Staff Profile

Gabriele is Associate Dean Global for Newcastle University Business School.

Gabriele has responsibility for leading and managing the development and delivery of the School’s academic-led Global Strategy. She has extensive experience in driving the agenda for strategic international partnership development, coordination of international collaborations across education and research and for leading on the development and implementation of international programme collaborations.

Prior to joining the Business School, Gabriele was at the University of Exeter Business School where she undertook a range of roles including Associate Dean of International & Development, Head of Department, Degree Programme Director and Academic Lead for the relationship with INTO and other collaborative partners. In addition, Gabriele has significant experience providing academic leadership for international business school accreditations (EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA). 

With more than 25 years teaching experience, Gabriele has taught at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level in modules such as Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, Accounting for Managers and Comparative International Accounting; and supervised dissertations .

She has also had academic responsibility for study abroad modules for many years. 

Gabriele's research interests relate to Comparative International Accounting and Accounting History, and specifically changing accounting systems such as the result of German reunification.

In more recent years, Gabriele has also developed an interest in research related to Higher Education of Management, specifically policy, management and governance in HE, Internationalisation in HE and Student transitions and graduate employability.