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Dr. Simone Bunse has been the Director of Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor at Lead University, Costa Rica since January 2017. From 2010-2016 she was a faculty member at Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA. From 2010-2013 she directed the Oxford Graduate Program in International Management offered by Georgetown university’s McCourt School of Public Policy and the McDonough School of Business (MSB). At MSB she has taught both in the Executive and evening MBA programs. Prior to coming to Georgetown she was an Assistant Professor at the INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. Simone Bunse holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford (UK) and is a former visiting researcher at the Free University of Brussels. She has taught courses including: political risk analysis, decision-making for public policy, comparative policy process, policy analysis (client-based research) and has ample experience in supervising research projects.

Prior to her academic career she was a project manager at the international consulting firm Oxford Analytica. She has published with leading publishers, including Oxford University Press (“The Oxford Handbook of the European Union”) and Palgrave McMillan. Her book “Small States and EU Governance” won the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award by the American library Association for excellence in scholarship.

Her 2014 article 'Latin American Female Executives: An Interesting Surprise’ - a collaborative effort by a team of researchers published in the Journal Gender in Management was awarded the Highly Commended Paper Award 2014 by Emerald. Over the academic year 2016-17 Simone Bunse was selected as a Doyle Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University to expand inclusive pedagogies and diversified course content to graduate courses to deepen the university's commitment to tolerance and diversity.