Faculty and Staff Profile
Cynthia Zhao
Faculty/Departments:
Business Administration
Positions/Titles:
Faculty
Area of Expertise: Business
I started working as a post-secondary instructor in 1994 and have been passionate
about teaching from then on. My subjects of teaching cover most business courses in
marketing, management and international business.
After a decade of teaching and researching in Chinese universities, I moved to Canada
in 2006. I spent two years at the University of British Columbia, taking some graduate
courses in Environmental Sustainability and doing research at the same time. I started
full-time teaching again in 2008, with two years in the Business Program at College
of the Rockies and five years at J.R. Shaw School of Business, Northern Alberta Institute
of Technology.
I joined North Island College in 2015 and have been enjoying my work and life in the
Comox Valley ever since. On this very close-knit and yet also diverse Comox Valley
campus, I feel it a great pleasure to be able to share with students from all over
the world my knowledge and experiences in business administration. It is also hugely
rewarding that I am able to learn and develop myself during my process of teaching.