Saul Klein is a Professor Emeritus and the former Dean of the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria (Canada), and is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Victoria Forum.
Born in Zimbabwe, Saul has had a broad-ranging career spanning developing, developed and transition countries. He holds a BA in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto (Canada). From 1996 to 2001, before joining the Gustavson School, he was the SA Breweries Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Wits Business School (South Africa). He has been an Extraordinary Professor of International Business at the Gordon Institue of Business Science at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and a Senior Fellow in Marketing at the National University of Singapore. He has also held full-time appointments at Wake Forest University and Northeastern University in the United States, and been a visiting professor at Melbourne Business School (Australia).
As Dean, Saul launched the Gustavson School’s Brand Trust Index, to measure the extent to which Canadians trust over 400 different brands, and he drove the business school’s commitment to responsible management education.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Primeserv Group Ltd (South Africa). He previously served on the boards of: the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), where he is also an Honorary Member; Mediterranean Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation (Tunisia); the National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development (Canada); the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives (Canada); and on the international business school advisory committees of UIBE (China), Beijing Jiaotong University (China), NSYSU (Taiwan) and the University of Pecs (Hungary).
