Timothy Mescon, PhD

Timothy Mescon, PhD, chair of the Advisory Board, is currently Executive in Residence at the Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University. Previously, Mescon was executive Vice President and Chief Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for AACSB International, the oldest, largest accreditor of business schools in the world. In this capacity, Mescon and his team supported close to 600 members and 180+ accredited schools throughout EMEA. 

Mescon is President Emeritus of Columbus State University in Georgia, where he served for more than six years. Prior to that, he was Dean and Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair for 18 years at the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. He had previously been Dean at the Perdue School at Salisbury (MD) University and a tenured faculty member and Assistant Dean at the University of Miami Herbert School of Business, and an Assistant Professor of Management at the Carey College at Arizona State University. 

Mescon is the author of more than 200 articles and case studies and he has co-authored five books, including 'Entrepreneurship: Venture Initiation, Management and Development' 2nd edition (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) and his latest co-edited work, 'Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning Post-COVID-19 - The Crucial Role of International Accreditation,' (Springer, 2022). In 2021, Mescon was named a Fellow of the UK Chartered Association of Business Schools. In 2023, he began a five-year appointment as Visiting Professor at the Ulster University Business School in the UK.

He also serves on the visiting Strategy Board at Henley Business School, UK, the Dean's Advisory Board at the Coller School of Business at Tel Aviv University and the International Accreditation Board at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business in Poland.

Mescon received an honorary professorship from the Alfred Nobel University in Ukraine and an honorary doctorate from the United Methodist University in Liberia.