Prof Rasoava Rijamampianina has orchestrated and taught on various local and international programmes at leading institutions in South Africa, Ghana, Japan, USA, France, UK, Madagascar and Mauritius.

Prof Rasoava Rijamampianina is an international visiting faculty at leading institutions in Africa, Asia and Europe. Previously, he held various leadership and directorship positions, including Academic Directorship, the Directorship of the Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa – a joint initiative of Wits Business School and Harvard Business School (USA), and the Management Advancement Programmes at the Wits Business School (South Africa). Rija, as he is affectionately known, was also a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Hokkaido University (Japan) and an auditor-consultant at Delta Audit Deloitte & Touche (Madagascar) for many years. He holds a DSSC and a DESCA from the National Institute of Accounting Science and Business Administration – INSCAE (Madagascar), an MBA from Otaru University of Commerce (Japan), and a DBA degree from Hokkaido University (Japan).

His research and teaching interests include customer centricity, multicultural/diversity management, employee experience, talent management, leadership and change. His work has resulted in numerous publications in scholarly journals and international conference proceedings.

Rija is an editorial board member of various international academic journals and a member of several international academic associations, with many of these based in Japan.

Rija’s biography is published in the 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in the World.