Chrystel Masdupuy
April 29, 2021
Cast your vote in the 2021 EuroCHRIE Elections
We are seeking you to vote for the following positions:
- Vice President/President-Elect/Immediate Past President (3 year)
- Treasurer (2 Year)
- Secretary
- Director of Member Services and Development (2 year)
- Director of Research (2 year)
You must be a full member and a current paid member of EuroCHRIE. There is only one vote per member. Other votes will be disregarded.
The voting will close on Sunday 13th June 2021 @ 11.59 pm GMT. Votes and membership status will be verified and the successful candidate will be notified.
All candidate details can be found below
Thank you for taking the time to vote.
Chrystel Masdupuy
Chair of the EuroCHRIE Nominating Committee
Vice President
I am very proud to be part of EuroCHRIE and am grateful to have further opportunity to serve, following six years as Industry Director. I have taken a very active role and have attended every EuroCHRIE, ICHRIE and APAC CHRIE conference during this period.
During the COVID pandemic I have contributed a large amount to EuroCHRIE. This began by leading webinars focussed on supporting education and industry. More recently this included managing the technology and being the host for the Virtual Conference. I am well placed to deliver this, due to working with over 200 global hospitality schools and the world’s leading hotel groups as Chief Operating Officer for RPT.
We must drive forward the way we work with both academia and industry to further support our membership and the value we deliver. If elected, I commit to the following,
- Develop further value to members through collaboration, networking and support
- Champion education and research across all channels and networks
- Strengthen connections with other federations and across institutions
- Drive forward innovative delivery through online and hybrid formats
Now is the right time to put my name forward to serve as Vice President, as I am passionate about the organisation and ready to serve.
Peter leads all operations and initiatives for Russell Partnership Technology, which includes company strategy, education, finance, sales, marketing, HR, partnerships and being the public face of the company. The company is focused on supporting hospitality education through the development of online programs and simulations. Russell Partnership Technology also work to deliver consultancy with global hotel and hospitality partners.
Peter has spent the last ten years supporting university and college partners around the world in relation to simulation-based learning. This includes curriculum development, instructional design, teaching, training, development and technical support. He is fully embedded within the world of hospitality education and works with partners across five continents.
Peter leads the training team for our collection of industry-leading training, learning and development programs. This includes business simulations, online courses, certifications and bespoke learning environments. All of this is focussed on the hospitality, travel, tourism and events sectors. Peter works tirelessly to continue developing our approach and delivery of learning and development for both industry and academia.
Peter regularly speaks at industry and education conferences worldwide on various topics, including hospitality management, technology, sustainability and revenue management. He is also a very active member of multiple associations worldwide, including CHRIE, The International Society of Hospitality Consultants, HSMAI, The Institute of Hospitality, THE-ICE, and HOSCO.
Treasurer
With great enthusiasm, I stand for re-election for the position of Treasurer of EuroCHRIE and a member of the ICHRIE Finance Committee. The past two years in this position have been challenging on many fronts. The pandemic had a substantial influence on the work of the EuroCHRIE board, the postponing of the planned conference at UCN Aalborg from 2020 to 2021 meant budgetary shortfalls for the association. As we value partnership over cash-flow, sponsorship payments were paused and renegotiated. Thankfully, EuroCHRIE can look back at many years of thoughtful management of their financial resources. The control of finances of the association in a responsible and trustworthy manner is paramount for achieving current and future goals. The funds that are entrusted to the association by our members need to be spent with care and strategic foresight. The past two years have proven that we as a board can stand up to this expectation and I am determined to continue this path for the next two years. While the world, tourism, and tourism education is slowly returning to a new normal, it will be essential to retain the association’s financial viability in order to provide value-add to all its members.
EuroCHRIE has shown itself as a resilient association and responses to all activities that have happened over the past two years show that the work is valued. Despite all challenges we faced during this time, I again reaslized that there is no alternative association to EuroCHRIE of such quality that provides a professional platform for hospitality educators. The development of EuroCHRIE is an ongoing process and I am prepared to continue taking an active part in this.
Over the years, EuroCHRIE has developed into a vibrant network of institutional and individual members. However, institutions are increasingly under financial pressure, other associations and networks compete with us for members, and our current and future members increasingly ask for a value add. The ability of the association to remain the relevant and respected stakeholder in the hospitality and tourism sphere it currently is, is not at last dependent on its financial capabilities. If I am re-elected as treasurer, I will focus on supporting and advising the executive board on activities that enhance the association’s visibility and future growth.
Secretary
I am standing for re-election as Secretary of EuroCHRIE to be able to take a more involved role in the running of the organisation, including voting for proposals that are in Members’ interests and ensuring the sustainability of EuroCHRIE. As the current Secretary, I am responsible for the running of official Board Meetings and Annual General Meetings, the maintenance of records and representing EuroCHRIE on the ICHRIE Bylaws Committee. A belief in diversity, partnership and excellence underpins my work for EuroCHRIE and beyond. Indeed, these three cornerstones of my candidacy for Secretary reflect the very best of EuroCHRIE—something we celebrate every year at conference—and I would welcome the opportunity to serve the Membership, if elected, to bring these values to bear on the evolution of EuroCHRIE.
Director of Member Services & Development
Anglia Ruskin University, London
London, United Kingdom
Anne.Conneally@london.aru.ac.uk
It would be a great honour to serve as the EuroCHRIE’s Director of Membership Services. Having represented the Board as Area Consultant for the UK, I wish to further engage with EuroCHRIE’s membership orientation. I acknowledge that this position requires commitment; meaning a thorough dedication to the current and future direction of EuroCHRIE’s membership services – a role in which I will fully partake. The approach that I aim to take, will ensure current members as well as prospective members: benefit from an excellent experience and reap the rewards associated with being a valued EuroCHRIE member.
The creation of this excellent experience will be catered for and sign posted via three main avenues. These will include: utilising the quality EuroCHRIE on-line platform to share the far-reaching offerings of EuroCHRIE, identifying and targeting a broader audience to encourage engagement and interest – thus protecting the longevity of EuroCHRIE’s standing, status and excellence and finally, mapping out time to understand what current members value, what they require more of and gauge what potential new members hope to avail of via EuroCHRIE membership services.
To fulfil my commitments, I intend to continue to work closely with the EuroCHRIE team and work with the ethos of #Strongertogether.
Anne Conneally works as a Higher Education Consultant with Anglia Ruskin University, London. Her area of specialism pertains to Hospitality Business Management and Human Resource Management. Her academic credentials include a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Sheffield Hallam University, a BSc in Hospitality Management, Dublin Institute of Technology, and an MSc in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, National University Galway, Ireland.
Anne has dedicated working hours to the international hospitality industry, living and working in Ireland, Germany and the United States of America. She has shared her personal, professional and academic knowledge across the globe - delivering at conferences in Lausanne, Berlin, Dublin, and Florida and teaching in Denmark, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and Cologne. Anne has been instrumental in supporting the validation of hospitality programmes at business schools in Mauritius and Vietnam and views these as essential success stories for the future and sustenance of the hospitality industry.
Anne is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, a Fellow of the Institute of Learning and Teaching Academy, CIPD registered and is a certified Emotional Intelligence coach working as a consultant as well as embedding the practice into her teaching.
I have joined EuroCHRIE as an Area Consultant in 2005. I was elected as the Secretary followed by a Vice-President and President in 2010. I was actively involved in the organizing and hosting the 2008 Dubai conference, first time outside Europe. I have been actively participating ICHRIE Deans & Directors meetings since 2019.
Based on my affiliation with EuroCHRIE for a long time, I will be glad to re-join the board and serve again with my experiences and networking within the family.
I will be fostering close cooperation with the related Directors within the Board as well as with the ICHRIE Board to enlarge the membership. I will also focus on increasing members from various types under the new membership scheme.
Having 29 years of extensive experience and broad networking in Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East, Far East and in the USA, he is truly an international expert on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation within global higher education.
He serves as Vice President for CEENQA, Executive Board Member of IQA and YÖDAK. He is an international reviewer and evaluator on internal and external quality assurance and accreditation processes for program and institutional level for many quality assurance agencies within Europe and worldwide.
He is also serving as an advisory board member, accreditation committee member and international strategic council member for some agencies while participating in Quality Assurance related projects within the European Commission as well as World Bank with his teaching, research, accreditation and quality assurance experiences and networking in global higher education area.
Director of Research
Having been at the EuroCHRIE, APacCHRIE and I-CHRIE conferences for many years, it would be a real honour to serve as your Director of Research. In this role I would have three ambitions: (1) making EuroCHRIE attractive for oversees CHRIE researchers whilst remaining a true home for our EuroCHRIE family; (2) facilitating a dialogue between academia and industry to uncover current and actionable ideas for research and practice; and (3) fostering unique research experiences and long-lasting research collaborations, friendships and exchange. To pursue these ambitions, I would utilise my international network of contacts, develop close working relationships with conference hosts, and actively involve myself in each and every research-relevant detail of the conference, in particular the organisation and level of the review process, setting up/drafting parallel sessions, and searching for appropriate moderators, to ensure the best possible conference programme and preparation. Attending all sessions, I will listen to your ideas and experiences. In this way, I will continuously prospect and strive for new conference parts, such as research workshops (e.g., data treatment, data mining, multi-level regression, text analytics, qualitative analysis, NVIVO, etc.), data sharing initiatives, special interest groups, editor / expert meet-ups, and research contests.
Jean-Pierre van der Rest is Professor of Business Administration at Leiden University, one of Europe’s leading research universities. He previously served as a Professor, Research Director and Associate Dean at Hotelschool The Hague. Jean-Pierre received a PhD in Business from Oxford Brookes University (Oxford School of Hospitality Management), a MA in Managerial Economics from University of Durham (Department of Economics and Finance), and a BBA in Hotel Administration from the Hotel Management School Maastricht. His research focuses on pricing decision-making and revenue optimization in the hotel and restaurant industry. He currently is editor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research (JHTR), along with Prof. Li Miao and Prof. Peter Kim, and has won several research awards. Jean-Pierre has taught in Bachelor, Master, MBA, and Executive Education programs, has chaired accreditations, and has been an external examiner, external advisor, and a visiting professor at various international business schools. Recipient of various competitive research grants, he actively promotes research and teaching excellence.
Chrystel Masdupuy
April 29, 2021
Last updated on June 17, 2021
