Susan Fournier
Susan Fournier, ICHRIE President 2011-2012, is currently the Leadership Programme Director at Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland, where she has been teaching Hospitality Management for the past 17 years. She is a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) since 2002 and completed her MSc with Manchester Metropolitan University. Raised in the USA then living and teaching in Europe for the past 30 years, she has had the opportunity to work with students and colleagues from many nations in a very multicultural environment. She fully appreciates the value of the global network of educators and the internationalization ICHRIE fosters.
Having participated at EuroCHRIE and ICHRIE conferences for the past twelve years, her initial contribution to ICHRIE was to serve on the CAHM accreditation board from 2005-2008 and on the Board of EuroCHRIE from 2007-2010, initially as Director of Conferences and later as Director of Networking. Participation in ICHRIE has provided additional motivation to develop as an educator and provides the opportunity to meet, learn from and share research interests with colleagues from around the world as well as the opportunity to make some wonderful friends over the years.
