GSU-CIBER faculty member Leigh Anne Liu is awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics 2020-2021. The Fulbright Program is the world’s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program. As a grantee, Leigh Anne will join the ranks of many distinguished program participants, including Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and thousands of leaders across the private, public and non-profit sectors. Leigh Anne will spend a semester at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki Finland to conduct research and guest lecture on topics of global competency and workplace conflict management in multicultural contexts. The culture of Finland offers a unique perspective on gender equality, personal autonomy, creativity, and civil liberties – a new frontier that Leigh Anne is eager to learn and explore in her studies.
Dr. Leigh Anne Liu
Professor of International Business
Georgia State University
Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics
Leigh Anne Liu is the Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics 2020-2021, jointly awarded by the U.S. Department of State, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and Fulbright Finland Foundation. She studies how culture and cognition influence intercultural interactions, including negotiation, conflict management, and collaborations at individual, organization, and national levels. Her research appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of International Business Studies, among other outlets. She has been a visiting professor at University of South Australia, Toulouse Business School in France, Peking University and Nanjing University in China. She has consulted for Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector on conflict management and multicultural competency programs. Professor Liu has taught courses and workshops for undergraduate, MBA, MIB, Ph.D., executives, and high school students on topics of international negotiation, intercultural competency, cross-cultural management, and research methods. She is an associate editor for Journal of Business Research and Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, and a guest editor of three special issues. She has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Management and Organization Review, and International Business Review.