The London Enterprise Office

Bio

An international outlook combined with a lifetime interest in how people learn has produced a management practitioner with academic interests and reflection, and an academic with practitioner insights and instincts

Experience

Working across a wide range of national business contexts and cultures, and teaching international students and those from London’s many different racial and ethnic groups, has developed a keen understanding of diversity issues so important for global business competitiveness. A training in science and engineering coupled with the creativity and flair of a career in marketing and the grasp of the larger canvas of socio-economic trends from the social sciences makes for a combination of attributions and skills useful to any organisation intent on business success.

•A strategic thinker, with a demonstrated capacity for innovation and enterprise
•Proven track record of strategy development and delivery in competitive environments
•Substantial experience of both industry and higher education at a senior level and of the linkage between the two
•Researcher and writer on strategy and corporate social responsibility
•Specialist professional expertise in ICT

Area of Expertise: Strategy development and implementation; international business; corporate ethics.

Qualifications

2002 – 2005: MA (Distinction) Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, London Metropolitan University
1992 – 1996: PhD, University of Edinburgh
1981 – 1982: MBA, University of Bradford

Membership of Professional Associations

Fellow, Royal Society for the Advancement of arts, manufactures and commerce (FRSA)
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy