dialogin The Delta Intercultural Academy is edited by Peter Franklin. Born in Dover and educated at Cambridge University, UK, Professor Franklin teaches and researches on language, communication and culture in international business and management at Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

There he works on the BA course in Asian Studies and Management, the MA on International Management Asia and the MBA’s on General Management, Human Capital Management and Compliance and Corporate Governance.

He is also co-founder and director of the KIeM Institute for Intercultural Management, Values and Communication, Konstanz.

With Jeremy Comfort he co-authored The Mindful International Manager. How to Work Effectively across Cultures and with Helen Spencer-Oatey Intercultural Interaction. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Coommunication.

In addition to his university work, since 1989 Peter Franklin has advised, trained, coached and addressed numerous corporate and institutional clients in the area of intercultural communication, co-operation and management. Specialisations in recent years have been post-merger integration, change management, multicultural team-building and developing intercultural leadership and management competence.

A noteworthy development project he was responsible for concerned the localisation and testing of the German version of the successful intercultural competence development tool, The International Profiler - for which Peter Franklin is a licensed consultant - in cooperation with its creators at WorldWork Ltd., London.

Peter Franklin’s research interests concern language, culture and communication in international business and management. He is currently editing a collection of case-studies of intercultural management and contributing to a book on change management. Among completed projects are a government-funded investigation of Anglo-German management cooperation and, on behalf of the European Commission, a 12-nation study into the development of intercultural competence in the context of foreign language education. 

In the area of media development, Peter Franklin has a record of innovative concept and content development including CD-ROM self-study products and blended learning applications.