Emeritus Professor Mohamed Sulaiman holds a Ph.D. (Business Administration) from University of Wales Cardiff, U.K., MBA from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and a B.A. (Economics) from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He laid the foundations of the School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and shaped the development of the school. Now the school has more than 1200 undergraduates in 5 majors (Finance, Marketing, Organization & Human Resources, & Operations Management) as well as a Bachelor of Accounting, 200 MBA students and more than 120 M.A and Ph.D. students. He was instrumental in developing the MBA program to be one of the top 25 MBA programs in Asia Pacific. Besides, he designed the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) which was launched in 1999. The school has grown from 6 faculty members in 1981 to 53 in 2004 and now the MBA & DBA Programs formed the Graduate School of Business at USM.
Emeritus Professor Mohamed Sulaiman founded the Asian Academy of Management (AAM) in 1994. It has about 200 members. The AAM publishes two journals, the AAM Journal (twice a year) and the AAM Journal of Accounting and Finance, which are internationally refereed and both are listed in Scopus index. The AAM also convenes the AAM conference once every two years. Each conference is usually attended by 120 representatives from 20 to 30 countries from Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa and North America. He held the Chair Professor of Islamic Management at Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia.
He was appointed to the prestigious Tun Razak Chair Professor at Ohio University, USA for 1997-2000. After retiring from USM he was Head of Department at Faculty of Economics and Management of International Islamic University Malaysia, before being appointed as Chair of Islamic Management. He is now Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Management, IIUM.
Emeritus Professor Mohamed Sulaiman has graduated 31 PhD?s in the area of Strategic Management, Organizational Behavior, Leadership and International Business. He had published more than 60 papers in international journals.