THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
of
The HR Division of the Academy of Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DENMARK AMBASSADOR: Liza Castro Christiansen 

(Liza.Castro-Christiansen@henley.reading.ac.uk)

 

 

Dr. Liza Castro Christiansen is a Visiting Academic Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading in the UK.  She received her Executive MBA and DBA at Henley Management College in the UK in 1999 and 2006, respectively.  Liza has been  Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Aarhus Business College in Denmark since 2001.  As Visiting Faculty for Henley, she supervises Doctoral associates researching within the areas of Leadership, Change and Learning and MBA candidates writing their dissertations in Marketing.  Liza orginally comes from the Philippines where she obtained her double Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and International Studies.

 

Liza’s current research interests are in the alignment of HR strategy and business strategy and its relationship to organisational performance, HR competencies and leadership and change.

 

Liza has presented her work at the British Academy of Management Conference and she received the Best Paper Award, HR Track at the BAM in September 2009.  She also serves as a reviewer and chair for track sessions at the BAM.  She has published in the Journal of General Management in the UK and in the Henley Working Paper Series.  

 

Liza guests as a contributor and speaker in the HR Managers Association of Denkmark’s practitioner journal “HR Manager” and seminars as well as in the HR Education of the Leadership Academy in Aarhus.  Prior to joining academia in 2001, Liza worked as marketing manager in the education, hotel and IT sectors in Denmark for 14 years. Liza has experience in organisational consultancy and in the management of marketing and sales, key accounts, projects and HR.