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Duke Corporate Education
310 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701
USA

Sam Bruce

Project Director

Sam Bruce is a Project Director with Duke Corporate Education. He joined Duke University in April 1997 as an Assistant Dean in Executive Education at the Fuqua School of Business. For several years he managed the Program for Manager Development (PMD) and worked closely with the E.L. Wiegand Foundation in Reno, Nevada to provide fellowships to PMD for qualified managers from Poland and Slovakia.

He has managed customized programs for Citibank, Compaq, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ericsson, GlaxoSmithKline, ITT Automotive, LG, Lafarge, The New York Times Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat, Rio Tinto, Siemens AG, and Visteon (Ford Motor Company). Sam has consulted with GE and Motorola and in June 2002 was a speaker in a symposium on global education and competitiveness at the Riga Business School in Riga, Latvia.

Sam managed overseas programs for the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) from 1988 through 1997. He directed programs in Taipei, Taiwan in 1993 and in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1988 through 1992. He was the Resident Director from 1984 through 1986 of the SUNY-Buffalo English Language Center in Dalian, China, which supported its pioneering MBA program at the Dalian Institute of Technology-the first MBA in the People's Republic of China.

From 1994 through April of 1997 he served as Assistant Dean for Administration at the Riga Business School in Riga, Latvia and was an adjunct assistant professor in the SUNY-Buffalo School of Management. He taught the Human Resources Management course in the Riga Business School MBA program.

Sam earned his MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MA in English from San Francisco State University. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Clemson University. He enjoys running, gardening, reading and being a full-time dad. He lives in Durham with his wife, Ita, and their three children Dita, Spencer and Robert.