturer (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Head: Investec Business School (Investec (Pty) Ltd)
• Learning Specialist (Investec (Pty) Ltd)
• Lecturer (University of Witswatersrand)
• Trainee Store Controller (Edgars Group)
• Junior Lecturer (University of Witswatersrand)