Our Leadership
Spend your next few years studying at a center of intensive scholarship and taking advantage of our multidimensional academic experience.
Antonis Charalambides
Honorary President
Excellence in hospitality, travel, tourism and culinary arts education is the hallmark of COTHM. Imparting international standard education and training is our passion, which runs through the entire network of our campuses across Pakistan. Through collaborations with our international academic partners, we continuously update our quality standards to address the changing requirements of the international hospitality industry in the modern world. We inspire students to learn with passion in the most favorable and conducive learning environment, which leads them to become a part of the international hospitality industry.

Ahmad Shafiq
Founder & CEO, COTHM Pakistan & Dubai.
I warmly welcome you to the College of Tourism & Hotel Management (COTHM), the leading hotel school of Pakistan. Being aware of the global requirements and standards of trained human resource in this ever-expanding industry of hospitality, travel, tourism and culinary arts, COTHM has been ensuring that its students receive internationally recognised education and training. With regard to that, COTHM works with its leading international academic partners. Today, an education and training award from COTHM is highly regarded in the industry. To provide the maximum number of people with educational opportunities in this field, COTHM Group of Colleges has expanded its network to all major cities of Pakistan. We are committed to serve the hospitality; travel, tourism and culinary industry by producing world-class professionals. Education is a lifelong experience, Hospitality, travel, tourism and culinary arts programs at COTHM facilitate that process with progression through flexible entry and exit routes. While the attainment of educational awards are important, personality development is another facet of a student’s education that COTHM provides with responsibility. I hope you will find your time at COTHM to be intellectually stimulating, enriching and a rewarding learning experience.

Management
Samina Shafiq
Director
Zaheer Ahmad
COO, COTHM Pakistan & Dubai
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2002, and received tenure there in 2007. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
Contacts:
Muhammad Jamil
Registrar, COTHM International
With over four decades of law teaching experience, Johnny Jones is a nationally-recognized constitutionalist who has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the first-ever Pioneer Award for his commitment and dedication to students from the FIU Student Bar Association in 2004. Since then, students have voted him “Professor of the Year” multiple times.
Contacts:
Omar Arshad
CFO, COTHM International
Dennis Ruiz was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law, where she held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the University conferred. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Greece in 1992.
Contacts:
Babar Sheikh
Dir. International Development, COTHM International
Vernon Lowe first joined the University in 2006 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. He served as Assistant Dean until 2013, when he became a full time lecturer at the College. He teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions.
Contacts:
Nadeem Anwar
Director Projects, COTHM International
Contacts:
Harriet Erickson
Vice President, Student Affairs
Wesley Clark was named Senior Advisor to the President in May 2018. An expert in corporate law, he teaches a wide range of courses including Contracts, Sales, Closely Held Business Organizations, Publicly Traded Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law and International Securities Regulation.
Contacts:
Wesley Clarke
Senior Advisor to the President
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2002, and received tenure there in 2007. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
Contacts:
Betty Bowman
Acting Vice President for Finance
With over four decades of law teaching experience, Johnny Jones is a nationally-recognized constitutionalist who has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the first-ever Pioneer Award for his commitment and dedication to students from the FIU Student Bar Association in 2004. Since then, students have voted him “Professor of the Year” multiple times.
Contacts:
Johnny Jones
Dean, Diversity and Compliance
Dennis Ruiz was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law, where she held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the University conferred. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Greece in 1992.
Contacts:
Dennis Ruiz
Acting Vice President of Administration
Vernon Lowe first joined the University in 2006 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. He served as Assistant Dean until 2013, when he became a full time lecturer at the College. He teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions.
Contacts:
Vernon Lowe
Assistant Vice President for Communications