Day One: Monday 7 November

08:50

Registration, refreshments and networking

09:40

Welcome

In this opening session the results of the 2022 Annual Membership Survey will be released.

Anne Kiem OBE, Chief Executive, Chartered ABS

Professor Robert MacIntosh, Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

10:10

Keynote Panel Discussion: Nurturing prosperity and purpose: the role of business schools

In this session a high-level panel explores how business schools are being challenged to develop future leaders who are equipped with the skills, behaviours and knowledge to both get ‘transactional business’ done, and look beyond the financial bottom line and navigate the complex intersectionality of people, planet and profit. The Panel will also consider how UK business schools are helping to tackle global challenges, and support UK business and society through their teaching, research and business engagement.

Lord Dr Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE, Chair, SOAS Board of Trustees; Professor of Leadership, Huntsman Business School

Juergen Maier CBE, Industrialist; Chair, Digital Catapult; former Chief Executive, Siemens UK

Professor Alison Wolf CBE, King’s Business School, King's College London

Moderator: Professor Julia Bennell, Executive Dean, Leeds University Business School

11:10

Morning break and networking

Breakout sessions

11:50 - 13:00

The evolution of the purpose-led business school

This session extends discussions around how business schools are embracing and enhancing their contributions to the ‘public good’. Particular attention will be paid to the practical ways in which business schools are contributing to the civic engagement priorities of their parent universities; and how business school activity is being informed by the recommendations of the 2021 Chartered ABS Taskforce ‘Business schools and the public good’ (click here).

Sarah Gillard
Chief Executive Officer, A Blueprint for Better Business

Professor M.N. Ravishankar
Dean, Queen’s Management School

Christopher Cowton
Associate Director, Institute of Business Ethics & Emeritus Professor, Huddersfield Business School

Dr Lisa McIlvenna
Deputy Managing Director, Business in the Community Northern Ireland

Chair: Professor Peter McKiernan
Professor of Management, University of Strathclyde

Tackling grand challenges through business school research and innovation

This session explores the multifaceted nature of the ‘grand challenges’ facing business, government, and society; and innovative ways in which business schools can contribute to interdisciplinary research endeavours, help to translate invention into innovation and inform business strategy and government policymaking.

Dean Cook
Executive Lead for Place and Levelling Up, Innovate UK

Professor Bob Doherty
Dean, School for Business and Society, University of York

Professor Jan Godsell
Dean, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Professor Alison Truelove
Director of the Centre for Innovation in Business Education, University of Exeter Business School

Chair: Professor Caroline Gatrell
Associate Dean, Research
University of Liverpool Management School

Reflecting changing student expectations in learning & teaching strategy

This session explores how student expectations of more flexible, personalised education is influencing business and management education; and the opportunities and challenges associated with delivering the desired learning at scale and within a reasonable cost.

Professor Delphine Manceau
Dean, NEOMA Business School

Dr Cathy Minett-Smith
Dean, Learning and Teaching, College of Business and Law, University of the West of England

Elaine Clarke
College Director of Education and Students, Lincoln International Business School

Lewis McKinnon
Head of Partner Development UK and Europe
Studiosity

Chair: Professor Kamil Omoteso
Pro Vice-Chancellor/Dean, College of Business, Law and Social Science, University of Derby; Member, Chartered ABS Council

New ways of working: finding the right approach for your team

This session reflects on the sort of working arrangements that academic and professional services staff are seeking from their institutions, and about what business school leaders can do to create working arrangements that work for both individual staff and the institution as a whole.

Dr Deirdre Anderson
Director, Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Research Centre (GLIC), Cranfield School of Management

David Stannard
Director of Administration, Henley Business School

Catherine Creane
Director, Currie and Brown

Chair: Professor Mohammad Ali
Dean, School of Business and Law, University of East London; Member, Chartered ABS Council

Addressing the tension between international travel and sustainability

This session explores the various ways in which business schools are seeking to resolve the tension between staff and student international travel, and opportunities in transnational education; and the commitments to sustainability and the reduction of carbon footprints.

Professor Monika Foster
Head, Sunderland Business School, University of Sunderland

Professor Amir M. Sharif
Dean & Professor of Circular Economy, University of Bradford 

Michelle Stewart
Head of Internationalisation, University of Strathclyde; President, EAIE (European Association for International Education)

Jennifer Wilkinson
Director of Student Recruitment & Business Development, London Metropolitan University

Chair: Professor Simon Mercado
Executive Vice President (Business & External Relations), ESCP Business School; Chair, Chartered ABS International Committee

Recruiting business school faculty in a competitive marketplace

This session explores the current experiences of securing academic and professional services staff. Particular attention will be paid to the subject areas for which it is particularly hard to recruit, and the steps that can be taken by business schools to create healthy recruitment pipelines (particularly for junior, underrepresented and international staff), and differentiate their offers from competitors.

Professor Claire Mallanaphy
Associate Dean -Undergraduate, Finance and Accounting, University of Liverpool Management School

Kiersten Avery
Partner, Anderson Quigley

Professor Morris Altman
Dean, University of Dundee School of Business

Professor Rachel Ashworth
Dean and Head of School, Cardiff Business School

Chair: Professor Stewart Robinson
Dean, Newcastle University Business School; Member, Chartered ABS Council

13:00

Lunch

14:20

Welcome back

Anne Kiem OBE, Chief Executive, Chartered ABS

Professor Robert MacIntosh, Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

14:30

Keynote Panel Discussion: Rethinking business and management education for a volatile global market

Business schools are responsible for offering an ever-wider range of programmes, delivered in increasingly varied ways to an ever broader, more diverse, and more dispersed student body. In this session a high-level international panel explores how the higher education ecosystem is evolving and the innovative ways in which business and management education is being delivered.  

Maryke Luijendijk-Steenkamp
Assistant Vice-President, DIFC Academy, Dubai International Financial Centre

Charles Moses, Dean, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific

Simon Nelson, Chief Executive, QA Higher Education

Vicki Stott, Chief Executive, QAA

Chair: Professor Robert MacIntosh, Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

15:30

Afternoon break and networking

Breakout Sessions

16:10 - 17:20

Supporting early career researchers and junior lecturers from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds

This session reflects on the challenges facing junior staff from underrepresented backgrounds; and on the ways in which business school leaders can support staff through incorporating EDI objectives in strategic plans, including underrepresented staff in leadership decisions, creating ‘safe spaces’ for candid dialogue and other ways.

Professor Patricia Kingori
Professor of Global Health Ethics, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford

Professor Dilshad Sheikh
Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic); Dean of the Faculty of Business, Arden University

Terrill L. Drake
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Harvard Business School

Professor Kemi Yekini
Professor of Accounting, School of Finance and Management, SOAS University of London

Chair: Dr Geethanjali Selvaretnam
Deputy Head of School, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow; Chair, Chartered ABS EDI Committee

The contribution of business schools to regional enterprise and business ecosystems

This session explores how business schools, in particular holders of the Small Business Charter, are increasingly networked with their local business communities; and the variety of ways in which they are supporting small and medium sized businesses.

James Gardiner
Director of Employability, Norwich Business School

Sarah Lethbridge
Pro Dean of External Engagement
Cardiff Business School

Professor Yingqi (Annie) Wei
Deputy Pro Dean for Research & Innovation, Leeds University Business School

Dr Shobana Nair Partington
Head of Department, Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Joe Marshall
Chief Executive, NCUB

Chair: Michael Hayman MBE
Co-Founder, Seven Hills; Chair, Small Business Charter Management Board

Post-experience education: Creating differentiation in a burgeoning market for lifelong learning

This session explores how the market for post-experience education and lifelong learning is being shaped by changing client needs; disrupted by new providers (in particular edtech); and is creating new opportunities for business schools. Particular attention will be paid to the changing demand for, and the development of, flexible learning experiences; the opportunities for business schools to collaborate with other providers as co-creators of content; and the skills and behaviours that are needed by faculty for new opportunities in this space to be realised.

Dr Nick Mount
Academic Director, University of Nottingham Online

Andy Poole
Director of Partnerships, Coursera for Campus, Coursera

Mike Ratcliffe
Academic Registrar, formerly Nottingham Trent University

Dr Annabel Kiernan
Pro Vice Chancellor Education, Staffordshire University

Twenty Third Deans’ Meeting

This meeting is solely for Deans from Chartered ABS member business schools. It is an opportunity for frank and free-flowing discussion on topics of common interest. This is the latest in the series of meetings which commenced in April 2020. All discussion is under the Chatham House Rule.

Chair: Professor Robert MacIntosh
Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

Accreditations & affiliations: reviewing the place of external affirmations for business school strategy

This session explores the ways in which accreditations, global networks and other bodies are used by UK business schools to support external and internal aims and objectives.

Professor Eileen McAuliffe
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Executive Dean, Birmingham City Business School

Dr Alex Hope,
Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University

Dr Emm Barnes
Director of Professional Services Transformation and Strategic Project Manager, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Eleftherios Alamanos
Director of Accreditation, Newcastle University Business School

Chair: Professor Debra Leighton
HE Consultant; former Dean, University of Bedfordshire Business School

The changing dynamics of international student flows

This session explores the factors that are influencing inbound and outbound international student flows; the extent to which the new opportunities surfaced by the pandemic (for example for virtual mobility and the creation of online communities of learners) are being realised; and the ways in which business schools are supporting the international mobility of research students.

Jacqueline Jenkins
Global Relationship Manager (Education), British Council.

Dr Omolabake Fakunle
Director, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh

Lindsay Marie Nygren (PGR)
Co-Chair Student Advisory Group, UKCISA

Chair: Polly Derbyshire
Head of Bath Business School, Bath Spa University

17:20 - 18:00

Chartered ABS Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Representatives of full member business schools are welcome to attend the AGM, even if they are not otherwise coming to the Annual Conference. International, corporate and affiliate members are also entitled to attend.

Each full member business school has one vote at the AGM which is exercised by their nominated voting representative (or, if the voting representative is absent, by a deputy, nominated by the voting representative). Please advise us of any changes in voting representatives or nomination of deputies by emailing daniel.walsh@charteredabs.org by 16:00 on Monday 31 October 2022.

If you would like to attend the AGM and are not otherwise going to be at the Annual Conference, please let us know by emailing daniel.walsh@charteredabs.org by Monday 31 October.

From 19:00

Drinks Reception & Annual Conference Gala Dinner

The Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner takes place at the Hilton Waldorf Hotel and is an excellent opportunity for informal networking with fellow attendees. The evening commences at 19:00 with a Drinks Reception and Dinner will be served at 20:00.

Dinner will be proceeded by a Dinner Address from the Rt Hon. Professor Lord David Blunkett, Co-Chair, Higher Education Commission.

Day Two: Tuesday 8 November

08:50

Registration and refreshments

09:20

Welcome

Anne Kiem OBE, Chief Executive, Chartered ABS

Professor Robert MacIntosh, Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

09:40

Keynote Panel Discussion: Transitioning to sustainability: business schools and a global imperative

In this session a high-level panel explores the extent to which students, educators, governments and businesses are requiring business schools, and their parent universities, to deliver education that addresses the sustainability agenda; and how business schools are responding to these demands and weaving sustainability into teaching, research and other aspects of school strategy.

Professor David Grayson CBE, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management

Dr Katrin Muff, Director, Institute for Business Sustainability and Professor of Practice, LUISS Business School

Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy

David Schofield, Director of Sustainability, Aviva

Moderator: Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE, Associate Principal, University of Strathclyde

10:40

Morning break and networking

Breakout Sessions

11:20 - 12:30

Supporting the professional development and career advancement of business and management educators

This session explores the skills, knowledge and behaviours that business school teaching staff need to be effective educators and to enable career advancement; and about how business school leaders can help the development of their teaching staff through continuous professional development, and through the creation of promotion pathways that recognise and reward teaching excellence.

Dr Barbara Banda
Adjunct Professor; former Professor of Practice and Client and Programme Director, Hult International Business School

Dr Ross Espinoza
Senior Learning Experience Designer, PwC; Chair, Staff Development Forum

Professor Heather McLaughlin
Pro Vice-Chancellor Research & Academic Staff Development; Dean Faculty of Business & Law, De Montfort University; Member, Chartered ABS Council

Professor Liz Warren
Head of International
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Chair: Dr Adam Shore
Director, School of Business and Management, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University

Supporting staff and student financial and mental wellbeing during a cost-of-living crisis

This session explores the key principles for supporting student and staff health and wellbeing. Particular attention will be paid to the actions that can be taken by business schools to support the financial wellbeing during the current cost-of-living crisis.

Andy Bell
Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health

Dr Denise Meyer
Director of Student Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University

Nathalie Podder
Deputy President (Welfare), Imperial College Union

Chair: Dr Jummy Okoya
Senior Lecturer, Organisation Behaviour & HRM; Chair, UEL Women’s Network & Athena Swan Lead

Delivering future-oriented business & management education: innovation and reinvention

This session offers insights into how business schools (individually and collaboratively) are refining curricula to prepare students for workplaces of the future. For example, how business education is being given an increasingly digital emphasis; and the use of interdisciplinary teaching to prepare students to deal with the multifaceted problems.

Ed Fidoe
Chief Executive, The London Interdisciplinary School

Professor Gregory Prastacos
Dean, School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology; Lead Investigator, MaCuDE

Dr Frederique Bouilheres
Nottingham University Business School

Stuart Osborne
Associate, Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI)

Chair: Professor Jill Johnes
Dean, Huddersfield Business School

Supporting disadvantaged students and tackling award gaps

This session reflects on how business schools are striving for inclusive education. Particular attention will be paid to nuanced challenges including the tackling ‘hidden’ attainment gaps; supporting digital inclusion; educating staff about inclusive educational practices; identifying and using relevant metrics to assess and monitor success; and the issues of intersectionality in that there is no single ‘disadvantaged student’ but a multiplicity of experiences.

Rosalind Goates
Head of Advocacy and Campaigns, The Social Mobility Foundation

Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE
Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter

Dr. Kendi Guantai
University Co-Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) University of Leeds Business School

Dr Mazia Yassim
Head of School, Management and Marketing, University of Greenwich

Chair: Sally Everett
Vice Dean and Professor of Business Education, King’s Business School

Sustainability education: innovations in pedagogy and teaching practice

This deep-dive session builds on the discussions of the preceding panel discussion and explores the practical ways in which business schools are creating new pedagogies/approaches to delivering sustainability education at UG, PG and post-experience level. We will explore how both new courses are being developed and sustainability is being interwoven across the curriculum.

Emerita Professor Angela Druckman
Professor of Sustainable Consumption and Production, University of Surrey

Professor Alexandra Gerbasi
Dean, University of Exeter Business School

Professor Vijay Reddy
Professor of Sustainable SME Growth, Birmingham City Business School

Professor Vera Trappmann
Director of Sustainability, Leeds University Business School

Chair: Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Business, British School of Fashion, GCU London

Roundtable Discussions

In this unconference session participants will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive roundtable discussion. Each discussion will focus on one of the questions outlined below and participants will have the option to select their roundtable discussion topic ahead of the event.

• How should business schools adapt their buildings to meet current and future needs of staff and students?
• How can business schools best mange their operations and finances in the face of rising energy costs and inflation?
• How can business schools approach difficult decisions associated with managing restructurings and reorganisations?
• How business school leaders should approach difficult conversations with Vice Chancellors?
• How is the recruitment landscape for domestic students evolving and what do business schools need to consider in their outreach activities?
• What should business schools be doing now to prepare for generation alpha?
• How are changes in the apprenticeships landscape (eg new providers and changes to the levy) impacting the apprenticeships being delivered by business schools?
• How can business schools deliver better graduate outcomes for international students?
• Centralisation vs localisation: How should professional services functions be organised?

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Keynote panel: Being a leader in turbulent times

The closing Keynote Session of the conference brings together a top-flight panel to explore the behaviours, competencies and skills that Deans and leaders of UK business schools need in order to effectively manage business school teams; deliver strategy and work with stakeholders.

Jane Egerton-Idehen, Head of Sales, Middle East and Africa, Meta

Laura Hinton, Management Board Member and Tax Leader, PwC UK; Executive Fellow, Kings Business School

Professor Baback Yazdani, Executive Dean, Nottingham Business School

Moderator: Professor Toni Hilton, Dean, School of Business and Law, University of Brighton

15:00

Close of conference

Confirmed speakers include:

Dr Eleftherios Alamanos
Director of Accreditation, Newcastle University Business School

Eleftherios Alamanos is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and the Director of Accreditation of Newcastle University Business School, UK, leading the School’s Triple Accreditation Crown. Eleftherios is also a member of the School’s Executive Board. He is also currently serving as external examiner at Cranfield University, UK, and he is a member of the British Academy of Marketing. Eleftherios was awarded a PhD in Consumer Behaviour and Food Marketing from Newcastle University, a Postgraduate Taught and Undergraduate Degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research focusses on interventions in consumer behaviour informing various aspects of the current academic debate in marketing and in retailing. Specifically, his work examines the role of technology on individuals' everyday activities in general, and in the context of retailing in particular, and their interrelationships with social exclusion and wellbeing.

Professor Mohammad Ali
Dean, School of Business and Law, University of East London; Member, Chartered ABS Council

Professor Morris Altman
Dean, University of Dundee School of Business

Morris Altman is the Dean of the University of Dundee School of Business and Chair Professor of Behavioral and Institutional Economics and Co-operatives. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, earning his PhD in economics from McGill University in 1984. A former visiting scholar at Cambridge (Elected Visiting Fellow), Canterbury (Erskine Professor), Cornell, Duke, Hebrew, Stirling, and Stanford University, he has published well over 120 refereed papers and given over 200 international academic presentations and has published 20 books in economic theory, co-operatives, ethics, economic history, and public policy. He is Dean of the fastest growing business school in the UK, attracting TPG and PhD students, across the globe. Dundee’s TPG programmes have a strong focus on employability.

Dr Deirdre Anderson
Director of the Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre, Cranfield University, School of Management.

Deirdre is an experienced occupational psychologist and researcher with expertise in inclusive leadership, gendered working practices, flexible and hybrid working, and work/family challenges in varying cultures.  She is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society, vice-chair of the EDI Committee to the Chartered Association of Business Schools, and co-chair of the Academic Advisory Board to Working Families.  Deirdre teaches at post-graduate level, and in Executive Education, working with clients to challenge, review and develop their approaches to more inclusive cultures through individual actions and organizational practices. Prior to her move into academia at Cranfield University, she spent over 20 years working within organizations and then as an independent consultant and trainer in the private sector.

Rachel Ashworth
Dean and Head of School, Cardiff Business School

Rachel Ashworth has been Dean at Cardiff Business School since September 2018. Her priorities in this role are to embed the School's Public Value strategy; enhance the student and staff experience; create space for research, agency and innovation; and, as the first female Dean of the School, actively promote equality and inclusion. Rachel is also a Professor in Public Services Management and her research can be viewed in relation to four key themes: organizational and institutional change in the public sector; scrutiny and accountability in public services, equality and diversity in public services and public service performance.

She has published in journals including Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Public Administration, Policy and Politics and Public Management Review. She recently co-edited 'Theorising Contemporary Public Management Research: International and Comparative Perspectives', a special issue of the British Journal of Management and also co-edited 'Public Service Improvement: Theories and Evidence' (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Kiersten Avery
Partner, Anderson Quigley

After a successful career in Industry, Charitable and Higher Educations institutions, Kiersten recently joined the team at Anderson Quigley as a Partner, with an appetite to build on five successful years in Higher Education executive recruitment, delivering many senior Academic and Professional Service appointments across diverse HEIs in the UK. Frequently winning work through recommendation, she is often called upon to support institutional campaigns where multiple appointments are handled concurrently or where there are particularly challenging recruitment needs. The positive relationships that Kiersten engenders with both Clients and Candidates, are a hallmark of her practice and are often commented upon in feedback – relationships are everything in the world of recruitment and the ethos and mission of Anderson Quigley align well with Kiersten’s values.

Barbara Banda
Professor of Practice and Director, Barbara Banda Consulting

Barbara Banda is the founder of the leadership consultancy, Barbara Banda Consulting, which works with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. As Professor of Practice and Educator in Leadership, Inclusive Leadership and Change at Duke Corporate Education, Rotterdam School of Management and Hult Ashridge, she is passionate

about connecting leadership education to the realities of daily life in organisations. Barbara holds five degrees, including a D.Phil from the University of Oxford that explored the importance of connecting management education to the workplace, which informs her approach with clients. She is the author of The Model Black: How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why it Matters

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Black-British-Leaders-Organisations/dp/1032060549 

https://www.routledge.com/The-Model-Black-How-Black-British-Leaders-Succeed-in-Organisations-and/Banda/p/book/9781032060545

Dr Emm Barnes
Strategic Project Manager, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London

Emm has worked in higher education for 20 years, first as an academic, then in public engagement, and more recently in business school operations management and strategy. Emm has served in the Professional Managers Committee of the Chartered Association of Business Schools, Chairing that group in 2019 and 2021 and representing professional managers on the Council of Chartered ABS. She was a member of the Taskforce on Business Schools and the Public Good, and of the research team behind the recent report into professional services models in business schools. Emm has experience of leading accreditation projects including AACSB and Athena Swan and of using these projects to support business school strategy development and implementation.

Julia Bennell
Executive Dean, Leeds University Business School

Julia Bennell is Executive Dean of Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK and Professor of Operational Research.

She has worked as an academic in Business Schools for most of her career. Prior to her appointment as Executive Dean at Leeds, she was the Deputy Head of School at the University of Southampton. In Southampton she previously led the Department for Decision Analytics and Risk, been director of the school’s largest research centre spanning Business, Maths and Health Science and had been the director of the fulltime MBA.

Andy Bell
Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health

Andy has been with Centre for Mental Health since 2002 and became Deputy Chief Executive in 2009. He has worked for more than 25 years in the voluntary sector, striving for equality and social justice through research, communicating evidence, influencing policy, and informing debate.

Andy was the driving force behind the Commission for Equality in Mental Health, funded by the Elliott Simmons Charitable Trust, established to investigate inequalities in mental health. The Commission's work culminated in a final report, Mental Health for All, which set out what a system for equality could look like across communities, local and national government.

He is at the forefront of Equally Well UK, a collaborative to support the physical health of people with a mental illness.

He plays a pivotal role in facilitating the Local Authority Mental Health Challenge, which engages elected members across the country.

Dr Frederique Bouilheres
Digital Learning Director, Nottingham University Business School

Fred is the Digital Learning Director for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham and acting Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience in the Business School and an accountant by background. She has taught a number of accounting related modules over the years and has spent the last 7 years working in teaching and learning, supporting academic staff with their professional development and leading teaching and learning initiatives in the area of blended learning, authentic assessments and accessibility. Although teaching-focussed, her research interests and publications greatly overlap with these areas.

Elaine Clarke
College Director of Education and Students, Lincoln International Business School

Elaine joined Lincoln International Business School as College Director of Education and Students in 2020.  She has worked in higher education for more than 25 years, having spent her early career in the construction and pharmaceutical industries in business development roles. Prior to her current role, Elaine held Associate Dean roles at Aston Business School in undergraduate and in postgraduate studies, and for accreditations, during which time she was awarded Principal Fellowship of the HEA.  Elaine teaches in the areas of international business, strategic marketing and brand management. Her scholarly interests lie in the professional development of students, with a strong focus on the application of future skills, particularly in self-leadership and creativity.  Elaine has been active in committees for both the Chartered Management Institute and for CABS.

Dean Cook
Director – Place and Levelling up, Innovate UK

Dean Cook is the executive lead for Place and Levelling up at Innovate UK, the national innovation agency, and a council of UKRI. His core team of English Regional and Devolved Nation engagement managers are responsible for strategic partnership building across the UK. The team has responsibility for developing Innovate UK’s Place R&D approach and developing strong relationships with local and devolved authorities, governments, and local business leaders. He also has oversight of a programme management team that will be delivering new support to innovation cluster development including the new Levelling up ‘Innovation Accelerator’ pilots for which he is the Programme Director. Dean is working widely across UKRI to deliver Place outcomes, which includes collaborative delivery of the UKRI ‘Strength in Places Fund’ with Research England.

With a technical background in agriculture and food, Dean originally joined Innovate UK in 2014 as an innovation lead for that sector. With over 30 years practical experience in research commercialisation, he was formerly at Defra’s ‘Food and Environment Research Agency’ in York, where his early career was as an applied biologist before moving into various roles within the agency’s commercial and science management teams. Dean is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and an MBA graduate of the University of Warwick.

Originally from the South of England, Dean has lived in York for 26 years and has represented Innovate UK on a number of regional economic-boards across the North of England. Dean has a strong interest in innovation clusters and brings a business perspective to UKRI discussions on Place based R&D.

Professor Christopher Cowton
Associate Director, Institute of Business Ethics & Emeritus Professor, Huddersfield Business School

Chris Cowton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Huddersfield, where he served as Professor of Accounting (1996-2016), Professor of Financial Ethics (2016-2019) and Dean of the Business School (2008-2016), having joined after ten years lecturing at the University of Oxford.

Chris ‘retired’ to London in 2019 and took a part-time Associate Director role at the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), where he contributes to the development and delivery of the IBE’s research and thought leadership, training and corporate advisory services. He is also a Visiting Professor at Leeds University’s Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre and at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain).

He was Editor of the international journal, Business Ethics: A European Review, for a decade (2004-2013) and in 2013 was awarded the University of Huddersfield’s first DLitt in recognition of his contribution to business and financial ethics. The author of more than 70 journal papers, he continues to publish regularly.

Catherine Creane
Director, Currie and Brown

Catherine has a degree in Sociology from Durham University and is a Director at Currie Brown with experience spanning a variety of sectors including universities, energy and railways.  She enjoys the challenge of delivering change management projects, both in terms of the physical infrastructure requirements, as well as the changing processes, procedures and systems, and, the most challenging, people and culture.  She was a Finalist for the Best Project Manager at the Women in Industry and Construction Engineering (WICE) Awards 2015.

Polly Derbyshire
Head of Bath Business School, Bath Spa University

Polly Derbyshire is an HR academic who is the Joint Head of Bath Business School.  Her responsibilities include overseeing the School's international and national partnerships as well as managing the university's English Language Unit.  Polly has been a member of the International Committee since 2018, so is able to provide a pre-pandemic perspective as well as provide insights in relation to how a small Business School has had to adapt as a result of the pandemic and in order to respond to the changing environment.

Professor Bob Doherty
Dean, School for Business and Society, University of York

Bob Doherty is Dean of the School for Business and Society at the University of York.  Since joining York in 2012 he has won £10.1m in grant funding with £9.4m as Principal Investigator including, ‘IKnowFood’ in 2016 (£3.4m) and more recently in 2020 a £6m award from the Transforming Food Systems Strategic Priorities Fund for the interdisciplinary programme titled 'FixOurFood'.

Bob was seconded for 3-years (2019-2022) as a senior policy fellow into UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). In addition, he is former University of York lead for N8 AgriFood and former research theme leader for sustainable food in the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI). Furthermore, he is a trustee of the Fairtrade Foundation. Bob specialises in research on hybrid organisations in the food system and has published in Nature, BMJ, Journal of Business Ethics and the International Journal of Management Reviews. Bob is Founding Editor Emeritus of the Social Enterprise Journal- after 10-years as Editor in Chief of the Social Enterprise Journal.

Terrill L. Drake
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
Harvard Business School

Terrill L. Drake is the inaugural Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at the Harvard Business School. As a member of the senior leadership team, Terrill oversees the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community. He works closely with the School’s leadership on strategic planning, programming, training, curriculum development, and recruiting and retention. Additionally, Terrill builds on the work of the School’s Racial Equity Plan to focus on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging around race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, and age.

Terrill brings nearly two decades of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion; event, program, and project management; marketing; and operational management. Terrill holds a BS in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics and an MBA from the University of Maryland Smith School of Business.

Emerita Professor Angela Druckman
Professor Emerita of Sustainable Consumption and Production, University of Surrey

Angela Druckman is Professor Emerita of Sustainable Consumption and Production at University of Surrey, having been awarded Emerita status in September 2022 in recognition of the contribution she made to advancing sustainability at the University. In particular, Angela was lead for Sustainability in the Curriculum for the University of Surrey.

Angela read Engineering at Cambridge University, and achieved Chartered Engineer status through working in electronics research and development. She subsequently had a wide variety of experience, including lecturing in electronics, developing a highly successful IT company, and campaigning on climate change issues.

Angela’s current research focuses on investigating avenues to more sustainable lifestyles, taking a holistic, systems-based approach that encompasses supply chain analysis combined with understandings of individual and societal behaviours. She is Co-Investigator for major projects, including: the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP); Advocacy for Climate Change and Environment Social Science (ACCESS); and WISE HORIZONS: Wellbeing, Inclusion, Sustainability & the Economy (due to start January 2023).

Jane Egerton-Idehen
Head of Sales, Middle East and Africa, Meta

Jane Egerton-Idehen is the Head of Sales , Middle East and Africa for Meta ( Facebook). Previously she was country manager in Nigeria and the regional sales manager for the West African branch of Avanti Communications Group PLC. Avanti, headquartered in the United Kingdom, provides satellite broadband and connectivity ser- vices to Internet service providers, mobile network operators, other satellite operators, various businesses, and government agencies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Jane was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She graduated with a second-class upper degree in electronics engineering in 2001 from the University of Nigeria, Nusska. She furthered her education at Warwick Business School in the UK, where she received a master’s degree, and she received an executive education at both Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management in the United States. She has worked in the telecommunications industry in Africa for more than 17 years. Prior to working for Meta and Avanti, she worked for Nokia and Ericsson. Her knowledge of technology, her ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships, and her skill to manage teams and create strategies to support growth and drive business are keys to her success.

In March 2020 published a book she wrote, Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission To Be You. She drew from her more than 15 years of experience as a telecommunication executive in Africa to help women build lasting careers, especially in the male-dominated STEM industries. The book hit seven Amazon best seller lists on March 17, 2020, climbing all the way to number one in the Business Ethics and Knowledge Capital categories. The book also took top ranking in several career and leadership categories as well as appearing on seven New Release list.

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Dr Ross Espinoza
Senior Learning Experience Designer, PwC; Chair, Staff Development Forum

Ross began her career as lecturer in Business and Languages at Coventry University whilst completing a Doctorate in Education at University of Warwick. She then became a Learning and Development Adviser at University of Westminster. Inspired by her research, she moved towards Learning Design, User Experience and User Research and joined the private sector, whilst maintaining her role as Chair of the Staff Development Forum (SDF).

She works as a Senior Learning Experience Designer at PwC, developing outstanding learning experiences in Inclusivity & Diversity, Compassionate Conversations and Leadership. Having previously worked for Virgin Media 02 and at Avado Learning, where she began the digital Apprenticeship programmes and developed Professional Qualifications such as CIPD.

As Chair of the SDF, she leads this non-profit to fulfil its promise, being its first female Chair, she supports staff developers in HE. She led the first virtual SDF’s Festival of Learning and Development during the pandemic. Ross transformed the SDF's hierarchical structure to an agile matrix with an invigorated Executive team who works in themes aligned to their professional interest and the SDF's strategic themes.

Professor Sally Everett
Vice Dean, King's Business School, King's College London

Sally is Professor of Business Education and Vice Dean (Education) at King’s Business School, King’s College London. Sally is also the Academic Lead for Inclusive Education for King’s College London. She’s a National Teaching Fellow, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence award holder and is the Equality Officer for the Association of National Teaching Fellows. Sally is a member of the Chartered Association of Business School’s Race Equality Working Group and their Equality and Diversity Committee. Sally has also been the Deputy Dean for the business school at Anglia Ruskin University, and a previous Head of Department at the University of Bedfordshire.

Dr Omolabake Fakunle
Director, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh

Omolabake Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow, Director Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Co-Convenor of the Race and Inclusivity in Global Education Network (RIGEN) at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. She is Affiliate Faculty, Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. She is a Fellow of the HEA. Omolabake is a member of the Scottish Funding Council’s Tertiary Quality Framework Expert Advisory Group. Her award-winning research examines inclusivity in internationalisation policy-making, processes and practices, focusing on three topics, employability, decoloniality and cultural inclusivity. She widely disseminates her research via journal articles, blogs, and as invited speaker at national and international events.

Ed Fidoe
Co-founder and CEO, London Interdisciplinary School

Ed Fidoe is co-founder CEO of the London Interdisciplinary School. LIS is the UK’s first new university to open with Degree Awarding Powers since the 1960s. It provides a fully interdisciplinary undergraduate degree, with students studying complex problems rather than specific subjects.

In 2012 Ed co-founded School 21, an innovative 4 – 18 school in Stratford, East London (achieved Outstanding Ofsted in 2014). Previously he worked at McKinsey & Co. and as a theatre producer.

Professor Monika Foster
Head, Sunderland Business School

Professor Monika Foster is the Head of Sunderland Business School. Monika has worked in Business Schools in the UK and internationally for over 30 years. She has led cross-institutional and interdisciplinary projects to ensure international students’ and mature students’ success in higher education. Monika’s research interests lie in cross-cultural management, internationalization of higher education, and change management. Her latest Routledge publication is Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education: A Critical Pedagogy (routledge.com) Monika’s external recognition includes the award of National Teaching Fellow, Principal Fellow of the HEA and Visiting Professor from Shandong University of Finance, China. Monika has served on national committees and advisory bodies influencing student learning, including an Advisory Board to HEA Internationalisation Framework and on Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee.

James Gardiner
Director of Employability and Enterprise, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Joint CEO of Studious Digital Education

James Gardiner is the Director of Employability and Associate Professor in Marketing and Management at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia.  James is also co-founder and joint CEO of Studious Digital Education Ltd, an EdTech eLearning company and winner of Barclays Start-up of the year 2020, which works with universities across Europe to improve access, engagement and achievement across the HE sector.

Prior to joining UEA, James was the Academic Programme Director for the Management and Social Science degrees. Working closely with the CMI he pioneered the delivery of one of the UK’s first Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeships. Before joining academia James founded 3 companies, and worked in the London insurance market and technology sector, as Marketing Director and Managing Director for various organisations.

Caroline Gatrell
Associate Dean, Research, University of Liverpool Management School

She offers a distinguished research record and was awarded the British Academy of Management Research Medal in 2020. Her research critically analyses, from a socio-cultural perspective, how professional workers (often parents) balance paid work and family lives. Current research projects include a focus on fathers and employment; studies on the ‘maternal body’ within organizational settings and research on how senior women clergy experience careers, work and family

Caroline is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Caroline is presently Chair of the Research Committee, Chartered Association of Business Schools and is General Editor, Journal of Management Studies

Professor Alexandra Gerbasi
Dean, University of Exeter Business School; Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter

Alexandra Gerbasi is currently the Dean of the Business School and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy.  She joined the University of Exeter in 2017. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Surrey, Grenoble Ecole de Management and California State University, Northridge. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Duke University. Her research focuses on the effects of positive and negative network ties within the workplace, and their effects on performance, leadership, well-being, thriving, affect and turnover. In addition, her research addresses how individuals recognize opportunities for collaboration and advancement in their networks. She has formerly served as the Head of Department of Management and Deputy Dean of the University of Exeter Business School.

Sarah Gillard
Chief Executive Officer, A Blueprint for Better Business

Sarah is the CEO of Blueprint for Better Business, a charity that helps businesses to be inspired and guided by a purpose that benefits society and respects people and planet. She is a passionate advocate for making business “more human” - places where people flourish, communities prosper, and long-term sustainability is the driving force. She has over 25 years’ experience leading in fast-paced commercial environments at some of the UK’s largest retail companies, including the John Lewis Partnership where she was responsible for rearticulating and embedding the organisation’s  purpose so that it continues to be a source of inspiration, innovation, and strategic differentiation.

Sarah has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and is a fellow of the RSA and a Trustee of the John Lewis Foundation.

Rosalind Goates
Head of Advocacy and Campaigns, Social Mobility Foundation

Rosalind joined the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) in September 2020 to lead the advocacy and campaigns team, the Department for Opportunities, and now also oversees the Social Mobility Employer Index. She is a passionate campaigner and committed to ensuring better outcomes for young people from low-income backgrounds. Under her leadership, the team have won several awards for their campaigns in recognition of the creative approach they have taken to improving social mobility.

Before joining the SMF, she was a Senior Consultant at Portland Communications, advising a range of FTSE 10’s and not-for-profits in the UK and globally.

Professor Jan Godsell
Dean, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Jan Godsell is Dean of the School of Business and Economics and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at Loughborough University. Her work focuses on the pursuit of more responsible consumption and production through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy with consumer needs. In particular Jan’s work focuses on the design of end-to-end supply chains to enable, responsibility, sustainability, resilience and productivity.

 As a chartered engineer, Jan has more than three decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy, and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She has advised government and industry on supply chain strategy and its relationship to industrial and business strategy. Jan is currently a member of the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) supply chain resilience advisory group. Jan is also a member of the advisory group for the Made Smarter Innovation (MSI) challenge.

Professor David Grayson CBE
Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University School of Management

Independent commentator, adviser and speaker on Responsible Business, Corporate Sustainability, and collaboration between businesses and other parts of society.

David is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management. David joined Cranfield in 2007 after a 30-year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, economic regeneration, disability rights and diversity.

David has chaired several public bodies. He currently chairs The Institute of Business Ethics and the international, pan-disablity charity Leonard Cheshire. He is the author of ten books. The latest - “The Sustainable Business Handbook,” - is co-authored with Chris Coulter and Mark Lee (Kogan Page 2022).

During his career, he has done work with numerous multinational businesses as well as for many Responsible Business coalitions around the world and for the OECD, European Union and the World Bank.

Dr. Kendi Guantai
University Co-Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) University of Leeds Business School

Dr. Kendi Guantai is one of the two University Deans for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Leeds, and an Associate Professor of Corporate Communications Practice in the Marketing Department of the Business School.

She holds an MA in Advertising and Marketing and a PhD from the University of Leeds, where she began her career as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Marketing Department of the Business School in 2011. She currently leads on Decolonisation at the School and is a Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) Fellow researching racialised and classed experiences of students during their studies at university, and how these relate to authentic self-expression and Sense of Belonging.

Outside the University, she the Chair of the Board for ActionAid UK and Vice-Chair of the Chartered Association for Business School's Race Equality Action Group.

Lord Dr Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE
Chair, SOAS Board of Trustees; Chair, London Chamber of Commerce Black Business Association; Professor of Leadership, Huntsman Business School

Lord Dr. Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE is Chair of the SOAS Board of Trustees. Lord Hastings has had a deeply purposeful career across the public, private and non-profit sectors, working within education, philanthropy, justice and commercial business to support and develop communities around the world.

Lord Hastings began his career as a teacher then worked across government agencies on policies to build racial equality, including as a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality for nine years. He is Chair of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Black Business Association and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Black Business Institute. He was conferred with a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2003 for services to crime reduction; with Peerage to House of Lords in 2005 as an Independent Baron. He is currently a Vice President at UNICEF UK and a trustee for the Africa Philanthropy Foundation.

Professor Toni Hilton
Dean, School of Business and Law, University of Brighton ; Member, Chartered ABS Council

Toni Hilton is Professor of Marketing and Dean of the School of Business and Law.  Prior to this appointment she was Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society. Toni has worked in higher education for over two decades and has held senior academic management positions at universities in New Zealand as well as in the UK. Most of her HE experience has been in large, city-based business schools with an emphasis on widening participation, applied learning, student experience, employability and applied research.  Toni read law at university and pursued a career in sales and marketing before joining the Bristol Business School, UWE as an academic.  Toni’s research interest lies in services marketing and the management of service, with a particular focus on the marketing of professional services and not-for-profit marketing. She has published in the Journal of Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Customer Behaviour, the International Journal of the Legal Profession and Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and is a co-author of Services Marketing: text and cases.

Laura Hinton
Management Board Member and Tax Leader, PwC UK; Executive Fellow, Kings Business School

Laura is a member of PwC’s UK Management Board, where she holds the position of UK Tax Leader, which includes leadership of PwC UK’s Tax, Legal and People and Organisation practices. Laura has over 25 years experience as a business consultant, specialising in HR and Workforce transformation, operating model programmes and culture change. Laura will also shortly take on the role of Chair of the EMEA Executive team and is currently transitioning into this position. She has been a partner in PwC since 2006.

Prior to taking on this role, Laura was PwC UK’s Chief People Officer, and a member of the Executive Board for over 5 years, where she was also responsible for the Firm’s overall Transformation Programme and leading on our External Reputation and Communications agenda. Laura graduated from King's College, London with a 1st Class Business Management degree, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Dr Alex Hope
Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University.

Dr Alex Hope is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) in the Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University. He is responsible for developing and implementing strategy around student experience, teaching excellence, the REF, TEF and NSS and Trans-National Education. He undertakes teaching, research and consultancy across topics such as responsible business, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), CSR, energy policy and business ethics. Alongside his work at Newcastle Business School Dr Hope is Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (UN PRME) Climate Change and Environment working group.

Jacqueline Jenkins
Global Relationship Manager (Education), British Council.

Jacqui Jenkins is the Global Programme Lead for International Student Mobility at the British Council. She leads the British Council work within the international student mobility eco-system and manages the relationship with agents, school and college counsellors, pathway and ELT providers.  During her career, she has held a number of high profile roles within the British Council, she was the first producer of the Going Global conference (2004-13), she founded the global Study UK Alumni Awards (2015) and she was the lead education adviser to No.10 for the education strand of GREAT Britain campaign (2016-19).

Professor Jill Johnes
Dean, Huddersfield Business School

Dr Annabel Kiernan
Pro Vice Chancellor Education, Staffordshire University

Annabel joined Staffordshire University as Pro Vice Chancellor - Education in May 2021, having worked in higher education for nearly twenty-five years.

Annabel previously worked at Nottingham Trent University as Deputy Dean for the School of Social Sciences, leading the Education portfolio.

Prior to NTU, Annabel was the Head of Education for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she was also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities.

Annabel has also held posts at Sheffield Hallam University and at the University of the West of Scotland, where she was Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and Public Policy.

Annabel studied Economics (major in Politics) at the University of Manchester, gained a distinction for her MA European Studies at Newcastle University, and was awarded her PhD in policy-making theory from the University of Warwick.

Throughout her career Annabel has had a commitment to higher education access and inclusion, innovating teaching and the student experience, social mobility and social justice.

Professor Patricia Kingori
Professor of Global Health Ethics, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford

Professor Debra Leighton
HE Consultant; former Dean, University of Bedfordshire Business School

Professor Debra Leighton CMBE is Senior Adviser for EFMD Global’s Business School Impact System (BSIS) and also an HE Business Consultant. Based in the UK, she was Dean of Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University and prior to that Executive Dean at the University of Bedfordshire Business School, which became the first UK Business School to achieve BSIS recognition in 2018. She has also held senior leadership roles at Salford Business School, and over the past twelve years has worked and advised on a wide range of other accreditations and quality labels including EQUIS, AMBA, AACSB, PRME and EFMD accredited.

In 2019, Debra was awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Association of Business Schools  in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the work of Business Schools. She has worked closely with the Chartered ABS for many years and is a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE), contributing to leadership and development programmes, conferences and publications and keen to promote the active sharing of best practice in business and management education.

Sarah Lethbridge
Pro Dean of External Relations, Director of the Executive MBA, Cardiff Business School

My team and I are responsible for all of the outward facing activity of Cardiff Business School, enabling our research to have real world impact. I am the Programme Director of our Executive MBA and we manage variety of bespoke and open Executive Education programmes for the public and private sector built from the expertise of the academic faculty of the Business School.  We have created a lively business community by providing opportunities to engage with the Business School and University via our popular Breakfast Briefing series, academic conferences and events. My area of specialism is Lean Thinking and Service Improvement and I have worked in a variety of different settings to better understand all of the successful components of organisations and how to create cultures of Continuous Improvement. I particularly enjoy working with improvement teams to enhance their knowledge and encourage self-sufficiency.

Maryke Luijendijk-Steenkamp
Assistant Vice-President, DIFC Academy, Dubai International Financial Centre

Maryke Luijendijk-Steenkamp is an Education Advisor with an expansive career in the higher education industry. She is currently with DIFC Academy at Dubai International Financial Centre and previous clients include the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) and MBATube/MBAGRADSCHOOLS. She previously held the roles of Program Director, Executive MBA at American University in Dubai - a program she successfully designed and launched - and Director, Marketing and Admissions at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She has also worked in the UK and started her career in her native South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Communications Management, an Honours Degree in Industrial Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development and Management from North-West University, South Africa. Maryke fiercely believes education creates futures and loves adding value to education projects.

Professor Robert MacIntosh
Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University; Chair, Chartered ABS

Professor Robert MacIntosh trained as an engineer and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy of Management. He has published over 100 outputs including books on strategy, organisational change and research impact. His background reflects a long-standing interest in multidisciplinary research that makes a difference in the world. He is an advocate of the transformative power of universities both in their learning and teaching and in their research and knowledge exchange.

He has held leadership roles in business schools at Strathclyde, Glasgow and Heriot-Watt and is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor for Business and Law at Northumbria University. He is also Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools and sits on the Council of the British Academy of Management.

He has extensive experience working with, facilitating and researching strategy in a range of publicly traded firms, large public organisations and third sector organisations and has supervised a number of senior leaders from the US, Canada, Europe and the UK to doctoral completion.

He is an experienced boardroom practitioner having served on the board of the social care charity Turning Point Scotland (2013 to 2021, and chair from 2019-2021) and the board of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (2014-2021). He publishes regularly on academic life in the Times Higher Education and on doctoral study through ThePhDBlog.com. His status as a shareholder in Aberdeen Football Club demonstrates his innate optimism.

Juergen Maier CBE
Industrialist; Chair, Digital Catapult; former Chief Executive, Siemens UK

Juergen Maier is Chair of the Digital Catapult, is the co-founder of vocL – a platform for responsible business voices, and is Vice-Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership where he supports the drive for the green re-industrialisation of the North of England. He advises tech start-up and scale-up businesses which are a key part of the industrial ecosystem creating the green 4th Industrial revolution. In that capacity Juergen advises the Welsh hydrogen car company Riversimple.

Juergen is the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK. A position he held from July 2014 to December 2019. Over his 33 year career with Siemens he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany.

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 as a graduate engineer with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2017. Juergen has also received honorary doctorates for his services to UK Science and Engineering from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham Trent, Salford Manchester, Cranfield, Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan who also made him an honorary Professor in 2019. Juergen was awarded a Fellowship of the City & Guilds Institute in 2020, in recognition of skills development support for technical apprenticeships and workplace upskilling for 4th Industrial Revolution technologies.

He was awarded a CBE in the New Years honours list 2019.

Juergen takes a strong leadership role for UK’s industrial and manufacturing community. He is a passionate advocate for a new post-covid politics and economics; one that provides much stronger leadership and support for innovation led, high productivity, green ‘frontier industries’. In 2017 he was asked by the Government to lead a review into how to increase the digitalization of the UK manufacturing sector. The subsequent report led to the creation of the joint industry/government Made Smarter initiative driving advanced digitalisation and productivity in the manufacturing sector.

Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE FAcSS
Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter

Lee Elliot Major is Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, based at the University of Exeter. He was previously Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust and a trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation.

His work is dedicated to improving the prospects of disadvantaged children and young people. He works closely with school leaders, universities, and employers as well as Government policy makers.

His Penguin book Social Mobility and Its Enemies has attracted attention across the world. Lee is one of the most prominent public voices in national education debates and regularly advises the Government on education and social mobility.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and serves on the Strategic Advisory Network of the Economic and Social Research Council.

He was awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen’s Honours. He is the first in his family to go to university.

Professor Claire Mallanaphy
Associate Dean -Undergraduate, Finance and Accounting, University of Liverpool Management School

Professor Claire Mallanaphy is Associate Dean at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS) being responsible for the strategic performance of School’s Undergraduate portfolio.

Claire’s research interests lie in the student experience, including UG employability and the concept of belonging in Higher Education. She is especially interested in the career tracks of ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ or ‘Education Focused’ colleagues.  She has co-authored a White Paper on Education-Focused Career Tracks in UK Business and Management Schools and has presented at numerous conferences on this matter.

Prior to joining higher education, Claire qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant and has significant industry experience in the Financial Reporting discipline.

Claire moved into higher education as a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, and then moved to the University of Liverpool shortly after.

Following a period as Associate Head for the Economics, Finance and Accounting department, Claire became Director of Student Experience of ULMS in 2016 and then Associate Dean Undergraduate in 2021.

Outside of ULMS, Claire holds senior quality assurance roles with professional accounting bodies. She is a member of the BAM Management Knowledge and Education committee and also a member of the ICAEW Academia and Education Community Group.

Professor Delphine Manceau
Dean, NEOMA Business School

Professor Delphine Manceau is the Dean of NEOMA Business School (France). She holds a PhD from HEC Paris (1996), and was a senior research fellow at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1997). Delphine Manceau is member of the EQUIS Committee. As a Professor of Marketing and Innovation, she has published papers on these topics. She was a member of the EU Commission High Level Expert Group “Research, Innovation and Science Policy” (RISE) in 2015-2018.

Dr Joe Marshall
Chief Executive, NCUB

Formerly Chief Operating Officer and Director of Strategy at NCUB, Dr Joe Marshall took over as Chief Executive in summer 2018.
Prior to joining the National Centre, Dr Marshall has held a number of positions across government and university organisations. As an academic specialising in government education policy and practice he worked with a number of international agencies including UNESCO, WHO and the European Parliament.
A researcher at the University of Manchester, he went onto hold senior lectureship positions at Liverpool Hope University and University of Worcester before working for UK Sport (the government agency for elite sport) and then the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Professor Eileen McAuliffe
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Executive Dean, Birmingham City Business School

Dr Lisa McIlvenna
Deputy Chief Executive, Business in the Community (NI)

Dr Lisa McIlvenna is Deputy Chief Executive of Business in the Community (NI) and an adjunct faculty member at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she previously completed her PhD.  She is a regular (and keynote) speaker at local, national and international business conferences and has been instrumental in helping shape business opinion about the role of business in society. Lisa recently sat on the Taskforce advising The Chartered Association of Business Schools on the role of ‘Universities Creating Public Good’. She is a member of B Lab’s European Regional Advisory Group, and an Advisory Board member of The Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Professor Peter McKiernan
Professor of Management, University of Strathclyde

Lewis McKinnon
Head of Partner Development UK and Europe Studiosity

As Head of Partner Development (UK and Europe) at Studiosity, Lewis McKinnon is dedicated to the provision of student support and works closely with higher education institutions enabling them to reach, engage, and effectively support more students than previously possible. He has over 15 years of experience working with some of the world’s leading educational institutions and stakeholders, most recently at the University of London Worldwide, responsible for expanding their academic, corporate and government stakeholder relationships across southern and central Asia.

Professor Heather McLaughlin
Pro Vice-Chancellor Research & Academic Staff Development; Dean Faculty of Business & Law, De Montfort University; Member, Chartered ABS Council

Dr Denise Meyer
Director of Student Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University

Dr Denise Meyer, a BPS chartered psychologist, has worked in university support services and as a thought leader and consultant in the sector since 1995. She is University Mental Health Charter Award assessor and has recently taken up a new senior strategic role as Director of Student Wellbeing at Canterbury Christ Church University, with a remit to lead on consolidating a sector-leading whole-institution approach to student wellbeing and inclusion. She has been a Student Minds champion and collaborator since its inception, including co-authoring its Positive Minds course, serving on its Clinical Advisory Group, and helping to shape the University Mental Health Charter Award Scheme as a pilot assessor. Denise has a longstanding interest in innovation in student support, particularly through co-construction with students and integration with learning. Her doctoral collaborative action research with students resulted in the award-winning Students Against Depression website, which has supported millions of users nationally and internationally. She has published book chapters and spoken at numerous sector conferences on a range of student mental health topics, and has a particular interest in student transitions and the integration of compassion-focused psychoeducation into the curriculum, with a focus on community-building and belonging.

Dr Cathy Minett-Smith
Principal Fellow, Higher Education Academy; Dean of Learning and Teaching, College of Business and Law, University of the West of England.

Dr Cathy Minett-Smith is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a National Teaching Fellow reviewer and has extensive teaching experience in Higher Education. Cathy is currently the Dean of Learning and Teaching in the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England. Prior to this she was the Associate Dean Student Experience in the University of Bedfordshire Business School where she successfully led the Education Impact strand resulting in Bedfordshire Business School being the first school in the UK to be recognised under EFMD’s Business School Impact System (BSIS).  In both of these roles she was responsible for developing and enhancing all aspects of the student experience, working with colleagues in the Business School and wider university to actively link the functional areas of the student learning experience, including administrative, learning support and academic delivery, to creatively and effectively develop the learning experience for students.  Cathy has extensive experience of strategy development and implementation at both an institutional and faculty level. Cathy also has strong connections with the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), is Vice chair of the CABS Learning, Teaching and Student Experience committee and leads the CABS Leaders in Learning and Teaching development programme.

Professor Charles Moses
Dean, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific

Charles T. Moses is the Dean, and Professor of Management, at the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific. He previously as Dean of the School of Management at the University of San Francisco, and in leadership roles at Austin Peay State University and Clark Atlanta University.

He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Mona School of Business and Management at the University of the West Indies, in Kingston, Jamaica, where he teaches MBA classes in strategy and a doctoral level seminar In 2010-2011, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the university.

From 1994-2001, was a consultant, based in South Africa and the Dean of Edupark, a business school affiliated with the University of Limpopo in Polokwane, South Africa. He was also a Managing Director of Labat Africa, a business advisory firm.

As a senior advisor to former New York State Governor Mario M. Cuomo, Dr. Moses was the administrator of the State’s South Africa policy, which included the development of policies for the State’s investment portfolio. Dr. Moses was also strategic planning and budget executive for Newsday, one of America’s largest daily newspapers.

In 2001, he was a Mandel Fellow at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management from where he received a Doctorate in Business Administration in 2004. His dissertation focused on the development of economic models facilitating entrepreneurial development. He has served on the boards of three non-profit organizations, The National Issues Forum Institute, Special Olympics of New Jersey, and ELMCOR Youth, and Adult Activities.

Dr Nick Mount
Academic Director, University of Nottingham Online

Dr Katrin Muff
Director, Institute for Business Sustainability and Professor of Practice, LUISS Business School

Dr. Katrin Muff is Director of the Institute for Business Sustainability and Professor of Practice at the LUISS Business School in Rome. She works as a consultant for executives and boards of directors in the area of sustainability and strategic transformation. Ms. Muff, together with Dr. Thomas Dyllick, co-directs two leading-edge executive education programs in Sustainability Leadership. She was previously Dean of the Business School Lausanne for 10 years. Her books “Five Superpowers for Co-creators” and “The Positive Impact Mindset” are a testimony to her experience in stakeholder engagement, facilitation and coaching for positive impact. She has 20 years of international business experience in strategy and management in Australia, the USA, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Netherlands at Schindler, ALCOA and Procter & Gamble. Ms. Muff was born in Switzerland and is committed to the positive contribution of companies to society and the environment.

Simon Nelson
Chief Executive Office, QA Higher Education

Simon is CEO of QA Higher Education, a fast growing HE provider which partners with UK universities to recruit, teach and support students from all over the world on highly employable degrees.

He draws upon a 25-year career building ground-breaking products and services across media and education that have impacted millions of people worldwide.
Prior to QA, Simon was founding CEO of the UK’s leading online learning platform, FutureLearn, from launch in 2012 until mid-2020, by which time 15 million people had signed up to short courses and degrees delivered by over a quarter of the world’s top universities. Post FutureLearn he spent a year as Group Digital Director for the world’s leading international schools group, Nord Anglia.

His earlier career was spent at the BBC – leading all-digital strategy and product development, initially for BBC Radio & Music, then for BBC Television. His teams delivered pioneering on-demand services such as the iPlayer, RadioPlayer and Podcasting, helped build BBC.co.uk into one of the world’s leading websites and led the BBC’s development on all other digital platforms.

Lindsay Marie Nygren (PGR)

Lindsay is a second year PhD student with a joint project between the School of Education and the Adam Smith School of Business at the University of Glasgow. Having obtained a master's degree in international management and public policy, her current focus is on the social relations international students form during their studies and the impact on their labour market transitions. The aim of her research is to create an easier and more approachable way for international students to navigate their employment opportunities after graduation. She is driven to understand how policies at the university and national level impact students throughout their studies, and how universities can continue to support student needs. As a student ambassador, Lindsay is passionate to promote equality of access and inclusion for international students in their host communities.

Professor Kamil Omoteso
Pro Vice-Chancellor/Dean, College of Business, Law and Social Science, University of Derby

In my role as the Dean of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, I provide executive leadership for the College. I’m also responsible for driving change, growth and sustainability across the College and its component Schools.

As a Pro Vice-Chancellor, I support University-wide initiatives, programmes and projects. I also help shape the University's policies and strategies. I am the Executive Lead on the University’s Access and Participation Plan as well as EDI.

I began my academic career in 2001 at Lagos State University, Nigeria, after six years of working in different accounting and auditing roles in both public and private sectors. Between 2003 and 2013, I held different academic positions including Principal Lecturer and the Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Accounting at De Montfort University, Leicester. Prior to joining the University of Derby, I was the Head of the School of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Coventry University, where I led a number of strategic initiatives.

I hold a professorial chair in Accounting and Governance and my research interests cover Corporate Reporting, Accountability and Governance. I sit on the Council of Chartered Association of Business School (Chartered ABS). I am also a member of the Management Committee of its Academic Journal Guide.

Stuart Osborne
Consultant at Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure, sponsored by BEIS

Stuart Osborne has an extensive career in the public and private sector. He is a former Chief Police Officer retiring from The Metropolitan Police as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner where he held several national and international policing portfolios. More recently he has worked as a senior executive in a FTSE top 50 defence organisation with global responsibility for risk and security; and a leading FTSE facilities management and consulting organisation as group head of risk and Managing Director for Risk and Resilience Consulting. He now runs his own consultancy practice advising Government, private sector business and 3^rd sector organisation’s on risk, governance and corporate resilience and is an associate for The Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI).

Dr Shobana Partington
Head of Department, Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Shobana has over 20 years experience of working in Higher Education in the UK and Malaysia. She leads the department that delivers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the subject area of business technology, business analytics, project management, operations and supply chain, events, and hospitality management. The department is also home to the sector leading Degree Apprenticeship programme in Digital Technology Solution. She has a passion for student engagement and industry-led, innovative delivery and assessment that provides the necessary skills for work-ready, entrepreneurial graduates. She strongly believes in preparing students for graduate employment through raising self-awareness and reflection and equip them with digital and data analytical skills to provide them with competitive advantage in the job markets and help them climb the career ladder.

Nathalie Podder
Deputy President (Welfare), Imperial College Union

Nathalie is a student at Imperial College who is currently working full time in her second term as Deputy President (Welfare) at Imperial College Union. She received her BSc in Physics and is currently working on reforming the higher education sector, both within and outside of her home university. Her main interests lie in EDI, reforming student disciplinary procedures and policies to be more trauma-informed, and reforming organizational culture. Recently, she has led the Union’s response to the cost-of-living crisis in making recommendations to Imperial College and Universities UK around student financial support.

Andy Poole
Director of Partnerships, Coursera for Campus, Coursera

Gregory P. Prastacos
Dean, School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology
Co-Chair, AACSB Affinity Group on Digital Transformation
Principal Investigator, MaCuDE project

Gregory P. Prastacos has been the Dean of the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA since 2012. Prior to joining Stevens, he was the Rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece, and before that, he was on the faculty of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also has significant consulting experience, and has served as Chairman of Deloitte’s Management Consulting Practice in Greece. He has been educated at Columbia University, where he received a BS and an MS in Computer Science, and a Doctorate in Operations Research. His research has been published is top journals, and he has received numerous awards and distinctions and.

Professor Prastacos is a pioneer in the technology-driven transformation of business education. He co-chairs the Digital Transformation Affinity Group of AACSB International, he is the Principal Investigator of MaCuDE (macude.org) - a global initiative supported by PwC to revise the management curriculum for the digital era, and he is the program co-chair of the forthcoming conference “Leading and Managing in the Digital Era: Shaping the Future of Work and Business Education” (LMDE2023.org).

Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
Professor Marketing and Sustainable Business, School of Fashion, GCU London

Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas EdD FRSA is a Professor in Marketing and Sustainable Business at the British School of Fashion, Glasgow Caledonian University, London, where she is also responsible for Academic Leadership for Business and Sustainability.

Professor Radclyffe-Thomas is a National Teaching Fellow, Vice Chair of PRME UK&I Chapter, Editor-in-Chief for Bloomsbury Fashion Business Case Studies, Associate Editor for the International Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, and co-author of Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach.

Natascha's cross-disciplinary research spans the creative industries practice; sustainable fashion; social enterprise and responsible business; cultural heritage; consumer behaviour, and international fashion marketing. Natascha has extensive international teaching and professional development experience, and is an advocate for globally responsible education, and an inaugural Advisory Board member for the Council for International African Fashion Education.

Natascha won the Case Centre 2020 Award for Ethics and Social Responsibility and was Runner-Up in the FT’s 2022 Responsible Business Educator Awards, and has supported the RSA and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on their Make Fashion Circular initiatives.

Mike Ratcliffe
Academic Registrar, formerly Nottingham Trent University

M.N. Ravishankar
Dean, Queen’s Management School,

M.N. Ravishankar is Professor of Technology & Globalisation, and Dean of Queen’s Management School, Queen’s University Belfast. Previously, he served as Associate Dean (Research), and Director of Internationalisation at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. His research spans management of digital innovations, social entrepreneurship, and global technology sourcing. Professor Ravishankar holds editorial positions at five scholarly journals and has been consistently ranked amongst the top 20 global scholars based on research publications in the Association for Information Systems’ basket of eight world-leading journals.

Professor Vijay Reddy
Professor of Sustainable SME Growth, Birmingham City Business School

Based at Birmingham City University Business School, Professor Maharaj Vijay Reddy, is an expert in disaster management and sustainable SME growth. Before joining Birmingham City, Vijay worked for Coventry University Business School as Associate Professor. At the University of West London, he led College Research and Enterprise portfolio and was also the Head of Subject for the Department of Tourism, Aviation and Event Management. Previously, Vijay worked for Anglia Ruskin University Business School as Deputy Head of the Department for Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, and as Lecturer to Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University.

As principal investigator and co-investigator, Vijay has completed 10+ research projects to foster socio-economic development and business resilience following a range of disasters that affected some of the most challenging regions in the world including Kashmir, Fukushima, and Andaman and Nicobar. These projects were commissioned by national and international organizations, including UNESCO (2002-03), Rufford Foundation (2002), Royal Geographic Society (2004), UNESCO (2005), British Academy (2007), British Academy (2009), Higher Education Innovation Fund (2010-12), Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2013), British Council (2015), and British Council (2019-2022). Vijay’s publications appear in CABS 3-4* journals as well as in high-impact sources such as The World Financial Review and UNESCO.

His contribution in the field of sustainable development has attracted the attention of practitioners, professional associations and some of the international policy agencies driving green economy practices, business resilience and poverty reduction around the world (e.g., United Nations HQ Division for Sustainable Development, UNESCO, and UNEP Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch). Vijay’s expert opinions were often sought by print and broadcast media in the UK and abroad, which include BBC TV, Sky TV, ITV, BBC Radio, Asian Voice, and Arabian Business.

Professor Stewart Robinson
Dean, Newcastle University Business School; Member, Chartered ABS Council

David Schofield
Director of Sustainability, Aviva

David is the Director of Sustainability at Aviva. With a background in the third sector, e-commerce and financial services he leads Aviva’s group Sustainability team working on strategy, governance and implementation to support Aviva’s Sustainability Ambition which includes their Net Zero by 2040 goal. He also sits on the board of trustees of the United Nations Global Compact UK Network and International Consortium for Street Children. He is a regular speaker at CR & Sustainability conferences and runs up and down hills for fun in the Peak District where he lives with his family.

Dr Geethanjali Selvaretnam
Deputy Head for EDI and Sustainability, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow; Chair, Chartered ABS EDI Committee

Dr Geethanjali Selvaretnam is a Senior Lecturer at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow where she is currently the Deputy Head of the Business School for EDI and Sustainability.  She previously worked at the University of St Andrews, Royal Holloway and University of Essex, where she read for her PhD in Economics. Before academia, she worked as an accountant and at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. She is a Senior Fellow of HEA, holds an MBA from the University of Colombo, M.Ed in Academic Practice in Higher Education from the University of Glasgow and is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). In addition to her research interests in Development Economics, she is working on inner feedback generation, peer support initiatives and multicultural interactions.

Professor Amir M. Sharif
Dean & Professor of Circular Economy, University of Bradford

Professor Dilshad Sheikh
Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic); Dean of the Faculty of Business, Arden University

Professor Dilshad Sheikh has more than 20 years’ experience in the higher education sector, gained from multiple roles ranging from teaching in the classroom through to senior management. She currently holds the strategic leadership positions of Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic) & Dean of the Faculty of Business at Arden University. She recently appeared on a BBC Radio 4 panel, in an episode of Rethink, discussing technology, digital and the future of higher education. She is also a regular contributor to Times Higher Education Campus, has written for digital publication FE News and was named as one of Business Women in Education’s Women to Watch for 2022.

Hetan Shah
Chief Executive, The British Academy

Hetan Shah joined the British Academy in 2020. He is Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London. Hetan is Vice Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, which focuses on how to ensure artificial intelligence and data are used for public good. He is on the board of The Legal Education Foundation, a philanthropic body supporting a better justice system. He is a trustee of St George’s House, a charity based in Windsor Castle which organises discussions on issues of public interest. Hetan is on the advisory board of the Science Media Centre and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE
Associate Principal, University of Strathclyde

Professor Eleanor Shaw, OBE is an Associate Principal with responsibility for the University’s entrepreneurship strategy, 'Strathclyde Inspire'. She is also Director of Strathclyde Doctoral School. Eleanor joined Strathclyde in 2001 and became Head of the Hunter Centre in 2013. She has been Vice Dean for Knowledge Exchange and Senior Vice Dean of Strathclyde Business School. In January 2020, Eleanor became an Associate Principal and joined the University’s Executive Team.

Eleanor’s research is focused on the practice of entrepreneurial networking and firm growth. She focuses on entrepreneurial diversity and her work on women’s, graduate, social and creative entrepreneurship is published in leading journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Human Relations and International Small Business Journal. Eleanor’s research has been funded by the ESRC and EPSRC and a range of private sector organisations and agencies including the Cabinet Office. She is Co-I of the ESRC-funded ProPEL Hub (Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning) - a major new initiative designed to support improvements in productivity through enhanced workplace practice and employee engagement that is also supported by CIPD.

Eleanor is an inclusive entrepreneurial leader with more than 25years of experience of enhancing business growth. She is co-designer of the Growth Advantage Programme (GAP) - a leadership and growth programme for ambitious entrepreneurs. GAP was recently fully endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute and is one of only two UK leadership programmes to be designed and delivered by faculty and entrepreneurs. Complimenting her research and teaching interests, Eleanor sits on the Council of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABs), the Small Business Charter (SBC) Management Board, the People, Talent and Leadership Committee, ScaleUp Institute and is a trustee of the Beatson Cancer Charity.

David Stannard
Director of Administration, Henley Business School

David is Director of Administration at Henley Business School, leading a team of around 100 professional services staff who manage and support Henley’s students, programmes (both degree and non-degree executive education) and operations.  He is a member of Henley’s senior leadership team and a key part of his role is responsibility for Henley’s ongoing Triple Accreditation by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.  David has been a member of the CABS Professional Managers’ Committee since 2020 and is part of the Committee’s working group undertaking research on professional service resourcing models in UK business schools.

Anthony Sturgess
Director, Corporate Development, Liverpool Business School

Dr Adam Shore
Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University

Michelle Stewart
Head of Internationalisation, University of Strathclyde; President, EAIE (European Association for International Education)

Michelle Stewart is the Immediate Past President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and Head of Internationalisation (Humanities & Social Sciences) at the University of Strathclyde. She has worked in higher education for over twenty years. After graduating in Public Administration she worked for four years in Spain where she developed executive education courses. When she returned to Scotland she was an adviser to the Lord Provost, Glasgow City Council. Having worked in internationalisation for several years, Michelle has a strong commitment to partnership development and student mobility. Michelle has served on external boards including: Operating Board Education UK Partnership; Chair, Scottish Universities International Group (SUIG); Chair, BUTEX (British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association). She has an extensive network of colleagues across the UK and overseas.

Vicki Stott
Chief Executive, QAA

Vicki has been QAA’s Chief Executive since November 2021. She previously served as QAA’s Executive Director of Operations and Deputy Chief Executive. Since September 2021 she is also a Board member of INQAAHE, the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education.

Vicki has worked in Higher Education since 1997, when she worked in the International Office at UMIST. She subsequently worked with University of Warwick, the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford, before joining QAA following the agency’s transformation programme. From 2019-21, Vicki led QAA’s operational teams through the inception of QAA Membership model and early Designated Quality Body period. She took over as Chief Executive following the COVID-19 pandemic and is looking forward to leading QAA as it supports the sector to recover from the impact of the pandemic.

Vicki also has experience in the commercial and charity sectors, having run her own company and been director of a charity working with families affected by domestic abuse. She currently lives in the Cotswolds with two highly photogenic dogs and a grumpy cat.

Professor Alison Truelove
Director of the Centre for Innovation in Business Education, University of Exeter Business School

Professor Vera Trappmann
Professor of Work and Comparative Employment Relations; Director of Sustainability, Leeds University Business School

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Work and Comparative Employment Relations and Director of Sustainability at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe, her interests focus on the dynamics of restructuring of organizations and the labour market and its impact on workers’ responses, their working biographies, and precarious outcomes. This leads to research into climate change and just transition, platform work and mobilization, precarity and class. Curretnly she is leading a research project on Just Transition and climate change in 12 countries.

https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1990/just-transition-action-concepts-debates-strategies

As a Director of Sustainability at LUBS she is leading on a Blueprint programme that implements the new Faculty’s Strategy to become net zero by 2030. LUBS has been leading the way with initiatives to implement sustainability into the curriculum and beyond.

Professor Liz Warren
Head of International Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Professor Yingqi (Annie) Wei
Deputy Pro Dean for Research & Innovation, Leeds University Business School

Yingqi (Annie) Wei is a Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, the University of Leeds. She currently serves as Deputy Pro Dean Research and Innovation, following the tenures of UOA17 Lead for REF2021 and Head of International Business department. Previously she worked at York, Rutgers, Bradford, Sheffield and Lancaster. Annie is a fellow of British Academy of Management Peer Review College (PRC) and a member of Future Leaders Fellowships PRC. She also served as Treasurer of Academy of International Business (UK & Ireland Chapter) and President of Chinese Economics Association (CEA). Annie’s main research interests are on the determinants and impact of foreign direct investment and the internationalization strategy and performance of emerging market multinationals. Her research has appeared in leading journals of different fields including Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, British Journal of Management, Business History, Regional Studies, and World Development.

Jennifer Wilkinson
Director of Student Recruitment & Business Development, London Metropolitan University

Jennifer Wilkinson is Director of Student Recruitment & Business Development at London Metropolitan University, leading the International Development, UK Recruitment, Widening Participation & Outreach, Enquiries & Conversion and Academic Partnerships & Short Courses areas.

Jenny has over a decade of experience in higher education recruitment and business development, with particular expertise in partnership development and relationship management across both global and domestic markets.  She has previously worked at institutions across London including King's College London, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Roehampton.

Outside London Met Jenny is a Trustee at ArtsEd, sits on the UniQuest UK Advisory Board, and is a Member Leader for NAFSA’s EAKC Health & Safety Subcommittee and The Forum on Education Abroad’s Climate Justice & Education Abroad Working Group.  She also holds an Academic Associate position at the UCL Institute of Education.  She is currently working towards her PhD at UCL, exploring the intersection between internationalisation and climate action in higher education.

Professor Alison Wolf CBE
King’s Business School, King's College London

Alison Wolf CBE is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. She sits as a non-affiliated peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the House of Lords. She specialises in the relationship between education and the labour market and is seconded part-time to government as the Prime Minister’s expert adviser on skills.

Professor the Baroness Wolf was a panel member for the ‘Augar Review’: the independent Review of Post-18 Education and Funding chaired by Sir Philip Augar, which was appointed by the then-Prime Minister (Theresa May), and reported in 2019. Many of its recommendations have been accepted and are being implemented. In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Report which led to major reforms in vocational education for 14-18 year olds.

Professor Baback Yazdani
Executive Dean, Nottingham Business School

Baback Yazdani is Professor of Product Development and the Executive Dean of Nottingham Business School (NBS), the UK’s top business school for personalisation and experiential learning, integrating research, teaching and industrial collaboration in business, economics and management research and education. During his Deanship since 2007, NBS has gone through a period of growth and transformation to become a leading business school by ranking and accreditations.

He plays a key role in the development of business research and education. As well as being the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Academy of Business in Society (ABIS), Baback is a Board Member of European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Council Member and Treasurer of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). He is also former regional chairman of the CBI in East Midlands and member of its influential national chairmen's committee, and a former member of Board of Trustees and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Baback is an international expert in the automotive industry, product design and development and Lean management, advising CEOs and senior executives of major industries. He is fluent in four languages and has a wealth of experience from his senior academic roles at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, as well as extensive senior leadership roles in industry and international business (US and Europe), including Director of Product Development at Jaguar Land Rover, and Director of Business and Operations at Premier Automotive Group: JLR, Volvo, Aston Martin and Lincoln Mercury in the USA and also a member of the Anderson School of Management’s Advisory Board.

Baback is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of Chartered ABS, a Companion of the CMI, Principal Fellow of HEA and member of the Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and British Academy of Management. He is also an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Graduate School of Management and a Visiting Professor at University of Technology Malaysia. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Wales) and is also Chartered Engineer, has an MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (Warwick) and a PhD in Product Development (Warwick) and also completed a Leadership Program for Senior Executives from Harvard Business School.

Professor Kemi Yekini
Professor of Accounting, School of Finance and Management, SOAS University of London

Kemi Yekini is a Professor of Accounting, a qualified Chartered Accountant, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. She is presently the convenor for the BSc Accounting and Finance Programme in SOAS, having previously held the directorship of doctoral studies. Before joining SOAS, Kemi had held various leadership roles in professional practice and other HE institutions. At Leicester Business School, she found and provided leadership for the Centre for Research in Accountability, Governance and Sustainability (CRAGS), a multidisciplinary research centre. Her research interest is driven by her many years of professional practice and industry experience and is mainly centred around accountability and transparency in corporate disclosure practices with a keen interest in CSR communication. She has been instrumental in taking research in CSR communication forward by introducing a linguistic-based methodology. She interprets CSR to encompass many aspects of social and environmental interactions and has a particular interest in understanding a firm’s interaction with its corporate and extended environment through high-quality disclosures. She engages in knowledge exchange partnerships with industry in this area. She works closely with sustainability reporting consultants to review the written language of the sustainability reports of their clients.

Dr Mazia Yassim
Head of School, Management and Marketing, University of Greenwich

Gala Dinner: Waldorf Hilton Hotel, Monday 7 November

This year's Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner takes place at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel (Aldwych, London WC2B 4DD)

The Dinner is an excellent opportunity for informal networking.

The evening will commence with a Drinks Reception from 19:00. Dinner will be served at 20:00. Dress code: smart casual.

Dinner Address

The Dinner Address will be delivered by the Rt Hon. Professor Lord David Blunkett, Co-Chair, Higher Education Commission.

David will share his thoughts and reflections about the Learning & Skills White Paper.

Venue

This years’ conference takes place at:

etc.venues, County Hall
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 7PB

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