MBA for Aviation Professionals Faculty

Professor Joakim Karlsson is a Professor of Aviation Management at Daniel Webster College. He teaches Trends and Current Problems in Aviation, an honors seminar within the aviation management program, and serves as a faculty supervisor for aviation management internships.

His research interests focus on public administration and financing of airports, air transportation economics, airport environmental issues, and air transportation issues in the European Union. From 1994 to 1998 he served as the Chief of Airport Development for the State of New Hampshire. He has over five years of experience as a senior aviation planner for several consulting firms, working for domestic and international clients.

Mr. Karlsson holds a private pilot certificate and is an FAA Aviation Safety Counselor. He has completed the Center for Aviation Research and Education's Airport Inspector course, as well as New Hampshire Basic Law Enforcement Training for Aeronautical Inspectors. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Dr. Shirley PhillipsDr. Shirley Phillips is an Associate Professor of Aviation at Daniel Webster College. She has taught all of the undergraduate courses in aviation flight operations at the college, as well as human factors in aviation. Dr. Phillips holds Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor certificates and is type rated in the Airbus A320. She has close to 4000 hours of flight time and was a FAA designated pilot examiner. She was previously a ground and simulator instructor for a major air carrier.

Dr. Phillips earned a doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston and combines her experience in aviation and medicine to teach and conduct research in areas related to human factors in aviation. Dr. Phillips completed her undergraduate education at the University of New Hampshire and her masters at the University of North Carolina. She has published numerous articles in aviation trade magazines including AOPA Pilot, Flight Training, and Aviation for Women.

Mark Harrison, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Daniel Webster College. Prof. Harrison took his first degree in engineering, and then worked for ten years in Southeast Asia as an engineering and management consultant to petroleum companies. He returned to school for a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and now pursues a second career in academics. He teaches both business and economics, and writes on each topic as well. He lives with his wife in their self-built house in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

 

 

Lynn DeGraceis a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Illinois Certified Public Accounting Society in the U.S. She obtained a Masters degree in Business Administration from McGill University in 1995. She has over twenty years experience with major business, accounting, academic and sales-oriented organizations in the full range of financial and administrative management, internal audit, taxation, cost accounting, consulting and client services, financial forecasts and budgets. Ms. DeGrace currently practices public accounting in Montreal. She also teaches in the Accountancy departments at both McGill University and Concordia University.

Kostas Iatrou, Ph.D., is the co-founder, Managing Director and Editor of AirTransportNews. He holds a Ph.D. in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University , UK . He is co-author of the book Airline Choices for the Future: From Alliances to Mergers. He has participated both as moderator and as speaker in numerous air transport conferences all over the world including IATA Commercial Strategy Symposium, ACI World and Europe Assemblies, AFRAA Assemblies and Low Cost Airlines MENA. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching in the MBA Program for Aviation Professionals at Daniel Webster College and Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield University . He has conducted seminars on alliances under the auspices of IATF of IATA. Kostas has presented his work and research on alliances at the ICAO Liberalisation Symposium in 2006 and at several Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) World Conferences. His articles have featured in numerous air transport publications,such as the Journal of Air Transport Management, the Journal of Air Transportation, the Journal of Airport Management, the Annals of Air and Space Law of McGill University, Aerlines and in the book: Aviation and Tourism: Implications for Leisure Travel published by Ashgate. He is a Member of the Networking Committee of ATRS and was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 12th ATRS World Conference. Finally, he is the Secretary General of Hellenic Aviation Society and Partner of AirConsulting Group.

Konstantinos Kalligiannis' academic qualifications are: Ph.D. in Airline Branding Cranfield University, M.Sc. Airport Planning and Management Loughborough University, M.Sc. Air Transport Cranfield University and B.A. (Honours) Business Administration Luton University.  He has been working as an aviation consultant since 2001 and his areas of expertise include Aviation Marketing, Air Traffic Forecasting, Airline Business Planning, Airport Planning and Operations and Airport Privatization. He is currently working on the Master Plan for the New Lisbon Airport and the Privatization of the Portuguese Airport System.  

Hank Lehrer, Ph.D., has over 25 years of collegiate faculty experience at Bowling Green State University , OH , Southern Illinois University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach , FL and has been a faculty member at the Aviation Institute at University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) at the rank of Professor and Graduate Fellow. A graduate of Ohio University , Kent State University, and Bowling Green State University , Dr. Lehrer, still an active flight instructor with over 3,000 hours of flight instruction given, holds an ATP with Citation type rating. He has flown a variety of corporate aircraft, has experience as an FAR 141 Chief Flight Instructor, and was employed by FlightSafety in Toledo with the Cessna Citation program. Lehrer has numerous journal articles, book chapters, editorships, presentations, and consultancies to his credit and he led a Native American Outreach project at UNO that focused on improving the mathematics and science skills among students at schools on Nebraska's Indian reservations.

Ananthanarayan Sainarayan (Sai), is a Chartered Accountant and a MBA. He has been in the Accounting and Finance Profession for the last 20 years.  He worked initially with accounting firms in the Middle East and then with AIR INDIA in Mumbai, Kuwait and Cyprus as the head of their Revenue Accounting Department. Sai is currently with the International Civil Air Association (ICAO) as a Senior Officer in the Economic Analyses Databases Unit. This job involves consolidating financial and operational data of the Global Aviation Industry.  Analyzing this data and reporting it to the Management and Contracting States to attain strategic objectives relevant to Civil Aviation i.e. Safety, Efficiency of Operations and Environmental Protection. 

Dr. Patricia Trela teaches classroom and online courses in psychology, interpersonal and business communication, organizational behavior, dispute resolution and team development.
Dr. Trela is also an educational consultant. She works with area school districts and community programs and trains community volunteers, school administrators, teachers and students in conflict management and mediation. As part of the National Security Program directed by the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security Department, she trained airport security screeners and provided administrative services. Dr. Trela is an academic author and has conducted research in the following areas: conflict management, interpersonal relationships, behavioral competencies and leadership development.