Vice President, Academic Affairs at City University Qatar (CUQ)/Ulster University in Lusail.
Dr Dimitrios Diamantis i brings over 25 years of business, hospitality and tourism research and teaching experience. His areas of expertise include sustainability, ecotourism, destination management, hospitality (among many other academic research and teaching disciplines).
Dimitrios began his career in 1998 as Associate Lecturer at Bournemouth University. The following year, he joined the faculty of Les Roches Switzerland to be part of the founding team of the BBA program. In 2003, he would go on to supervise the launch of the institution’s first MBA programme. In 2007, Dimitrios returned to the UK to teach tourism management at Sheffield Hallam University while remaining at Les Roches as a visiting lecturer.
He came back to Les Roches Switzerland in 2010, where he continued to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level and oversaw the development of Les Roches’ Postgraduate Diploma and MBA programmes. Dimitrios has previously taught as Visiting Lecturer at KDU University College (Malaysia), Institut Paul Bocuse (France), HTW Chur (Switzerland), ALBA (Greece) and acted as External Examiner and PhD examiner for several UK universities.
Since 2014, he also serves as a member of the judging panel for the Greek Tourism Awards. Dimitrios was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor at Les Roches in March 2016 and then as an Executive Academic Dean in January 2021 and completed his tenure in January 2025. He started is current role at CUQ/ Ulster University, part of Artan Holdings in February 2025.
Dimitrios holds a PhD in Consumer Involvement and Ecotourism from Bournemouth University.
