Michel Rod

Michel Rod is currently the Dean of Business at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. Michel joined UNB from the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University where he was a Professor of Marketing and served as the Associate Dean, Research and International and the PhD Program Director. Prior to that, he was Undergraduate Program Director in the School of Marketing and International Business at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he taught for eight years.

He holds a PhD in Commerce from the University of Birmingham, a Master’s degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Western Ontario.

Michel’s research covers a variety of areas including business-to-business relationships, wine marketing, the triple helix of government-university-industry collaborative interaction, policy issues related to commercializing university-developed intellectual property as well as the impact of effectual decision-making in establishing entrepreneurial ventures. He has published over 60 articles in refereed journals and presented his research many times nationally and internationally, in addition to the leadership roles he has held over the course of his career.