Our People

Richard Nyuur, PhD, is Professor of International Business and Head of International Business, Marketing and Strategy Department at the University of Bradford School of Management. Prior to joining the University of Bradford in 2022, he was an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at Newcastle Business School (Northumbria University, UK), and held a number of leadership roles including the Head and Deputy Head of the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Department, and the Faculty Director of Study Abroad and International Student Wellbeing, among others, all within the Faculty of Business and Law. His research broadly engages with international business and strategy focusing specifically on foreign direct investment (FDI); SME internationalisation, international innovation and strategic adaptiveness; international human resource management, and corporate social responsibility. His publications have appeared in top-tier journals such as, British Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of HRM, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Multinational Business Review, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, Human Resource Development International, and International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. He has successfully co-guest edited special issues for Critical Perspectives of International Business journal, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Journal. Richard currently serves on the editorial boards of Critical Perspectives of international Business, Journal of African Business, and European Journal of Economics and Management. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Trade and Innovation (Offenburg University, Germany).

Professor Tillal Eldabi joins the University of Bradford from the University of Surrey as a Professor of Business Analytics and Digital Innovation. He holds PhD and MSc in Simulation Modelling and BSc in Econometrics and Social Statistics. He has published over 100 articles in highly accredited journals and conferences and successfully supervising and graduating 18 doctoral students. Over a period of 20 years, his main research area was focussing on the use of Simulation Modelling to solve healthcare problems. He developed tailormade modelling packages to support health economists and clinicians to decide on the best treatment programmes. Other works include modelling approaches to enable stakeholders’ engagement and modelling A&E departments. More recently his works focused on developing frameworks for Hybrid Simulation for modelling complex systems with special emphasis on healthcare systems.

Professor Eldabi has led and co-investigated several research projects worth more than a £2 million where he gained funding from national and international research councils such as EPSRC (UK), Qatar National Foundations, British Council, and UNDP – all related to modelling healthcare and Higher Education enhancement. He is the cofounder of the Simulation Workshop UK and the Hybrid Simulation Track at WSC.

Professor Eldabi led the development and management of the PhD without Residence Programme at Ahlia University – Bahrain. This programme is an innovative venture in internationalisation and overseas partnerships, receiving commendations from QAA and AACSB addition. It graduated more than 60 doctoral students, where 45% of them are female, the highest rate of gender parity the Gulf region as evidence of capacity building in diversity and inclusivity. Professor Eldabi also developed two innovative programmes: MBA in healthcare and BSc in Business Analytics.

Professor Eldabi is very excited to join the University of Bradford and he is cherishing the opportunity to contribute to expanding the University’s values in research, pedagogy, and internationalisation. He is looking to a very fruitful tenure at the university.

Fernando Oliveira will join the school as a Professor of Business Analytics and Sustainability and Head of Business Analytics, Circular Economy and Entrepreneurship Department at the University of Bradford School of Management. He holds a PhD in Management Science and Operations from the London Business School, a MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a Licenciatura in Economics from the University of Porto, Portugal. Prior to joining the University of Bradford, he was Associate Professor in Operations Management and Analytics at the Auckland Business School and Professor at ESSEC business school. He has held several visiting positions, including visiting Professor of Operations Management and Analytics at National University of Singapore and visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins. 

He has received two prizes for his publications, the Prix Académique SYNTEC, the European Journal of Operational Research best paper award. His research has been published in top international journals, including Decision Sciences, Energy Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Informs Journal on Computing, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega, and Operations Research. He is in the editorial board of the International Journal of Data Science, area editor of the International Journal of Business Analytics, and associate editor of Energy Systems.

His teaching and research interests are in applications of artificial intelligence to managerial problems in supply chain management, are more specifically, healthcare, energy markets, and quantitative risk management.

Professor Eva Kipnis joins the University of Bradford from the University of Sheffield as a Professor of Marketing. She holds a PhD in Marketing, for which she received a Best Thesis Award, and a MSc in International Marketing. Her research expertise interests culture-informed consumer behaviour and cultural meanings conveyed by brands, Diversity and Inclusion Engaged Marketing in multicultural marketplaces, Transformative Consumer Research and the development and deployment of socially-inclusive technologies in product and service innovations. Eva’s work regularly features in recognized journals, such as the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Marketing Theory, Consumption, Markets & Culture, Journal of Macromarketing, edited collections and books and international conferences. She successfully supervised five doctoral students to graduation, with further seven progressing final stages of their dissertations. She currently serves on the advisory committee for the Transformative Consumer Research movement and will co-chair the 2023 Transformative Consumer Research conference.

Professor Kipnis led the development of several teaching and training programmes, including international schools for doctoral and early career researchers and innovative modules and sessions for undergraduate and Masters students, such as Global Branding and Marketing and Marketing and Social Inclusion

Professor Kipnis brings her previous experience of a marketing practitioner where she worked with international brands across multiple industries to her philosophy of engaging non-academic stakeholders for developing research and education innovations. The impact of her work on the social impacts of marketing activity, particularly in the area of multicultural inclusion and marketplace wellbeing, is recognised by the 2021 Women in Marketing Award in Marketing Scientist category which she received with an international team of collaborators forming a Multicultural Marketplaces research network she co-founded. She continues to co-chair the network, with the most recent project including Diversity and Inclusion Engaged Marketing initiative – a collaborative platform bringing together researchers, industry and policy practitioners and educators working to advance Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in marketing discipline and actions. The initiative is supported by multiple funders including the Association for Consumer Research (USA), the University of Leicester ESRC Impact Accelerator, and IESEG School of Management (France).  Across her academic career, Professor Kipnis secured and co-investigated research projects with a total value of over £2.2 million.

Professor Kipnis is looking forward to contribute her work to the University of Bradford’s priorities of sustainability, equality and diversity and social inclusion.  She is excited about promoting these priorities across research, pedagogy and international collaborations at the University. 

Professor Kerry Papps has joined the University of Bradford from the University of Bath as a Professor of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Kerry undertook his undergraduate education in New Zealand and worked for the Department of Labour in that country before leaving to start his PhD. From 2007-2010 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and in 2011 was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University. Kerry is a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn and is a member of the advisory board of the Erasmus Centre for Applied Sports Economics in Rotterdam.

Kerry’s expertise is in the field of labour economics and especially in the study of the effects of the minimum wage. His research has examined whether the minimum wage affects non-wage benefits, job turnover, on-the-job training, and crime levels. Beyond the minimum wage, Kerry has done research on how well immigrants adjust to their destination country and has used sports data to examine questions about how to effectively organise teams. Kerry has published articles in major economics journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

During 11 years at Bath, Kerry held several key leadership roles. He led the Master of Research programme across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, which provides a year of training for new ESRC-funded PhD students and other students targeting a career in social science research. He was also Bath’s highest academic representative on the South West Doctoral Training Partnership and played a major role in the recent recommissioning process that the ESRC has required of all doctoral training partnerships. In addition, Kerry was director of impact in economics at Bath and coordinated the case studies submitted by the University under the Economics and Econometrics Unit of Assessment for REF 2021. He has supervised three PhD students to completion at Bath and continues to supervise students at Bath and at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

Kerry maintains strong links with policy makers. He regularly contributes to the work of the UK Low Pay Commission as a discussant and invited expert and he has been commissioned to write three research reports for them, which have been published alongside their annual reports and have influenced their recommendations to the UK Government regarding which level to set the National Minimum Wage. This work formed the basis of an impact case study for REF 2021. Kerry has also been invited to share his expertise with the Department for Education and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and with policymakers in New Zealand, where he spent a sabbatical in 2017-2018.

Kerry is eager to build the profile of economics within the School of Management, in terms of research and teaching provision, and he is looking forward to helping support junior colleagues.

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.

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.

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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.

Fernando Oliveira will join the school as a Professor of Business Analytics and Sustainability and Head of Business Analytics, Circular Economy and Entrepreneurship Department at the University of Bradford School of Management. He holds a PhD in Management Science and Operations from the London Business School, a MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a Licenciatura in Economics from the University of Porto, Portugal. Prior to joining the University of Bradford, he was Associate Professor in Operations Management and Analytics at the Auckland Business School and Professor at ESSEC business school. He has held several visiting positions, including visiting Professor of Operations Management and Analytics at National University of Singapore and visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins. 

He has received two prizes for his publications, the Prix Académique SYNTEC, the European Journal of Operational Research best paper award. His research has been published in top international journals, including Decision Sciences, Energy Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Informs Journal on Computing, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega, and Operations Research. He is in the editorial board of the International Journal of Data Science, area editor of the International Journal of Business Analytics, and associate editor of Energy Systems.

His teaching and research interests are in applications of artificial intelligence to managerial problems in supply chain management, are more specifically, healthcare, energy markets, and quantitative risk management.

Richard Nyuur, PhD, is Professor of International Business and Head of International Business, Marketing and Strategy Department at the University of Bradford School of Management. Prior to joining the University of Bradford in 2022, he was an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at Newcastle Business School (Northumbria University, UK), and held a number of leadership roles including the Head and Deputy Head of the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Department, and the Faculty Director of Study Abroad and International Student Wellbeing, among others, all within the Faculty of Business and Law. His research broadly engages with international business and strategy focusing specifically on foreign direct investment (FDI); SME internationalisation, international innovation and strategic adaptiveness; international human resource management, and corporate social responsibility. His publications have appeared in top-tier journals such as, British Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of HRM, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Multinational Business Review, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, Human Resource Development International, and International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. He has successfully co-guest edited special issues for Critical Perspectives of International Business journal, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Journal. Richard currently serves on the editorial boards of Critical Perspectives of international Business, Journal of African Business, and European Journal of Economics and Management. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Trade and Innovation (Offenburg University, Germany).

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.

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.

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 being appointed as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in 2019. 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.

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 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. 

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.

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 President of HSSE & Asset Integrity at BG Group. He held HSSE roles in major companies such as Shell and Total. He served as Head of HSE at Genel Energy plc. Mr. Lloyd has been a Non Executive Director of LondonWaste Limited since 2016. He serves as a Non-Executive Director of RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents), an Independent Board Safety Advisor at NATS (UK Air Traffic Control Services), a Visiting Professor in Risk Management & Corporate Responsibility at Brunel University and Chair of the External Advisory Board at Brunel Business School. He is a chartered chemical engineer with an MSc and PhD (Risk Management) from Manchester University and an MSt (Sustainability Leadership) from Cambridge 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.

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 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.

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).

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 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 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.

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 40^th 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.

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).

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.

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 Dean of School of Management.  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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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).

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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. 

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 Dean of School of Management.  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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Beverley 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. Beverley coordinates and delivers a series of MBA Career Development Webinars. 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, Beverley works as a freelance Career Guidance professional includes one to one career coaching and assessing schools and college for the Quality in Careers Standard. Prior to joining the University, she worked at the University of York as a Career Consultant. Previously she has led region-wide projects such as the Better Choices Campaign for the Leeds City Region LEP, to help people understand labour market information.

Contact details

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyjthomas/

Email: b.thomas2@bradford.ac.uk

Tel: +441274235502

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.