Prof. Ross Bennie

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Prof. Ross Bennie Dozent

Contact hours Monday afternoon
Tuesday morning
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Address Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Marketing & Global Management
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern

First things first: Bennie is my *surname*, so please call me Ross.

As I was growing up in Scotland, I never knew what job I wanted to do. I did know what job I didn’t want: with two teachers as parents, I didn’t want to be a teacher. Going to university in the mid ‘80s – Thatcher’s Britain – was all about getting a job after your degree. So I made the biggest mistake of my life and chose electronics (which seemed expedient) instead of geography (which I was interested in and good at).

After a fairly dreary four years at uni I then spent nine even drearier years in IT. Working for the electronics arm of the McLaren Formula 1 team sounds glamorous, but wasn’t. I only got out by getting married. My wife (also from Scotland) got a job at the internet division of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation; over 20 years and two kids later, we’re still here.

1984-88 BSc Electronics & Electrical Engineering University of Edinburgh
2005-07 Master's Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages University of Cambridge / International House
2010 Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik BFH