Professor Panayotis Zamaros — Academic & Professional Profile

Professor Panayotis Zamaros, PhD, is an experienced administrator, consultant, Founder and Managing Director of IHBA (Institute for Hotel and Business Administration, Lausanne), and experienced educator with over 47 years of teaching, having started in 1978. He has been professionally involved for more than 25 years in the business and management of educational organizations, with a focus on strategic management, faculty management and development, recruitment, marketing, advertising, and events management.

His contribution has focused on educational quality assurance, including ISO certifications (9001, 29990), validations with British universities (University of Essex Business School) and organizations (IMCA), and accreditations with CAIS, ACBSP (Certified Peer Evaluator since 2013), IACBE, SQS eduQua 21, ATHEA, and AAQ.

He is currently Academic Counsellor at IFM Business School (Geneva), responsible for quality assurance and accreditation management, faculty coordination, academic affairs, student and career counselling, and library management.

For the past 30 years, he has taught business and hotel administration at bachelor's and master's levels in Swiss higher education institutions in the Lake Geneva region. His academic affiliations include IFM University (Geneva), Pepperdine University (Lausanne campus), Neuchâtel Junior College, Montreux School of Business, Schiller International University (Leysin), and hotel schools such as SHMS (Caux), Vatel (Martigny), and IHBA (Lausanne).

A keen researcher and thinker, he has supervised master's and doctoral research at SZABIST (Pakistan), AGSB (Switzerland), and ECMU (Belgium), and regularly serves as external examiner for doctoral work in management and economics at several universities in Pakistan, including SZABIST, Abasyn University, Capital University, Qurtuba University, and Riphah International University. He is a member of the editorial board of the Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts (Atiner) and Patron of the International Journal of Organizational Behavior & Management Perspectives (Pezzotaite Journals).

Professor Zamaros holds a Ph.D. from Fairfax University (2004), with a dissertation on organizational behavior, management, and multidisciplinary philosophy. He also completed M.Phil. research at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (2013) in existential philosophy, focusing on the question of being from Parmenides to Heidegger. He holds an M.A. in Education (1999), of equivalent level to the Swiss Federal Trainer Diploma, and a B.Sc. (Hons 2.1) in Social Sciences (1997), both from The Open University, as well as a PgDip in Venture Creation from the Institut pour la création d'entreprise (Lausanne, 1999).

After his first publications in the 1990s, Professor Zamaros continued producing major works, culminating in Demythifying Management among Others (2003), From Apousia to Apousia: Difference (2007), Organizational Behavioral Studies: The Relational Approach (2011), The Faces of Parmenides (2011), Myths as Logical Descriptions of Experience (2012), Organizational Behavior Studies: A Course & Toolkit (2016), Swiss Business and Contract Law (2017), Swiss Contract and Business Law (2018), and Droit suisse des contrats et des affaires (2019). He has also written numerous book reviews, course notes, and workbooks for his students.

In parallel, Professor Zamaros has been active in the music industry for over twenty years. He founded and managed Studio Twenty (Vevey) for 24 years, and later developed Zamaros Musique (Belmont), which included the Belmont Rock School & Conservatory (active until 2022) and the Music Groove instrument shop (active until 2023). As CEO, he managed operations including marketing, staffing, finance, e-commerce, and product distribution. Read here the story of this extraordinary venture: L'empire musical familial des Zamaros.

His experience in business development, combined with extensive legal practice—often provided on a pro bono basis—has informed his teaching and advisory work in law for over 30 years.

An entrepreneur and institution-builder, he has contributed to the founding of several educational institutions — including IHBA, MSB, and GHBTI — as well as multiple business ventures, notably Zamaros Musique.