UNC Strategy Prof New Darla Moore Dean

A SOUTH AFRICAN WHO STARTED HIS CAREER IN BANKING AND FINANCE

Dean Peter Brews started his career in banking and finance before charting a course in academia. He started as lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and immigrated to America as a management consultant and visiting professor for client firms and universities in the United States. He served as an assistant professor at Babson College in the 1993-1994 academic year prior to Duke.

Brews earned his undergraduate degree in business and an LL.B and higher diploma in corporate law from the University of Witwatersrand. He went on to earn a master’s degree in industrial administration from Purdue University and two doctorates in business administration from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Pittsburgh.

He has written extensively about strategic management for Internet-generation companies and over the past decade has developed a deep understanding of the struggle for productivity worldwide, focusing on how nations, firms and individuals are coping with the fast changing, complex, highly competitive global environment of the early 21st century.

Companies often invite Brews to share his views on the structure and evolution of the global economy and how globalization and the Internet and information technology are altering business practice and corporate competitiveness. The companies span industries and include The Boeing Company, Eastman Chemical Company, Caterpillar, Inc., Progress Energy, Siemens AG, Lucent Technologies Asia/Pacific, The Mandarin Hotel Group of Hong Kong, Ford Motor Company, LG of South Korea and Barclays Bank PLC.

APPOINTMENT OF DEAN PETER BREWS FOLLOWS ‘AN INTENSIVE SEARCH FOR A NEW DEAN’

University President Harris Pastides said Brews’ leadership and vision for global education comes at an important juncture for the Moore School. “After an intensive search for a new dean, we have found a great match in Dr. Peter J. Brews who has wide-ranging experience in strategic management, financial management, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions,” Pastides said. “Dr. Brews has extensive international business connections and a keen sense of the global economy’s ongoing evolution. He is the right person at the right time.”