Former Anheuser-Busch executive Steve Burrows has been named director of the International Business Institute at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Most recently, Burrows, 57, was CEO and president of Anheuser-Busch International-Asia.

Burrows was a 30-year veteran of Anheuser-Busch. He spent the latter half of that heading up the company’s overseas development in places including the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, China and India.

Burrow, a native of Albany, N.Y., began working for Anheuser-Busch in 1979 as a sales representative, and worked his way up the sales and marketing ladder.

He was no slouch. By virtue of his strong work overseeing Anheuser-Busch’s operations in China, one analyst told Lager Heads that Burrows could be a strong candidate for the job of Anhesuer-Busch president once InBev took over. It didn’t happen - Burrows left A-B after the transaction. But you get the point.

Burrows has served on the advisory board of UMSL’s International Business Institute since 2000. The Institute supports the school’s international undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

“International business is and will remain an important area for business development for many companies,” Burrows said in a statement.

Keith Womer, dean of UMSL’s College of Business Administration at UMSL, called Burrows “an outstanding asset”for the program.

As Lager Heads‘ Irish ancestors might have said, “good on ya, Steve!”

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