Associate Professor Greg Simons has a PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and is currently a researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University in Sweden and a lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences at Turiba University in Riga, Latvia. His research interests include: changing political dynamics and relationships, mass media, public diplomacy, political marketing, forms of Organised Persuasive Communications, crisis management communications, media and armed conflict. He also researches the relationships and connections between information, politics and armed conflict more broadly, such as the GWOT and Arab Spring, along with interpretations and representations of the transforming global geopolitical order.
The general objective of this course is to understand the meaning of the main economic indicators and how they are impacting the business environment.
