Our People
Our Community
The School of Management harnesses the expertise and experience of phenomenal people from diverse backgrounds to deliver our education and research programmes. Together with our students and alumni, we form a community of passionate academics with real-world knowledge, researchers who are keen to deliver innovations with societal impact and we are supported and guided by a very prestigious group of international advisors.
I am enormously proud of everyone involved in the School of Management and their shared aspiration to develop a thriving, inclusive and socially engaged community through responsible management education and research.
This is a community that empowers change.
Sankar Sivarajah
Head of School of Management
Senior Management Team and Heads of Research Centres
Professor Vishanth Weerakkody
Interim Dean and Professor of Digital Governance
Professor Vishanth Weerakkody joined the School of Management at University of Bradford in March 2017 as Professor in Management Information Systems and Governance. In 2018, Professor Weerakkody was appointed to the role as Head of the School of Management and in 2019 accepted an interim position as Dean providing strategic oversight on the development of the Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences.
He was previously a Professor of Digital Governance at the Business School in Brunel University, London where he held several leadership roles.
Prior to his academic career, Prof Weerakkody worked in a number of multinational organisations, including IBM UK.
He has a successful track record of Research and Enterprise and has secured numerous research grants from funding bodies such as the European Commission (FP7 & H2020), Economic and Social Research Council, Qatar Foundation and UK Local Government.
His R&D expertise spans several disciplines including, management decision making, ICT evaluation, public administration, social Innovation and process transformation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research and a Handling Editor for Information Systems Frontiers. He is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Professor Sankar Sivarajah
Head of the School of Management and Head of the BACES Research Centre
Sankar Sivarajah joined the School of Management at the University of Bradford in December 2017 and is a Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy. He is currently the Head of School of Management and the Head of Business Analytics, Circular Economy and Supply Chain Research Centre. He was also part of the University’s Research Practice Innovation Group led by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Engagement) to help shape the University’s 2020-25 Research and Innovation (R&I) strategy.
His passion for research and teaching is interdisciplinary in nature focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, be it in a business or government context.
He is currently engaged in research and teaching in the field of circular economy and responsible use of technology by businesses and governments. He is experienced in designing and developing award-winning industry-relevant degree programmes in fields such as Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
He is a Deputy Editor of Journal of Enterprise Information Management and has published over 50 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research has featured in reputable media/trade publications such as BBC Yorkshire, Computer Weekly, The Conversation, Public Sector Focus and London School of Economics academic blog.
To date, he has a successful track of record as Principal and Co-investigator in over £3 million worth of R&I and consultancy projects funded by national, international funding bodies and commercial organisations. Some of the notable funders have been the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Innovate UK/DEFRA and British Council focusing on projects addressing business and societal challenges surrounding themes such as Blockchain use in Financial Services, Smart Waste and Cities, Energy-efficient data centres, Social innovation and Participatory Budgeting (currently being developed as an impact case). Some of the key past and present industry and public sector partners that he has collaborations with are Fraunhofer, Deloitte, Thales, Enel, Telefonica, Vodafone, Leeds Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Cambridgeshire County Council, Hounslow Council, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Arup and PA Consulting to name a few.
He was awarded a PhD in 2014 in Management Information Systems from Brunel University London, which focused on the development of a technology evaluation and impact assessment framework for local government authorities. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Business and Management specialising in Computer Sciences from Brunel University London and MSc with Distinction in Management specialising in Entrepreneurship from The City Business School (previously known as Cass), City University London.
He was also recognised and awarded by The City Business School an honorary membership to the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) society, an international honour society recognizing business excellence. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and Association for Information Systems (AIS). He tweets at @SankarSivarajah.
Professor Amir Sharif
Associate Dean International & Accreditations and Professor of Circular Economy
Amir joined the University in his new role as Associate Dean (International) in August 2017 coming from Brunel University London, where he was Professor of Operations Management and the Founding Director of the Operations and Supply Chain Systems (OASIS) research group within Brunel Business School.
Leadership and management roles
He was also an appointed member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London and a past member of Senate. Amir has previously held a number of senior leadership and management roles within Brunel Business School, including as Head of School and also has been Assistant Head, Acting Director of the Doctoral Programme, Director of MBA Programmes, and Director of Teaching and Learning.
Prior to his academic career, Amir worked extensively within the Financial Services and Professional Services sector, working for and consulting with many of the world’s leading multinational corporations, including JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank, KPMG Consulting, BAE Systems, Sony, and the BBC. He brings a wealth of experience in terms of both internationalisation of programmes and overseas global partnerships (predominantly across MENA, GCC and South Asia) – and has successfully lead, directed and contributed to key accreditations including AACSB and AMBA. Amir also has experience in gaining programme recognition and accreditations from a number of leading UK chartered bodies and PSRBs for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Research
In parallel with his industry experiences, Amir remained and continues to be research-active and continues to be an active member on grant funding bodies. He has been re-elected in successive years to be a member of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, whilst also having provided his expertise to a number of other leading national and international research funding bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission (EU), the British Academy, the British Council, the Czech Research Foundation (CRF), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), the Natural and National Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and the Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF).
His key teaching and research interests cross a diverse mix of topics including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management and Leadership Decision-Making and Operations Research. These are across a range of sectors such as manufacturing, FMCG, central and local government, humanitarian logistics, financial services, and more recently, food security / waste, the food-energy-water nexus and the circular economy. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and has been recognised for his academic contributions from publishers and societies alike.
Amir’s research was identified in 2014 by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel for Business and Management as of “outstanding international reputation and impact” for research conducted with the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in applying “soft” operations research modelling techniques in order to evaluate the impact of European Union farming subsidies on the UK agribusiness sector and the resulting effect on UK climate change policy.
Press and media
He continues to be active in the popular press and media, contributing and being quoted in articles in newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times (of London), The Independent, WIRED (UK edition), as well as being an ad-hoc columnist for University Business magazine. Amir is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (FCILT), the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM) and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).
Dr Hatice Kizgin
Associate Dean Learning & Teaching
Dr Jing Li
Associate Dean Research & Knowledge Transfer
Jing joined University of Bradford, School of Management, as a Lecturer in Accounting in 2008, and became Senior Lecturer in Accounting in March 2012 and then Reader in Accounting in May 2017. Before joining the School of Management as a lecturer, Jing studied for a PhD in accounting at the School. She has an MA in Finance, Accounting and Management and a bachelors degree in Business and Management Studies.
During the 10 years of working at the School, Jing has been entrusted with various academic leadership and administrative roles, including Stage tutor (levels 5 & 6 students), Director of Studies for BSc Accounting & Finance programme for over 4 years, Deputy Head for Accounting, Finance and Economics Division, Impact Champion (from Nov 2017 onwards), and more recently Interim Associate Dean - Research & Knowledge Transfer (from June 2018). Jing serves on various university and faculty committees and is currently the coordinator for UoA C17 Business and Management Studies for REF2021.
Professor Nripendra Rana
Head of International Business, Marketing & Branding Research Centre
Professor Nripendra Rana has held several strategic roles in the School of Management at Swansea University, UK including Deputy Head, Department of Business and Director of Post Graduate Research (PGR). With an academic and professional background in Mathematics and Computer Science, Rana completed his MBA (with distinction) and PhD at Swansea University, UK. His current research interests focus on the adoption of emerging and disruptive technologies, digital and social media marketing, Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities, Open Data and the use of ICT for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
Rana is an experienced quantitative researcher and his work has been published in leading academic journals such as European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Government Information Quarterly, Computers in Human Behavior, Annals of Operations Research. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Information Technology & People, Public Management Review, Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Enterprise Information Management.
Rana’s extensive research-led teaching has been well received by all student groups at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He also designs and delivers training on innovative data analysis techniques such as interpretive structural modelling, interpretive ranking processes, meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modelling (MASEM) to PhD students and members of teaching staff across universities worldwide.
Professor Neil Anderson
Head of People, Organizations & Entrepreneurship Research Centre
I am Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of the People, Organizations and Entrepreneurship Research Centre at the Bradford School of Management from September this year. I obtained my PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Aston University in 1989, and have previously held chairs at the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Having published in several areas spanning HRM and Organizational Psychology over a number of years. I am Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and Division 14 of the APA (the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology), Fellow of the IAAP, and an Academic Fellow of the CIPD.
Having published over 100 refereed papers, 20 books, and over 60 book chapters, my scholarly work has appeared in a number of the top-tier journals in the field including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, Human Performance, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. In addition, I have also co-edited a number of major handbooks including the Blackwell Handbook of Selection (2005) and the Handbook of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology published by Sage (2001/2017). As a former Editor and Associate Editor, I continue to serve on the international editorial boards of several other scholarly journals including the Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, amongst others.
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I have built up wide experience of departmental and university management roles, and over the years I have won funding from research councils and third-wave foundations in three countries, including a Leverhulme Trust funded centre into innovation research in the workplace, and, most recently, NASA (the MARS mission project). In total, I have won in excess of 3 million pounds of research support from a wide range of funding bodies in several countries.
Having previously been Visiting Professor to several universities in the UK, China and the USA, I am currently Visiting Professor at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands) and the University of Valencia (Spain). Retaining a close interest in the practical application of scientific research in human resource management practices in organizations, I have also consulted to numerous organizations in the UK, Europe, and the USA on issues relating to personnel psychology and organizational performance, including British Aerospace, the British Army, Shell, Saville Consulting, and NASA in the USA (Jupiter and MARS Missions).
Professor Saeed Akbar
Head of Accounting, Finance & Economics Research Centre
Professor Saeed Akbar is a Professor in Accounting and Finance, and Head of Accounting, Finance and Economics at the University of Bradford School of Management. He has published his research in leading national and international journals and has taught core courses in Accounting and Finance at the University of Liverpool, University of Hull, University of Bradford and other prestigious institutions. He has also worked in the industry as Assistant Manager Accounts for over three years. His main research interests include, Market Based Accounting Research, Accounting Disclosure and Regulation, Corporate Governance, Empirical Finance and Performance Measurement.
Chris Kaushal-Bolland
Head of Operations
With over 25-years experience working as a senior manager in both public and private sector organisations, Chris has provided leadership on complex change programmes, challenged existing ways of working and influenced strategic thinking to improve efficiencies and organisational effectiveness.
He has an interest in approaches to organisational change, the impact on organisational culture, the effect on staff attitudes and how ‘ethical’ transformational leadership can bring about positive results.
As an an NLP Master Practioner he has blended his inquisitive psychoanalytical perspective with his post-structural and post-modernist stance to undertake doctoral research studies at the University of Bradford’s Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences.
International Advisory Board
Our International Advisory Board includes prominent leaders from a broad range of public and private industry sectors, international markets and business disciplines.
They provide independent, external and commercially informed advice that enables us to deliver inspiring and world-class education and research. Our board members support and provide fresh perspective on the development, relevancy and impact of our curriculum, student experience, our international strategic planning, partnership development, external affairs and alumni engagement.
Louise Sargeant
IAB Chair - Chief Finance Officer at The American International University, Richmond
Louise is currently the Chief Finance Officer at the American International University, Richmond after spending some time specialising in change management and improving financial sustainability, at the British Council and a government funded research institute. Her previous education experience in both large (University College London) and medium-sized (Brunel University) higher education institutions, has always been underpinned with business acumen, gained during the early part of her career. Louise understands, and is able to effectively lead, the full suite of operations, having also been a Vice Principal and Director of Operations and during that time developed complementary strategies. Louise is able to align the financial resource allocation to the strategic desires of an organisation by driving behaviours, such as openness and transparency.
Her expertise and successes include large scale capital projects and system implementations and an ability to design processes that enable effective governance and financial controls. Prior to working in the charity sector Louise has been fortunate to have worked for large private corporations and a variety of SME's. Alongside this track record, Louise has been Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK Board and is currently an elected member of Council until June 2023. Interested in pushing the boundaries of research into accounting and currently a member of the Thought Leadership Committee coupled with providing support through the Benevolent Fund Committee.
This comprehensive range of work experience coupled with a keen interest in all aspects of professional development, employability and diversity enables Louise to contribute widely across an organisation.
Professor Stephen A Greyser
Harvard Business School
Stephen A Greyser is Richard P Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, where he specialises in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, he has been active in research and teaching at HBS since 1958. He was also an editor at the Harvard Business Review and later its Editorial Board Secretary and Board Chairman. He is responsible for 16 books, numerous journal articles, several special editions of journals, and over 300 published HBS case studies.
At HBS, he developed the Corporate Communications elective, creating over 40 cases and articles on issues management, corporate sponsorship, relations among business-media-publics, etc. His current research (co-authored) and most recent published articles are on the branding and identity of the Nobel Prize, including “The Identity of a Heritage Brand” (2015) and integrating the Nobel Prize’s identity and reputation (2016).
He created and teaches Harvard’s Business of Sports course, is a member of the University’s Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics, has served on the Selection Committee for the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, is on the board of The Sports Museum, and has authored numerous Business of Sports cases and articles.
Susan Kaeppeler
Chief Commercial Officer, Alphabet Germany - BMW Group Company
Susan is a natural leader with many years of professional experience in business development, international sales & marketing in the automotive industry.
Susan is passionate about driving the digital transforming of businesses with a clear focus on true customer centricity (“love the problem, not the solution”).
In addition to that she’s got high expertise in planning, refining and executing commercial strategies to maximise sales performance and profitability.
Dr Majed Yaghi
Vice President - Global Accounts The Coca-Cola Company
Majed is a Vice President- Global Accounts at The Coca-Cola Company based in Dallas, Texas where he is responsible for leading a group of global customers worldwide.
Majed joined Coca-Cola in 1998 and brings a wealth of strategic sales and marketing expertise with Fortune 100 companies. Having started his career with Warner Lambert as sales supervisor, Majed advanced his global positioning through an extensive career with Gillette and Kimberly-Clark. At Coca-Cola, he led North America channel strategy for convenience retail and collaborated with the US National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) to launch several initiatives including NACS CAFÉ (NACS Center For Advancing Foodservice Excellence); an educational platform to develop the skills of member retailers. Additionally, he collaborated with Goizueta Business School at EMORY University to coach two student teams on the prestigious GMSC competition.
Majed is past Vice Chair- International Board of Advisors, of Art Reach Foundation, a non-profit specializing in rehabilitation of conflict-stricken children; former board member of Alif Institute, a cultural center promoting Arab American socialism in U.S.; and former chair of the local school council for Alpharetta High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Parallel to his corporate duties, Majed recently completed his doctorate of business administration at the University of Bradford focusing on toxic leadership and organizational culture.
Dr Don Lloyd
Global Managing Partner
Don Lloyd has served as the Global Managing Partner of Oil & Gas at ERM. He has over 35 years of industrial experience including process operations, project management, process design, insurance, business risk management. He worked in a number of roles/sectors including Head of Technical Services with CIGNA International Insurance; VP, Technical Services with Amersham plc; Dean of Brunel University Business School & Professor of Risk Management and Group Senior Vice
Prof Robert Galliers
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Former Provost at Bentley University
Professor Galliers is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bentley University in Boston, USA, having served as Provost during the period 2002-2009, and as the University Distinguished Professor subsequently, until his retirement in 2017. Bentley gained EQUIS and EDMBA accreditation under his leadership and AACSB and NEASC accreditations were reconfirmed in addition.
Previously, he was Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE). Before joining the LSE, he served as Lucas Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School, and earlier as Foundation Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University in Australia.
He serves on the international advisory boards of a number of business schools, including those at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands; Turku University, Finland, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. He served on EFMD's EQUIS Accreditation Board for the period 2009-2016 and its Global Network Americas Advisory Board from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ (CABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide since 2014. He also served and on the Guide’s Scientific Committee as the nominee of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) from 2012 to 2016.
He holds an AB (honors) degree in Economics from Harvard University; a Master's degree with distinction in Management Systems from Lancaster University; a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics, and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Finland.
He is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems; one of eight IS journals recognized for their quality by the Senior Scholars of the AIS. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and the Association for Information Systems (FAIS), of which he was President in 1999. He received the AIS LEO Award for exceptional lifetime achievement in Information Systems in 2012. He has been keynote speaker at more than 60 major international conferences and symposia including the European Conference on IS; the Australasian Conference on IS; the Scandinavian Conference on IS; the UKAIS Conference; and the Mediterranean Conference on IS.
He has had published approaching 100 articles in many leading international journals on information systems and management, and has authored or co-authored eleven books, including The Routledge Handbook on Management Information Systems (Routledge 2015); The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems (Oxford University Press, 2011); Strategic Information Management 4th edition (Routledge, 2009); Exploring Information Systems Research Approaches: Readings and Reflections (Routledge, 2007); Rethinking Management Information Systems (Oxford University Press, 1999), and IT and Organizational Transformation (Wiley, 1998). The Companion to the Routledge Handbook is to be published in 2017.
His research is transdisciplinary in nature, focusing primarily on organizational innovation/transformation and the associated management of change issues; the processes and practices of information systems strategizing; organizational knowing, and the intra- and extra-organizational impacts of information & communication technologies. He has supervised 27 PhD students to completion and his work has been cited over 10,000 times according to Google Scholar.
Dr Cordula Barzantny
Professor of Human Resource Management - Toulouse Business School
Dr Cordula Barzantny is Professor of Human Resource Management with a particular focus on International and Intercultural Management at Toulouse Business School. She is also strongly involved in AeroSpace business and management education development.
Cordula has conceived various AeroSpace Management degree programmes (MBA, MiM…) and launched the first AeroSpace MBA Programme for Toulouse Business School in 1999-2000. She has also developed several international academic and corporate partnerships for TBS, particularly in the high-tech industry and the aerospace sector, recently with IIM Bangalore as well as with Air France Industries for Executive Education.
Her main research interests are in cross-cultural management and leadership, multi-cultural teams and workgroup diversity, culture change and corporate control. With these topics, she is a regular facilitator for Executive Development Programmes and works on various consulting, coaching and training assignments with corporations such as Airbus Group (formerly EADS), Thales Alenia Space, Alcatel Space, British Aerospace, EADS, ICL Europe, Paribas, Siemens, Sigfox and others. Cordula was for more than 10 years Visiting Professor at Arizona State University and continues to be invited by international university programmes around the world.
Greg Hobbs
Programme Director, AFRP - UK Ministry of Defence
Greg has been a Civil Servant for over 16 years, specialising in transformational change specifically with a focus on people. Now as a Senior Civil Servant, Greg has worked in a number of government departments and is currently the Programme Director of the Armed Forces Recruiting Programme: a £1.9bn programme redesigning the way in which the UK Armed Forces recruit into their number, and then implementing the new system which will keep the candidate at its heart.
Previously Greg was head of the Civil Service Fast Stream graduate programme which he took to No. 1 in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers, the public sector graduate employer of choice and the No. 1 HR Graduate Employer. As part of his continuing focus on inclusion Greg oversaw a programme of work to improve the diversity of the Fast Stream, including social mobility which saw the Fast Stream rise to No.9 in the Social Mobility Index.
Alongside his role in the Ministry of Defence, Greg is a Director of Transform Society – a not for profit organisation which focuses on improving the employability of graduates into the public sector; a primary school Governor and a Flag American Football Coach for Solent RedStorm – an inclusive youth organisation in Southampton providing non-contact American Football.
Christophe Germain
Dean of Shenzhen Audencia Business School
Christophe Germain is currently Dean of Shenzhen Audencia Business School and Vice-Dean of Audencia Business School in charge of offshore programs. Previously he served as Acting Dean (2016) and Associate Dean for the faculty (2007-2015) at Audencia Business School.
His research and teaching experience is in Accounting and Finance and his most recent research explores the economic model of European Football clubs. He earned his PhD from Bordeaux University for his research on performance management systems. He is a member of the Centre for Financial Risk Management at Audencia Business School.
Since September 2016 he has served on the Academic Board of the Football Business Academy (Geneva – Switzerland) and, since September 2017, on the International Advisory Board of the Faculty of Business Administration at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (Chengdu – China).
Dr Phil Dervan
Vice President, Corporate Business Development, SAP
Phil Dervan is a vice president within the SAP Global Design team, responsible for UX outbound Product Management and Partner Management. In this role, Phil is responsible for developing and executing programs that leverage the Partner ecosystem to drive SAP market share gains, accelerate customer success and expand ecosystem readiness.
An 18 year experienced veteran at SAP, Phil has held leadership roles in Pre-Sales, Global Sales Operations, Business Development and Solution Management. In 2002, Phil relocated to the USA from his native England in 2002, and lives in the Boston area with his wife and 3 daughters.
Prior to SAP, Phil has more than 15 years of expertise in various line of business roles, as well as in divisional General Management roles at Pirelli in Europe.
Phil holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Southampton in the UK.
Vicky Williams
CEO, Emerald Publishing
Vicky has held a variety of senior roles in publishing, including Head of Publishing Development, Director of Business Development and Marketing, Group Director of People, and CEO of Emerald’s creative business, Research Media. She became Emerald Publishing’s CEO in January 2018, focussing on equipping the business to respond to the increasing challenges and many opportunities facing academic publishing today.
Vicky is a keen advocate for gender diversity, launching Emerald’s workplace gender diversity programme in 2015.
Dr Chris Dickinson
Senior Specialist at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in South Korea
Dr Chris Dickinson is currently Senior Specialist at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in South Korea where he is responsible for the development of investment in ecosystems and nature-based solutions for climate action. The Green Climate Fund – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement - is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their national ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. One of his key tasks is coordinating and supporting the GCF’s Africa’s Great Green Wall program which aims to mobilize public and private sector funds to tackle climate change goals in sub-Saharan Africa. Chris has over 25 years’ experience in tackling global climate challenges and is interested in mobilizing private sector finance for farmers and small business; developing finance mechanisms for ecosystem management; and in supporting no-deforestation commodity supply chains. Previously he served as Deputy Director for the Investment Policy Division of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI’s); and he has held positions with the UN Development Program (UNDP), and non-government organizations including the global conservation organization - WWF. He has a PhD degree in Tropical Forest Conservation.
Owais Mohammad
Vice President, Relationship Director – Professional & Financial Services, Barclays Bank
After completing his early education in Karachi (Pakistan), Owais moved to the UK to pursue further education and graduated from the University’s School of Management in 2007 with a BSc (hons) in Accounting & Finance.
During his time at the university, Owais immersed himself into the university’s culture and pursued his passion for music. With the help of the Tasmin Little Music Centre he went on to forming the University’s very own first ever South Asian pop rock band playing across various events including the University’s 40th anniversary. His involvement with the institute led him to feature on the front cover of the university’s prospectus and advertising campaign in 2006.
Following his graduation, Owais moved to Dubai to work for the country’s largest private real estate developer, Damac Properties, where he excelled in new business origination and was successful opened up new markets for the business.
Following on from success in Dubai, Owais moved back to the UK and joined Barclays Bank Plc on their graduate programme. At Barclays, Owais has had a very successful career to date spanning over 10 years and accumulating significant core banking experience across Retail Leadership, Risk Governance, International Trade, Credit Risk and Corporate Banking Coverage. During his time at the bank, Owais has championed the diversity & inclusion agenda across North West and has recently been appointed as VP Relationship Director to set up the Professional & Financial Services portfolio for the Corporate banking team in West & North Yorkshire. The move has given him the opportunity to return to the region and reconnect with the institute as a member of the International Advisory Board where he is looking forward to having a positive impact and helping drive the strategy forward.
Professor Amir Sharif
Dean of Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences and Professor of Circular Economy
Amir joined the University in his new role as Associate Dean (International) in August 2017 coming from Brunel University London, where he was Professor of Operations Management and the Founding Director of the Operations and Supply Chain Systems (OASIS) research group within Brunel Business School.
Leadership and management roles
He was also an appointed member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London and a past member of Senate. Amir has previously held a number of senior leadership and management roles within Brunel Business School, including as Head of School and also has been Assistant Head, Acting Director of the Doctoral Programme, Director of MBA Programmes, and Director of Teaching and Learning.
Prior to his academic career, Amir worked extensively within the Financial Services and Professional Services sector, working for and consulting with many of the world’s leading multinational corporations, including JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank, KPMG Consulting, BAE Systems, Sony, and the BBC. He brings a wealth of experience in terms of both internationalisation of programmes and overseas global partnerships (predominantly across MENA, GCC and South Asia) – and has successfully lead, directed and contributed to key accreditations including AACSB and AMBA. Amir also has experience in gaining programme recognition and accreditations from a number of leading UK chartered bodies and PSRBs for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Research
In parallel with his industry experiences, Amir remained and continues to be research-active and continues to be an active member on grant funding bodies. He has been re-elected in successive years to be a member of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, whilst also having provided his expertise to a number of other leading national and international research funding bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission (EU), the British Academy, the British Council, the Czech Research Foundation (CRF), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), the Natural and National Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and the Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF).
His key teaching and research interests cross a diverse mix of topics including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management and Leadership Decision-Making and Operations Research. These are across a range of sectors such as manufacturing, FMCG, central and local government, humanitarian logistics, financial services, and more recently, food security / waste, the food-energy-water nexus and the circular economy. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and has been recognised for his academic contributions from publishers and societies alike.
Amir’s research was identified in 2014 by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel for Business and Management as of “outstanding international reputation and impact” for research conducted with the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in applying “soft” operations research modelling techniques in order to evaluate the impact of European Union farming subsidies on the UK agribusiness sector and the resulting effect on UK climate change policy.
Press and media
He continues to be active in the popular press and media, contributing and being quoted in articles in newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times (of London), The Independent, WIRED (UK edition), as well as being an ad-hoc columnist for University Business magazine. Amir is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (FCILT), the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM) and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).
Professor Vishanth Weerakkody
Associate Dean International and Enterprise, Professor of Digital Governance
Professor Vishanth Weerakkody joined the School of Management at University of Bradford in March 2017 as Professor in Management Information Systems and Governance. In 2018, Professor Weerakkody was appointed to the role as Head of the School of Management and in 2019 accepted an interim position as Dean providing strategic oversight on the development of the Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences.
He was previously a Professor of Digital Governance at the Business School in Brunel University, London where he held several leadership roles.
Prior to his academic career, Prof Weerakkody worked in a number of multinational organisations, including IBM UK.
He has a successful track record of Research and Enterprise and has secured numerous research grants from funding bodies such as the European Commission (FP7 & H2020), Economic and Social Research Council, Qatar Foundation and UK Local Government.
His R&D expertise spans several disciplines including, management decision making, ICT evaluation, public administration, social Innovation and process transformation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research and a Handling Editor for Information Systems Frontiers. He is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Professor Sankar Sivarajah
Head of the School of Management and Head of the BACES Research Centre
Sankar Sivarajah joined the School of Management at the University of Bradford in December 2017 and is a Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy. He is currently the Head of School of Management and the Head of Business Analytics, Circular Economy and Supply Chain Research Centre. He was also part of the University’s Research Practice Innovation Group led by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Engagement) to help shape the University’s 2020-25 Research and Innovation (R&I) strategy.
His passion for research and teaching is interdisciplinary in nature focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, be it in a business or government context.
He is currently engaged in research and teaching in the field of circular economy and responsible use of technology by businesses and governments. He is experienced in designing and developing award-winning industry-relevant degree programmes in fields such as Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
He is a Deputy Editor of Journal of Enterprise Information Management and has published over 50 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research has featured in reputable media/trade publications such as BBC Yorkshire, Computer Weekly, The Conversation, Public Sector Focus and London School of Economics academic blog.
To date, he has a successful track of record as Principal and Co-investigator in over £3 million worth of R&I and consultancy projects funded by national, international funding bodies and commercial organisations. Some of the notable funders have been the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Innovate UK/DEFRA and British Council focusing on projects addressing business and societal challenges surrounding themes such as Blockchain use in Financial Services, Smart Waste and Cities, Energy-efficient data centres, Social innovation and Participatory Budgeting (currently being developed as an impact case). Some of the key past and present industry and public sector partners that he has collaborations with are Fraunhofer, Deloitte, Thales, Enel, Telefonica, Vodafone, Leeds Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Cambridgeshire County Council, Hounslow Council, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Arup and PA Consulting to name a few.
He was awarded a PhD in 2014 in Management Information Systems from Brunel University London, which focused on the development of a technology evaluation and impact assessment framework for local government authorities. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Business and Management specialising in Computer Sciences from Brunel University London and MSc with Distinction in Management specialising in Entrepreneurship from The City Business School (previously known as Cass), City University London.
He was also recognised and awarded by The City Business School an honorary membership to the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) society, an international honour society recognizing business excellence. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and Association for Information Systems (AIS). He tweets at @SankarSivarajah.
Dr Jing Li
Associate Dean (Research Knowledge Transfer) University of Bradford
Jing joined University of Bradford, School of Management, as a Lecturer in Accounting in 2008, and became Senior Lecturer in Accounting in March 2012 and then Reader in Accounting in May 2017. Before joining the School of Management as a lecturer, Jing studied for a PhD in accounting at the School. She has an MA in Finance, Accounting and Management and a bachelors degree in Business and Management Studies.
During the 10 years of working at the School, Jing has been entrusted with various academic leadership and administrative roles, including Stage tutor (levels 5 & 6 students), Director of Studies for BSc Accounting & Finance programme for over 4 years, Deputy Head for Accounting, Finance and Economics Division, Impact Champion (from Nov 2017 onwards), and more recently Interim Associate Dean - Research & Knowledge Transfer (from June 2018). Jing serves on various university and faculty committees and is currently the coordinator for UoA C17 Business and Management Studies for REF2021.
Dr Hatice Kizgin
Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), University of Bradford
Hatice is the Associate Dean for Learning & Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Marketing Her research has investigated immigrants’ consumer behaviour and their acculturation trends. Her special research interest is into the non- Western communities with a strong positivist approach to research. She is actively involved in consultancy projects in the Netherlands. Hatice has published articles in leading academic journals including Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Technology and Forecasting, International Marketing Review, International Journal of Information Management, Production Planning and Control, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology and People, Annals of Operations and has presented her research in some of the prominent international conferences of marketing.
She is the Co-editor of the book “Advances in Theory and Practice of Digital Marketing”, Springer Publications. In addition she has co-edited special issues published by Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Consumer Behaviour and is the current co-editor for special issues in International Journal of Information Management. Hatice holds the position of Deputy Chair at Academy of Marketing Special Interest Group: Digital Marketing and Data Analytics https://www.academyofmarketing.org/sigs/digital-marketing-sig/.
She was nominated for Inspiring Woman 2019 award. She strongly values and support the positive impact of equality and diversity to enhance working environments and reputation.
Dr Amizan Omar
Director of Accreditation, University of Bradford
Amizan's research interest and expertise is interdisciplinary focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, especially in the context of public sector. This is due to her 15 years’ experience working on different portfolios in Malaysian public sector, including in Education, Human Resource and Transportation . Her current and evolving research interests include exploring the role of actors and structures in the adoption of digital-led transformation in the context of public service, implication of disruptive technology and circular economy on talent management, the ethics of artificial intelligence in the HRM context, the application of responsible management concepts in government policies and other public sector transformation in general.
Dr Natalie Wilmot
MBA Director
Natalie joined the University of Bradford as MBA Director in September 2019, following seven years at Sheffield Hallam University.
Her research centres around a long-standing interest in foreign language diversity in international business, and since 2016, she has been a member of the scientific committee and treasurer of GEM&L, a French-based, international scholarly body which investigates the relationship between language and management.
Her teaching interests are in the areas of cross-cultural management, management consulting, and global supply chain management, with a focus on the human-centred processes at the heart of such activities. Since 2017 she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, where she teaches a postgraduate course on intercultural communication.
Prior to joining academia, Natalie held a number of posts in the private sector, specialising in export sales and global supply chain management, and has worked extensively with organisations in southern Europe and Latin America.
Chris Kaushal-Bolland
Head of Operations
Chris joined the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences as the Head of Faculty Operations in August 2017 after completing assignments within Professional Services functions across the University as a Change Manager and Programme Manager respectively.
As the Head of Operations, Chris is a member of the faculty executive team and works strategically to support the strategic direction and development of the faculty. He leads faculty operations and a dynamic administrative team to shape and deliver an effective, flexible and responsive service to support positive shifts in organisational culture and transformational change.
Prior to joining higher education, Chris worked extensively across the National Health Service at local and national level and brought about transformational change and embraced the use of technology to improve patient care and positive outcomes.
In parallel with his professional career, Chris is an Executive MBA alumnus of the University of Bradford and continues to be research active by undertaking the DBA doctoral programme with a portfolio including organisational culture, change management and ethical transformational leadership.
Dr David Spicer
Director of Business Engagement
David is Director of Business Engagement in the Faculty of Management Law and Social Sciences and is leading on the development of the School of Management's programme and portfolio in respect of small business and entrepreneurship.In addition David is also programme leader for the School'd HRM degrees. David has over 20 years experience in higher education and returned to Bradford (where he began his academic career) at the start of the 2019/20 academic year, having previously led the Business School at the University of Salford. David is a member of the People, Organisations and Entrepreneurship research cluster, and his research interests include organisational learning, change and leadership and he has undertaken research and consultancy and delivered executive education in both SMEs and with large corporate firms. He currently teaches on both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes within the School of Management.
Elaine Dean
Business Engagement Manager
Elaine joined the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences as the Business Engagement Manager in April 2019, having worked in the University in various teams in project management and business development roles; linking university support for businesses and the regional community and creating opportunities for businesses to work with the academic team and students to realise the benefits of work based learning.
As the Business Engagement Manager for the Faculty, Elaine manages the delivery of the business and community engagement strategy; focuses on developing strong links with industry and our alumni, to deliver market leading research and development opportunities which benefit students, graduates and employers of the future. In particular Elaine manages the delivery of the Knowledge Transfer Network, the Career Booster Programme and coordinates the appointment and integration of the Faculty Community Fellows.
Elaine’s previous experience to the university, was in commercial and operational management roles in Burberry plc, looking after the manufacture of the £12m product portfolio for worldwide Burberry fabric sales.
Elaine is an alumnus of the Executive MBA Programme.
MBA Industry Advisory Board
Our MBA Industry Advisory Board includes representatives from faculty, MBA alumni and our academic and business partners.
They support the School of Management in achieving and maintaining the world-class status of our MBA programs. Our board members support the MBA program’s strategy planning, curriculum development, student placement and business engagement.
Sajid Azeb
IAB Chair - Chief Operating Officer at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Saj has worked across several NHS organisations and has significant experience in dealing with complex service issues through the various operational and strategic management roles he has held over his 20 year career within the NHS. He currently works at The Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust after being successfully appointed as Chief Operating Officer in October 2020. Prior to this Saj has worked at Leeds Teaching Hospitals since March 2016.
Having joined the NHS in a clinical capacity as an Orthoptist in 2000, he moved into a career in NHS Management in 2003, whilst at the same time undertaking a Masters in Business Administration.
Saj is an experienced leader and has skills across performance, budgetary, personnel and service development functions. He is a highly regarded individual and has established an excellent reputation for service delivery amongst clinical and management colleagues both at a local and regional level.
Emma Stapleton
IAB Deputy Chair - Managing Director at Prince Lionheart
Emma is the Managing Director of the European division of Prince Lionheart, a Californian baby product brand.
Emma started her career working in-house at ASDA with their central marketing team at the retailer’s headquarters in Leeds. She then moved to Elmwood, a global brand consultancy, where she played a lead role in the growing the business geographically and developing the client base to include some of the world’s largest fast-moving consumer goods businesses. She has spent a significant amount of time based in Singapore and New York, establishing business in Asia and the US.
Emma started her MBA at Bradford’s SOM in 2013 and completed late 2015 with distinction.
Ameer Sameer Khan
Director, Bank of America
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Ameer Khan is a seasoned COO with a proven track record of leading high performing teams across diverse industries in fast-paced environments. Over 18 years of hands-on experience in leading large and complex change programmes across Corporate Strategy, Regulatory Compliance and Technology.
Andreas Beckmann
Managing Director, WWF Central and Eastern Europe
As Managing Director of WWF Central and Eastern Europe, Andreas Beckmann is responsible for leading and coordinating the efforts of WWF, the global conservation organisation, to ensure a living planet for nature and people in and from the Central and Southeastern Europe. „WWF-CEE“ seeks to preserve the „Green Heart of Europe“, including globally important forests, wetlands and wildlife and promote long-term sustainable local development. The organisation currently employs ca 150 staff working from WWF-Romania, -Bulgaria, -Hungary, -Slovakia and –Ukraine as well as in Moldova (www.panda.org/cee).
Previous to his current position, Andreas worked at WWF as deputy director for the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme, the predecessor of „WWF-CEE“ (2005-09) and as EU Accession Coordinator (2001-05). Before coming to work for WWF in 2001, Andreas spent 10 years living and working in Prague, the last five years managing communications and development as well as regional coordination for the Environmental Partnership (www.environmentalpartnership.org), a consortium of foundations dedicated to fostering partnership action for the enviroment and local communities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
Andreas has served on the boards of a number of organisations including the Czech and Slovak Environmental Partnership Foundations, Greenpeace Czech Republic, WWF-Hungary, WWF-Romania, WWF-Bulgaria, WWF-Slovakia, WWF-Ukraine, the WWF-Mediterranean Programme and WWF-Adria, and has written extensively about the environment and local development in Central and Eastern Europe.
Andreas recently completed an MBA in Innovation and Circular Economy at the University of Bradford and has studied History, Politics and International Relations at Stanford University (cand PhD, MA) and Swarthmore College (BA with High Honors) in the US, the University of Köln in Germany (Fulbright Scholarship), and in Moscow. He also holds a certificate in conservation leadership from the WWF Conservation College.
Born in 1968, Andreas lives in Vienna and is married to the artist Lena Knilli, with whom he has two daughters, Lucie Jo and Isa Franziska Knilli.
Jasmeet (Jas) Narang
Operational Excellence & Control Services Director, Santander Operations UK
Jasmeet (Jas) Narang is currently Operational Excellence & Control Services Director at Santander Operations UK, a shared service for Santander in the UK. He has over 25 years’ experience in global financial services. He is a qualified Six Sigma ‘Master Black Belt’ and has held roles leading large operational teams, commercial portfolios and also project/ digital transformation and supplier management functions. Originally from Delhi, India, after his degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA in marketing, Jas worked for GE Capital for over 13 years in various roles spanning four different countries. From an intern in India to roles in Six Sigma, sales, operations, commercial and supplier management functions in India, Japan and the US finally ending up in the UK in 2002.
Jas is also a Non-Executive Director sitting on the Board for NHS Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in the UK
Jas has been married for 18 years and has two boys, aged 15 and 12. He loves to read and travel exploring new places in the world and absolutely loves his cricket!
Ramzi El-Haddadeh
Associate Professor Management Information Systems - Qatar University
Ramzi has extensive experience in the Higher Education sector in the UK and Qatar. His expertise lies in developing employability driven courses and programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition, his research knowledge is focused on the context of emerging innovative technologies adoption and evaluation, in addition to public sector services ICT enabled transformation. Dr El-Haddadeh has published numerus articles in international Journals and conferences, and has several years of R&D experience in the field of developing evaluation indicators for ICT implementation projects.
Ejiroghene Noserime
Head, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management at United Bank for Africa
Ejiroghene Noserime is a Human Resources professional, who is career-driven and poised to deliver the best-in-class and aligned strategic human resources management goals within organisations. Ejiroghene has over the years focused on formulation, development and implementation of strategic human capital initiatives that are aligned to business objectives to ensure business growth. He has harnessed his analytical skills and he is highly creative and passionate, and this has enabled him become an innovative people champion. His wealth of experience cuts across strategic talent sourcing, attraction, retention, performance management, integrated talent management/development, HR operations, expatriate management and business partnering. He is guided by the principle of team spirit, good people management skills, leadership by example, sound work ethics. Ejiro is naturally adaptive to his environment.
His over 15 years work experience in the Financial Services sector, Consulting and Telecommunications Industries, has equipped him with skills in strategic HR planning and management, performance management, talent development and management, policy design, project management, HR administration, employee/business capacity building, senior executive relationship management, diversity management and strategic partnerships (internal and external). He has broad people management experience from three Tier-1 Financial Institutions with presence across Afrrica namely, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and FBN Quest Merchant Bank Limited - a subsidiary of FBN Holdings. He expanded his industry experience at a telecommunication company (Zain Nigeria) and a stint in Consulting (PeopleTemp). He has had a track record in designing, developing and implementing strategic HR initiatives, frameworks/models and Organisational Development intervention projects focused on executing strategic HR agendas, performance and career management frameworks and executing successfully delivered HR business partnering initiatiatives through strategic stakeholder alliances. His professional experience and training cuts across the whole employee life cycle ranging from talent sourcing, acquisition, retention development/management, competency modelling/management, personality assessments, talent and career management, HR project management, HR shared services, HR risk management, expatriate management, performance management, organisation and leadeship development.
He is currently the Head, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management at United Bank for Africa, prior to this he was Head of Talent Management and Organisational Development at FBNQuest Merchant Bank Limited a subsidiary of FBN Holdings. He has managed the Career and Performance Management team as Head of the Unit at Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (Nigeria), were he had a rich career experience and had a rapid career progression as his portfolio and span of control expanded within a short period of time.
Ejiro holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English from the prestigious University of Lagos, Nigeria and is a certified HR professional with ACIPM in Nigeria, SPHRi and SHRM-SCP both from USA. Ejiroghene is married to Constance Noserime and they have three (3) lovely children.
Professor Amir Sharif
Dean of Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences, University of Bradford
Amir joined the University in his new role as Associate Dean (International) in August 2017 coming from Brunel University London, where he was Professor of Operations Management and the Founding Director of the Operations and Supply Chain Systems (OASIS) research group within Brunel Business School. He was also an appointed member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London and a past member of Senate. Amir has previously held a number of senior leadership and management roles within Brunel Business School, including as Head of School and also has been Assistant Head, Acting Director of the Doctoral Programme, Director of MBA Programmes, and Director of Teaching and Learning. Prior to his academic career, Amir worked extensively within the Financial Services and Professional Services sector, working for and consulting with many of the world’s leading multinational corporations, including JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank, KPMG Consulting, BAE Systems, Sony, and the BBC. He brings a wealth of experience in terms of both internationalisation of programmes and overseas global partnerships (predominantly across MENA, GCC and South Asia) – and has successfully lead, directed and contributed to key accreditations including AACSB and AMBA. Amir also has experience in gaining programme recognition and accreditations from a number of leading UK chartered bodies and PSRBs for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In parallel with his industry experiences, Amir remained and continues to be research active and continues to be an active member on grant funding bodies. He has been re-elected in successive years to be a member of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, whilst also having provided his expertise to a number of other leading national and international research funding bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission (EU), the British Academy, the British Council, the Czech Research Foundation (CRF), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), the Natural and National Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and the Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF). His key teaching and research interests cross a diverse mix of topics including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management and Leadership Decision-Making and Operations Research. These are across a range of sectors such as manufacturing, FMCG, central and local government, humanitarian logistics, financial services, and more recently, food security / waste, the food-energy-water nexus and the circular economy. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and has been recognised for his academic contributions from publishers and societies alike. Amir’s research was identified in 2014 by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel for Business and Management as of “outstanding international reputation and impact” for research conducted with the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in applying “soft” operations research modelling techniques in order to evaluate the impact of European Union farming subsidies on the UK agribusiness sector and the resulting effect on UK climate change policy. He continues to be active in the popular press and media, contributing and being quoted in articles in newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times (of London), The Independent, WIRED (UK edition), as well as being an ad-hoc columnist for University Business magazine. Amir is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (FCILT), the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM) and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI). Amir joined the University in his new role as Associate Dean (International) in August 2017 coming from Brunel University London, where he was Professor of Operations ManageAmir joined the University in his new role as Associate Dean (International) in August 2017 coming from Brunel University London, where he was Professor of Operations Management and the Founding Director of the Operations and Supply Chain Systems (OASIS) research group within Brunel Business School. He was also an appointed member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London and a past member of Senate. Amir has previously held a number of senior leadership and management roles within Brunel Business School, including as Head of School and also has been Assistant Head, Acting Director of the Doctoral Programme, Director of MBA Programmes, and Director of Teaching and Learning. Prior to his academic career, Amir worked extensively within the Financial Services and Professional Services sector, working for and consulting with many of the world’s leading multinational corporations, including JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank, KPMG Consulting, BAE Systems, Sony, and the BBC. He brings a wealth of experience in terms of both internationalisation of programmes and overseas global partnerships (predominantly across MENA, GCC and South Asia) – and has successfully lead, directed and contributed to key accreditations including AACSB and AMBA. Amir also has experience in gaining programme recognition and accreditations from a number of leading UK chartered bodies and PSRBs for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In parallel with his industry experiences, Amir remained and continues to be research active and continues to be an active member on grant funding bodies. He has been re-elected in successive years to be a member of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, whilst also having provided his expertise to a number of other leading national and international research funding bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission (EU), the British Academy, the British Council, the Czech Research Foundation (CRF), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), the Natural and National Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and the Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF). His key teaching and research interests cross a diverse mix of topics including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management and Leadership Decision-Making and Operations Research. These are across a range of sectors such as manufacturing, FMCG, central and local government, humanitarian logistics, financial services, and more recently, food security / waste, the food-energy-water nexus and the circular economy. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and has been recognised for his academic contributions from publishers and societies alike. Amir’s research was identified in 2014 by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel for Business and Management as of “outstanding international reputation and impact” for research conducted with the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in applying “soft” operations research modelling techniques in order to evaluate the impact of European Union farming subsidies on the UK agribusiness sector and the resulting effect on UK climate change policy. He continues to be active in the popular press and media, contributing and being quoted in articles in newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times (of London), The Independent, WIRED (UK edition), as well as being an ad-hoc columnist for University Business magazine. Amir is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (FCILT), the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM) and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).
Professor Vishanth Weerakkody
Associate Dean International & Enterprise, Professor of Digital Governance
I am currently the Interim Dean for the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Digital Governance at University of Bradford. Prior to this, I held the role of Head of School and Associate Dean (Planning and Resources) for the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences at University of Bradford. Before moving to University of Bradford, I held various senior management roles at Brunel Business School and was a Professor of Digital Governance at Brunel University London.
Given the changing landscape of UK within Europe, I am particularly passionate about research and innovation to tackle the societal challenges prioritised in our National Industry Strategy, including the use of emerging technologies to transform health and social care and using community led innovation to deal with increasing levels of scarcity and poverty.
As a research-active academic, I continue to publish in Chartered Association of Business Schools 3* and 4* journals. My publications have appeared in Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Government Information Quarterly, Information Systems Frontiers, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Production Planning and Control, International Business Review, Computers in Human Behaviour and European Journal of Operational Research. Furthermore, editorial responsibilities in international journals and chairing of tracks dedicated to the field of Digital Government research at International Conferences allow me to contribute to the wider research community.
Professor Sankar Sivarajah
Head of the School of Management and Head of the BACES Research Centre
Sankar Sivarajah joined the School of Management at the University of Bradford in December 2017 and is a Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy. He is currently the Head of School of Management and the Head of Business Analytics, Circular Economy and Supply Chain Research Centre. He was also part of the University’s Research Practice Innovation Group led by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Engagement) to help shape the University’s 2020-25 Research and Innovation (R&I) strategy.
His passion for research and teaching is interdisciplinary in nature focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, be it in a business or government context.
He is currently engaged in research and teaching in the field of circular economy and responsible use of technology by businesses and governments. He is experienced in designing and developing award-winning industry-relevant degree programmes in fields such as Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
He is a Deputy Editor of Journal of Enterprise Information Management and has published over 50 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research has featured in reputable media/trade publications such as BBC Yorkshire, Computer Weekly, The Conversation, Public Sector Focus and London School of Economics academic blog.
To date, he has a successful track of record as Principal and Co-investigator in over £3 million worth of R&I and consultancy projects funded by national, international funding bodies and commercial organisations. Some of the notable funders have been the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Innovate UK/DEFRA and British Council focusing on projects addressing business and societal challenges surrounding themes such as Blockchain use in Financial Services, Smart Waste and Cities, Energy-efficient data centres, Social innovation and Participatory Budgeting (currently being developed as an impact case). Some of the key past and present industry and public sector partners that he has collaborations with are Fraunhofer, Deloitte, Thales, Enel, Telefonica, Vodafone, Leeds Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Cambridgeshire County Council, Hounslow Council, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Arup and PA Consulting to name a few.
He was awarded a PhD in 2014 in Management Information Systems from Brunel University London, which focused on the development of a technology evaluation and impact assessment framework for local government authorities. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Business and Management specialising in Computer Sciences from Brunel University London and MSc with Distinction in Management specialising in Entrepreneurship from The City Business School (previously known as Cass), City University London.
He was also recognised and awarded by The City Business School an honorary membership to the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) society, an international honour society recognizing business excellence. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and Association for Information Systems (AIS). He tweets at @SankarSivarajah.
Dr Jing Li
Associate Dean (Research Knowledge Transfer) University of Bradford
Jing joined University of Bradford, School of Management, as a Lecturer in Accounting in 2008, and became Senior Lecturer in Accounting in March 2012 and then Reader in Accounting in May 2017. Before joining the School of Management as a lecturer, Jing studied for a PhD in accounting at the School. She has an MA in Finance, Accounting and Management and a bachelors degree in Business and Management Studies.
During the 10 years of working at the School, Jing has been entrusted with various academic leadership and administrative roles, including Stage tutor (levels 5 & 6 students), Director of Studies for BSc Accounting & Finance programme for over 4 years, Deputy Head for Accounting, Finance and Economics Division, Impact Champion (from Nov 2017 onwards), and more recently Interim Associate Dean - Research & Knowledge Transfer (from June 2018). Jing serves on various university and faculty committees and is currently the coordinator for UoA C17 Business and Management Studies for REF2021.
Hatice Kizgin
Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), University of Bradford
Hatice is the Associate Dean for Learning & Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Marketing Her research has investigated immigrants’ consumer behaviour and their acculturation trends. Her special research interest is into the non- Western communities with a strong positivist approach to research. She is actively involved in consultancy projects in the Netherlands. Hatice has published articles in leading academic journals including Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Technology and Forecasting, International Marketing Review, International Journal of Information Management, Production Planning and Control, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology and People, Annals of Operations and has presented her research in some of the prominent international conferences of marketing.
She is the Co-editor of the book “Advances in Theory and Practice of Digital Marketing”, Springer Publications. In addition she has co-edited special issues published by Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Consumer Behaviour and is the current co-editor for special issues in International Journal of Information Management. Hatice holds the position of Deputy Chair at Academy of Marketing Special Interest Group: Digital Marketing and Data Analytics https://www.academyofmarketing.org/sigs/digital-marketing-sig/.
She was nominated for Inspiring Woman 2019 award. She strongly values and support the positive impact of equality and diversity to enhance working environments and reputation.
Dr Natalie Wilmot
MBA Director
Natalie joined the University of Bradford as MBA Director in September 2019, following seven years at Sheffield Hallam University.
Her research centres around a long-standing interest in foreign language diversity in international business, and since 2016, she has been a member of the scientific committee and treasurer of GEM&L, a French-based, international scholarly body which investigates the relationship between language and management.
Her teaching interests are in the areas of cross-cultural management, management consulting, and global supply chain management, with a focus on the human-centred processes at the heart of such activities. Since 2017 she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, where she teaches a postgraduate course on intercultural communication.
Prior to joining academia, Natalie held a number of posts in the private sector, specialising in export sales and global supply chain management, and has worked extensively with organisations in southern Europe and Latin America.
Elaine Dean
Business Engagement Manager, University of Bradford
Elaine joined the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences as the Business Engagement Manager in April 2019, having worked in the University in various teams in project management and business development roles; linking university support for businesses and the regional community and creating opportunities for businesses to work with the academic team and students to realise the benefits of work based learning.
As the Business Engagement Manager for the Faculty, Elaine manages the delivery of the business and community engagement strategy; focuses on developing strong links with industry and our alumni, to deliver market leading research and development opportunities which benefit students, graduates and employers of the future. In particular Elaine manages the delivery of the Knowledge Transfer Network, the Career Booster Programme and coordinates the appointment and integration of the Faculty Community Fellows.
Elaine’s previous experience to the university, was in commercial and operational management roles in Burberry plc, looking after the manufacture of the £12m product portfolio for worldwide Burberry fabric sales.
Elaine is an alumnus of the Executive MBA Programme.
Ismat Abu Shihab
Director of Regional Hub, Dubai University of Bradford
Ismat Abu Shihab, IT and Management professional with a strong background in education strategy and higher education performance, first joined The University of Bradford in September 2005. He has a Computer Science degree from Jordan, a Master’s in Information Technology in Electronic Commerce, and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) both degrees from University of Bradford.
In 2015, Ismat moved to become the Director of Regional Hub, Dubai leading strategic students’ recruitment from the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia and South East Asia regions and to support the university wider internationalisation strategy and to further develop the TNE provision in Dubai. Over the past three years, the number of international students joining the University of Bradford has tripled from these regions.
With over 15 year’s international experience in business and higher education, Ismat established international links with professional industries and education Ministries and the University of Bradford has now a close working relationship with a wide range of key stakeholders, sponsors and cultural offices, directly increasing the university profile as well as the number of joint international collaborations. A contributor to educational journals and speaker at conferences on the subject of education in the Middle East and North Africa, Chair of the British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA) Interest Group for the Middle East and North Africa Regions and Chair of the Ministry of Manpower, Oman Consortium of 14 UK Universities.
Hermione Berry
Career Consultant, University of Bradford
Hermione is a professionally qualified and experienced Career Consultant who manages the careers support for our MBA students and graduates. This includes the provision of one to one career coaching, MBA specialist careers resources and webinars. Hermione coordinates and delivers a series of MBA Career Development Webinars, which include Leveraging your MBA, LinkedIn Masterclass, Develop your MBA level CV, Success at MBA Level Job Interviews, How to get a job you love, Salary Negotiation and Networking for Career Success.
She also works as one of the link Career Consultants responsible for careers related teaching and input into accredited modules across the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences.
Outside the University of Bradford Hermione works as a freelance Career Consultant which includes delivering careers related workshops at other Universities and one to one career coaching. Prior to joining the University, she managed the recruitment for a call centre and worked for many years in Human Resources roles, ranging from investment banking to retail as a recruitment specialist. Passionate about the field of personal development Hermione is a HEA Fellow, Chartered Member of the CIPD as well as a British Psychological Society Member (psychometric testing) and she holds Certificates in Coaching and Counselling.
Dr Amizan Omar
Director of Accreditation, University of Bradford
Amizan's research interest and expertise is interdisciplinary focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, especially in the context of public sector. This is due to her 15 years’ experience working on different portfolios in Malaysian public sector, including in Education, Human Resource and Transportation . Her current and evolving research interests include exploring the role of actors and structures in the adoption of digital-led transformation in the context of public service, implication of disruptive technology and circular economy on talent management, the ethics of artificial intelligence in the HRM context, the application of responsible management concepts in government policies and other public sector transformation in general.
Dr David Spicer
Director of Business Engagement
David is Director of Business Engagement in the Faculty of Management Law and Social Sciences and is leading on the development of the School of Management's programme and portfolio in respect of small business and entrepreneurship.In addition David is also programme leader for the School'd HRM degrees. David has over 20 years experience in higher education and returned to Bradford (where he began his academic career) at the start of the 2019/20 academic year, having previously led the Business School at the University of Salford. David is a member of the People, Organisations and Entrepreneurship research cluster, and his research interests include organisational learning, change and leadership and he has undertaken research and consultancy and delivered executive education in both SMEs and with large corporate firms. He currently teaches on both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes within the School of Management.
Full list of our team
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| Chengang | Wang | Professor (IB, M & B) | View profile for Chengang Wang |
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| Vishanth | Weerakkody | Professor & Associate Dean | View profile for Vishanth Weerakkody |
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| Elvira | Ismagilova | Assistant Professor | View profile for Elvira Ismagilova |
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| Ana Cristina | Costa | Professor (P, O & E) | View profile for Ana Cristina Costa |
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| Neil | Anderson | Professor (P, O & E) | View profile for Neil Anderson |
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| Rohitkumar | Trivedi | Senior Lecturer (IB, M & B) | View profile for Rohitkumar Trivedi |
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| Sankar | Sivarajah | Head of the School of Management | View profile for Sankar Sivarajah |
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| Muhammad | Khawar | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | View profile for Muhammad Khawar |
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| Roger | Adkins | Professor (A, F & E) | View profile for Roger Adkins |
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| Zahid | Hussain | Associate Professor | View profile for Zahid Hussain |
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| Stuart | Sanderson | Emeritus Professor | View profile for Stuart Sanderson | |
| Richard | Pike | Emeritus Professor | View profile for Richard Pike | |
| Arthur | Francis | Emeritus Professor | View profile for Arthur Francis | |
| David | Jobber | Emeritus Professor | View profile for David Jobber |
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| Mohamed | Zairi | Emeritus Professor | View profile for Mohamed Zairi | |
| Craig | Johnson | Senior Lecturer (L, SC & T) | View profile for Craig Johnson |
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| Helen | Preece | Senior Lecturer | View profile for Helen Preece |
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| Jean-Marc | Trouille | Jean Monnet Chair - Assoc. Professor | View profile for Jean-Marc Trouille |
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| Mark | Baimbridge | Associate Professor | View profile for Mark Baimbridge |
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| Jiachen | Hou | Assistant Professor | View profile for Jiachen Hou |
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| Steven | Wu | Senior Lecturer (A, F & E) | View profile for Steven Wu |
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| Mohamed | Eldaly | Lecturer (A, F & E) | View profile for Mohamed Eldaly |
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| James | Wallace | Associate Professor | View profile for James Wallace |
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| Shahid | Rasul | Assistant Professor | View profile for Shahid Rasul |
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| Jing | Li | Associate Dean (RKT)/Reader | View profile for Jing Li |
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| Saima | Rifet | Lecturer (P, O & E) | View profile for Saima Rifet |
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| Dariya | Mykhayliv | Assistant Professor | View profile for Dariya Mykhayliv |
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| Mahdi | Mousavi | Lecturer (A, F & E) | View profile for Mahdi Mousavi |
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| Kamran | Mahroof | Assistant Professor | View profile for Kamran Mahroof |
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| Julia | Morgan | Lecturer (P, O & E) | View profile for Julia Morgan |
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| Joseph | Danquah | Lecturer in OB & HRM | View profile for Joseph Danquah |
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| Takao | Maruyama | Assistant Professor | View profile for Takao Maruyama |
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| Irene | Chu | Assistant Professor | View profile for Irene Chu |
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| Donia | Waseem | Assistant Professor | View profile for Donia Waseem |
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| Majid | Aminzare | Senior Lecturer in Accounting | View profile for Majid Aminzare |
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| Saeed | Akbar | Professor (A, F & E) | View profile for Saeed Akbar |
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| Amizan | Omar | Director of Accreditations | View profile for Amizan Omar |
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| Natalie | Wilmot | MBA Director | View profile for Natalie Wilmot |
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| Ebru | Surucu Balci | Lecturer in Logistics and Management | View profile for Ebru Surucu Balci |
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| John | Fry | Associate Professor | View profile for John Fry |
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| Kuttimani | Tamilmani | Assistant Professor | View profile for Kuttimani Tamilmani |
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| David | Spicer | Associate Professor | View profile for David Spicer |
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| Gaynor | Cross | Lecturer in Marketing | View profile for Gaynor Cross |
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| Muhammad | Waqas | Lecturer in Economics | View profile for Muhammad Waqas |
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| Wenzhao | Wang | Assistant Professor | View profile for Wenzhao Wang |
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| Bruce | Hearn | Chair in Accounting and Finance | View profile for Bruce Hearn |
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| Banita | Lal | Associate Professor | View profile for Banita Lal |
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| Joanna | Pritchard | Director of Digital Learning MBA | View profile for Joanna Pritchard |
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| Wendy | Currie | Professor-Management Information Systems | View profile for Wendy Currie | |
| Sang-Bum | Park | Lecturer in Strategic Management | View profile for Sang-Bum Park |
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| Simon | Mair | Lecturer - Circular Economy & Data Analy | View profile for Simon Mair |
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| Oluwaseun | Olabode | Lecturer (IB, M & B) | View profile for Oluwaseun Olabode |
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| Diana | Brady | Work Based Learning Coach | View profile for Diana Brady | |
| Don | Lloyd | Professor-Sustainability&Energy Futures | View profile for Don Lloyd | |
| Chetan | Walia | Associate Professor | View profile for Chetan Walia | |
| Lina | Anaya | Post Doctoral Research Associate | View profile for Lina Anaya |
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| Zubair | Shah | Lecturer in Accounting | View profile for Zubair Shah |
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| Rachel | Sammut | Lecturer | View profile for Rachel Sammut | |
| Irfan | Saleem | Lecturer | View profile for Irfan Saleem |
Honorary Visiting Professors
Paul Waller
Visiting Fellow, University of Bradford
Paul Waller is pursuing research interests in the impact of information technology on politics, democracy, government, public policy design and administration, and public sector innovation. He also undertakes research, advisory, and speaking engagements for international bodies, national public authorities, and companies.
Formerly he was a UK senior civil servant leading policy development and delivery. Paul has acted as a Project Assurance Reviewer for high-risk UK government projects and major government policy initiatives. During his civil service career, he led e-Government work for the UK Presidency of the EU and has presented at numerous top-level EU and international conferences. He is an advisor and consultant to the European Commission and is an expert evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Paul is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Professor Alexander Mohr
Honorary Visiting Professor
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mohr, is Professor of International Business at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He previously held positions at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Bradford, and the University of Kent. He works in the area of international strategic alliances, non-market strategy, and international human resource management. His research has been published in journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of World Business, and Strategy Science.
Professor Marijn Janssen
Honorary Visiting Professor
Prof.dr. Marijn Janssen is a Full Professor in ICT & Governance in the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology and a honorary visiting professor at Bradford Univeristy. His research interests are in the field of design science, orchestration, shared services, blockchain, quantum, algorithms and open and big data and infrastructures. Marijn is a founding board member of Digicampus – a quadruple helix innovation partnership - in which government, business, science, and citizens work together to innovate public services. This is done through collaborative research, agenda-setting, round-table discussions, market consultation, and experimentation. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly (CiteScore of 11.6 in 2020), chair of the IFIP WG8.5 in ICT and public administration, conference chair of IFIP EGOV-CeDEM–ePart series and president-elect of the Digital Government Society (DGS). He was ranked as one of the leading e-government researchers in surveys in 2009, 2014, and 2016. He was nominated in 2018 and 2019 by Apolitical as one of the 100 most influential people in the Digital Government worldwide https://apolitical.co/lists/digital-government-world100. He has published over 500 refereed publications, his google h-score is 70, having over 19K citations. More information: www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj.
Dr Phil Hunter
Honorary Visiting Fellow
Dr Phil Hunter joined the University of Bradford School of Management as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in December 2020. Phil gained his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds. He holds BSc (Hons) in Sociology from the University of Surrey; MA in Philosophy and Social Theory from the University of Warwick; and MSc in Economic Development Policy and Research from the University of Birmingham. His academic interests cover political philosophy and theories of state, the crisis of the state settlement in the UK, and the recurrent failure of economic governance and policy addressed to uneven development in the UK.
Phil has over 17 years experience of working in the public sector in policy research, development and implementation spanning the national, regional and local government and agencies. He has worked for the Office for National Statistics, Devon County Council, the Learning and Skills Council and Bradford Council.