BUILDING GLOBAL LEADERS. IN THE HEART OF AFRICA

BSS FACULTY

Welcome from The Dean

Welcome to the School of Business and Social Science (BSS) of IUGB. Since its establishment in November 2013, BSS has focused on building a top quality school capable of preparing students in business, information systems, political science and related fields to not only meet the workforce requirements of Côte d’Ivoire and countries in the region, but to also compete for leadership roles in the global community. They graduate feeling inspired and confident in having the knowledge and skills necessary to make a meaningful impact as they begin their careers and long thereafter.

Academic Programs within BSS and throughout IUGB are based on the proven U.S. model of higher education. BSS students follow the university’s liberal arts core curriculum and then choose from a number of bachelor’s degree majors and minors as listed under “academic programs.” BSS programs are very attractive. Indeed, the vast majority of IUGB students with declared majors are enrolled in BSS majors.

Even though IUGB has been granting its own undergraduate degrees, the University will continue its extensive collaboration with partner institutions in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States. Currently, those partnerships involve: faculty and student exchange programs, study abroad opportunities, professional development programs and collaborative research and teaching activities.

Thanks to its diverse and highly qualified faculty body, BSS plays a critical role in helping to fulfill IUGB’s mission of providing a practical, technology-based education that puts graduates to work in resolving the development challenges and driving economic growth in Côte d’Ivoire and the region at large.

Please join in and support our efforts to educate and train future African and world leaders.

Yours sincerely

About BSS

The School of Business and Social Science (BSS) provides high quality education in business, computer information systems, and other social sciences including economics, political science and international relations.  

The mission of BSS is to produce the African leaders of tomorrow by providing an internationally recognized higher education through technology-enhanced and English medium instruction in fields critical to the development of Côte d’Ivoire and West Africa, including: Business, entrepreneurship, economics, information technology, international relations, and politics.

In alignment with its mission of offering quality education, BSS has set the following strategic goals:

  • Deliver competitive, relevant, innovative and market-driven education in business, economics, computer information systems, political science and international relations.
  • Provide instruction and research promoting entrepreneurship, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, global access, and community service.
  • Model and provide instruction in ethical business practices.
  • Be a think tank for sustainable solutions to the region’s developmental, technological and environmental problems.

BSS offers programs that lead to Bachelor degrees in various disciplines as well as minors and specialization programs. More specifically, the undergraduate programs at BSS are:

Minors

BSS offers a wide variety of minors that allow students to add a secondary field of study to their major in order to expand and enrich their learning experience and increase their marketability.  All BSS minors, but the Minor in Entrepreneurship, are worth eighteen (18) credits.

  • Accounting (ACT) 
  • Business Administration (BUS) 
  • Computer Information Systems (CIS) 
  • Economics (ECO) 
  • Entrepreneurship (ENT)
  • Finance (FIN) 
  • International Relations (INR) 
  • Management (MGT) 
  • Marketing (MKT) 
  • Political Science (POL)
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Fatima Doumbia Koné is a Mathematics lecturer at the international University of
Grand-Bassam (IUGB). Among the courses she taught we have the following: Introduction to
Differential Equations, Elementary Statistics, Calculus(I,II,III), Transforms in Applied Math,
Introduction to Linear Algebra, Operations Research and Abstract Algebra.
She has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics (IUGB), a Master degree in Pure and Applied
Mathematics (AUST) and she is currently enrolled for a PhD in Mathematics at the African
University of Science and Tecnology (AUST), Abuja. She has also been an intern at the
Institutional Banking Group department within GTBANK CI (Garanty Trust Bank Côte
D’Ivoire).
She is a former IUGB student and she was the president of the science club in 2015.
Academically, her goal is to be a great researcher and innovator on the topics of asymptotic
theories in Fuzzy Probability Theory and their various applications to image processing. She
has good programming skills (JAVA, LaTeX, C++) and she is bilingual (French and English).
Over the years, she has been developing a method of teaching which not only put students at
the center of the learning process but also which deconstruct most of the stereotypes about the
inaccessibility of mathematical knowledge to everybody.
Regarding her research activities, she has been working since 2018 on the topic of integration
on Banach spaces and a preprint of an interesting work is available at
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04480. She is continuing with her research on integration but now
her PhD studies focus on Random Sets Integration in Probability Theory. Professionally, she
is a very active lecturer at IUGB and she is currently the faculty advisor of the SHE CLUB,
which aims at promoting women empowerment by providing learning, leadership and
networking opportunities.

I am currently Associate Professor of computer and data science in the school of science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB).
From 2000 to 2018, I successively worked as a research scientist at Independent Computing Research in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Assistant Professor at the department of computer science and
engineering at Université Laval in Québec, Canada; Research Associate at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) where I also received a Ph.D. degree in computer science in March 2000. Upon receiving a master's degree in mathematical and computing science
from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1990 in Japan, I worked as a research scientist at National/Panasonic, one of the most prestigious companies in Tokyo.
I am involved in research on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Semantic Web and its applications in a wide range of fields. Besides, I designed the current Data Science program in effect
since September 2021 in STEM. In addition, I am also one the founders and current President of the
Ivorian Association of Artificial Intelligence and member of ORBICOM, the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication headquartered in University of Quebec in Montreal (UQUAM), Canada.

Kwame Simpe Ofori is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the school of Business and Social Sciences. He holds a doctorate degree in Finance, a master’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in Telecommunications Technology. He is also currently a PhD student at the School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has taught courses in the areas of finance, computer science, computer and electrical engineering, and telecommunication engineering. Before joining IUGB he lectured in several universities in Ghana. He also worked with Ghana Telecommunications Company as a support engineer. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behaviour, technology adoption and trust in online systems and in recent times financial econometrics. His papers have appeared in several CABS-ranked journals such as Information Technology and People, Journal of Cleaner Productions, Quality Management Journal, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Journal of African Business, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology and Society and Business Review. 

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