Mack Robinson College of Business (RCB), Georgia State University, Atlanta (USA), and the former director of CERMAS, the College’s Center for Enterprise Risk Management and Assurance Services. He has an undergraduate degree in Education/Pedagogy and received his Bachelor, MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Before joining Georgia State University in 1998, Alfred was a faculty member of the Swiss Banking Institute (University of Zurich/Switzerland). Also, he has held visiting appointments at Thunderbird (The Garvin School of International Management), and New York University (Stern School of Business).