Marina Apaydin is an associate professor of management at The American University in Cairo with over a decade of teaching experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Apaydin holds a PhD degree in strategic management and innovation from the Western University (Canada), an MBA in finance and international business & an MA in Islamic studies, both from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), & a MS in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) from the Leningrad Electrical Engineering University (LETI). Before moving to academia, Dr. Apaydin held a position of the deputy director for management at UNESCO’s World Heritage Center in Paris, which had culminated two decades of her prior professional experience in finance, business consulting, & marketing in several industries across Europe, the Middle East, & the USA. Dr. Apaydin developed and published the 3A framework for critical thinking, which later served as a basis for Contemporary Management textbook by McGrawHill. It also became a way of life for hundreds of her students who adopted this acronym for their alumni association. She taught strategic and cross-cultural management, innovation, international business, decision-making, change management, team-building, and business communications and delivered workshops on case writing, teaching, and learning to professors and students at several universities in Canada, Turkey, China, Egypt, and Lebanon. Dr. Apaydin works in English, French, Italian, Russian, & Arabic.