M.A., Emory University
A.B., Centre College of Kentucky
Mac Watson currently serves as a lecturer in the BW Carmel Boyer School of Business primarily teaching Introduction to Business, Introduction to Management and Business Communications. He previously served as director of the international MBA program at Baldwin Wallace.
He has served BW for the past 35 years, the first 10 years as director of the English as a Second Language program, the next 15 years as director of the international MBA program, and the last 10 years retired, still teaching business and communication courses on the Berea campus and bi-annually at our partner institution in Brazil.
With more than seven years of experience living and working abroad, Watson has supervised the training and education of more than 2,500 professionals and business executives from 55 countries and has served as a military translator for the U.S. Army in Saigon, as an exchange professor in Tokyo and Curitiba, Brazil, and as guest lecturer at universities in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, China, India, Chile, Turkey, South Africa, The Netherlands and Ireland.
Watson is a past member of the advisory board of the Japan-America Academic Center (Tokyo, Japan and Irvine, California) and past member of the National Commission on Accreditation for TESOL (Alexandria, VA), drafting language training standards for U.S. graduate business schools nationwide.
He has presented extensively on the topic of English as the Language of International Business and continues to explore the implications of that theme, both in and out of the classroom.