Umair Akram

Dr Umair Akram is currently a Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at SBM. Before Joining RMIT, he had over 6 years teaching experience in China and Pakistan. He was worked as an Associate Professor at school of management, Jiangsu University. He has completed his post-doctoral fellowship from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University China.


Awards & recognition:
- Chinese Government Scholarship for PhD
- Chinese Government Outstanding International Student Scholarship in the year 2017
- Best paper nominated by “The 11th International Conference of Management Science and Engineering Management 28th July to 2nd August Kanazawa, Japan.
- Best Graduate Student Award 2014-2018
- Highly Commended Emerald Literati Award for paper “Investigation of talent, talent management, its policies and its impact on working environment. Chinese Management Studies. 2018
- Highly Commended Emerald Literati Award for paper “Antecedents of frontline manager handling relationship conflict” International Journal of Conflict Management. 2019


Employment history:
Mar 2021 – Apr 2022: School of Management, Jiangsu University, China
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020: Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Oct 2013 – June 2014: Visiting Lecturer GC University Faisalabad
Sep 2011- June 2014: IBMS, University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan