Dr. Daniel Rottig is an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategic Management in the Management Department of the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He has published in such journals as Thunderbird International Business Review, Management International Review, Decision Sciences Journal, the Academy of Management Learning and Education and other respected outlets and has received several awards and award-nominations for his scholarly work from leading academic institutions, including the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management. Daniel is a passionate educator whose goal is to help students understand the global business environment and how to strategically manage firms in international markets. He teaches in the undergraduate, graduate and Executive MBA programs of the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University, in the Executive MBA program at Florida Atlantic University and he has taught in the graduate and executive programs at California State University, Long Beach, in the post-graduate program at the at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) as a visiting faculty, and in the doctoral program at Abu Dhabi University in the UAE as an external reviewer and dissertation advisor.

He is an early adopter and long-time contributor to the X-Culture project and his students consistently rank among the top performers in the world. He had a student each on the winning team of the 2013 X-Culture Home Deport Challenge at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and the 2014 X-Culture Louis Vuitton Challenge at FIU in Miami, a student on the top 10 teams in the 2015 X-Culture JCB Challenge at Savannah State in Georgia as well as a student on the #1 ranked team out of more than 4,000 students from around the world in the most recent, 2015 X-Culture season. As conference and chapter chair of the Academy of International Business Southeast USA (AIB-SE), Daniel has started the X-Culture involvement in the annual AIB-SE conferences in 2012, which have since become a key annual event for X-Culture activities and the annual X-Culture competition of the best students from around the globe. Daniel has further worked with corporate partners to get them involved in the X-Culture project, such as Forcier Consulting from Africa.