Prof Riyad Eid earned his PhD in Internet Marketing from Bradford University (UK) in 2003. Prof Eid is the founding and current editor-in-chief for the International Journal Customer Relationship Marketing, Management, and Editor in Chief: International Journal of Disruptive Innovation in Government (Emerald Journal funded by the UAE Government Prime Minister's Office). He held various academic positions in UK and UAE. Prof Eid taught different undergraduate and graduate (master and Doctoral courses). He is specialized in the area Tourism & Hospitality Marketing. Riyad authored or co-authored 118 scientific papers in high impact factor journals. He has successfully supervised more than 100 Master’s level dissertations and 19 PhD and DBA students at the UAEU. Prof Eid secured 15 research grants from different national and international funding organizations totaling approximately 2 Million AED. Prof Riyad Eid’s research has been funded by grants from South Staffordshire Local Education Authority Fund for research project “Community Engagement”, Wolverhampton University- UK, Ajman Executive Council, Abu Dhabi Municipality, National Research Foundation (NRF), UAEU and University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R., China. Professor Riyad Eid has been featured in the list of “World Ranking of Top 2% Researchers” in the 2021and 2022 databases created by experts at Stanford University, USA. He also received many awards, including the award for the best research published by the global publisher Emerald (twice), the award for the best researcher and the best teacher at the United Arab Emirates University (five times) and the university best teaching award. Finally, Professor Eid has provided many consultancy and training services in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and China.