Our international trade tutors
Our tutors come from many different backgrounds and represent a variety of academic, commercial, organisational and cultural experiences. When we enrol you, we will consider all the information you give us so that we can allocate the most appropriate tutor(s) to you. Our tutors are:
Ian Clay
Ian tutors on some of our Advanced Certificate courses. Ian has 30 years' experience in supply chain management and logistics, for the most part in the international arena, encompassing work in manufacturing, trading, forwarding and third-party service provision companies, and focusing primarily on the purchasing and distribution sectors.
Ian holds a BA Degree in Economics, French and German, is a fully qualified teacher of adults in further education, and a teacher of English as a Foreign Language.
Ian has increased his concentration on academic roles in recent years, through teaching, tutoring and examination work. His current activities include teaching English as a foreign language to overseas students, tutoring students on purchasing and distribution courses, writing examination questions and marking completed papers (Institute of Export), and translating between English and German. He is also a member of the Institute of Export.
Joe Rose
Joe tutors on some of our Advanced Certificate courses. Joe has had more than forty years' experience in the administration, shipping and financial aspects of international trade, and has dealt with a wide range of the problems encountered therein.
He has also been both a part time lecturer and home study tutor for more than twenty years, preparing students for the examinations of the Institute of Export and Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, and lecturing on degree courses also. The subjects he has covered all relate to international trade and include transport and documentation, financing, legal aspects, and international purchasing.
Joe has been responsible for the revision and updating of a number of international trade courses, and is the author of the current CTC course in Finance and International Trade. He has served on the Committee of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Institute of Export in various capacities, and as an Education Officer he organised a students' quiz for more than twenty years.
Joe is a Fellow of the Institute of Export and Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
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