Edinburgh Business School

Shirin Jarrar

Shirin Jarrar

Associate Professor, Global Director of MBA Programmes, MBA Programme Director (Dubai)

BBA (Hons), MBA

Shirin, BBA (Hons), MBA, is an Associate Professor of Finance, the Global Director of MBA Programmes, Senior Director of Studies for the MBA Programme, and the MBA Programme Director in Dubai for Edinburgh Business School at Heriot‐Watt University Dubai.

Shirin has the responsibility of overseeing the MBA programmes globally. She is the Senior Director of Studies for the MBA Programme and leads the academic operation and offerings of the MBA programme across the various modes of study and locations.

Shirin teaches on the Finance and Accounting subjects as well as the Entrepreneurship and Creativity course on the MBA programme. She has also been on panels of many business competitions, judging and providing feedback to competing students on their business ideas, business plans and pitches. She has been an academic mentor for the MBA students too competing on prestigious global competitions. 

Shirin is a member of the Senior Leadership Team of Edinburgh Business School, the Learning and Teaching group, the School Studies Committee and various other academic and operational committees within Edinburgh Business School, the School of Social Sciences and the Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus.

Areas of interest

  • Finance, Accounting, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Higher Education

Qualifications

  • 2007 – Master of Business Administration 
    Heriot-Watt University
     
  • 1997 – Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) 
    University of Jordan

Background

Shirin has been an academic, contributing to the Edinburgh Business School and Heriot-Watt University’s in her various roles since 2007. Prior to that Shirin was in a professional business career having worked for several years as a Commercial Manager for internationally well-known brands like the BMW AG, LandRover, Samsung home appliances and other European industrial machinery manufacturers in the Middle East region.

In Dubai, Shirin with her team has established the Edinburgh Business School’s MBA programme offering at Dubai Campus in 2007. She has since overseen the academic and operational delivery of the MBA programme in both pathways; the part-time MBA since the start in 2007, and the full-time MBA programme since 2011.