From 24 – 28 June 2024, the School of Management is hosting the European Academy of Management conference. We’re delighted to welcome a host of fantastic keynote speakers at the event – find out more about them in the post below.
Professor Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School
Nicolai is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School; Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Southern Denmark University; External Chair of the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies; and a Professor II at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
Trained as an economist at Copenhagen University (MSc, 1989), he received his PhD from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, before he moved to Bocconi University in September 2016.
From 2016-2019 he was the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He has held part-time and visiting professorships at the Warwick Business School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Norwegian School of Economics, Lund University, Luiss Guido Carli-Roma, ERC Rennes, and Agder University.
Nicolai founded the Center of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School in 2005, and served as its Director until April 2015.
Encompassing 264 journal articles, 109 book chapters and 26 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in leading journals.
Leanne Allen, KPMG
Leanne is a Partner in KPMG’s Financial Services Tech Consulting Practice and leads KPMG’s data capability. She is an experienced data architect with broad experience across data management, data and systems architecture, data visualisation, reporting and analytics and data migration.
She is a thought leader in Tech-Data including driving the data lens for KPMG’s 30 Voices campaign and co-authoring a paper with UK Finance on the Ethical use of customer data in a digital economy.
Leanne is passionate about driving a diverse culture in technology and in particular, supports working mothers in tech founding the Superwoman network at KPMG with over 100 women in the network.
Her areas of expertise include financial services; banking, insurance, asset and wealth management; data strategy, data management, data governance and data architecture; finance transformation; regulatory transformation; and data ethics.
She holds a PhD in Numerical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University Of Surrey, Guildford.
Professor Rachid Hourizi, Institute of Coding (University of Bath)
As Director of the Institute of Coding (IoC), Rachid leads a national Institute announced by the Prime Minister in January 2018.
He has broad experience leading the teaching of coding, digital skills and entrepreneurship within the University of Bath, Department of Computer Science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He also led efforts to have the Bath placement scheme professionally certified (the first such certification in the country) and to launch digital Degree apprenticeship provision at the University.
Professor Peter McKiernan, University of Strathclyde
Peter joined Strathclyde Business School as a Professor of Management in the Department of Strategy and Organisation in 2011. He has held full-time Professorial positions at the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, and the Sir Walter Murdoch Chair in Management and Governance at Murdoch University, Australia.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, a Masters’s degree in Business Analysis, and a Doctorate in Corporate Strategy.
His main research focus is on how organisations learn about how their future might unfold and how they might prepare their current strategies to cope. Over the years, his research output has covered organisational turnaround, fast-growing SMEs, sector studies and public policy.
This research has appeared in top journals in the US and in Europe and has won several journal and conference prizes.
Peter has worked with a range of blue-chip organisations around the world in strategy and marketing, including IBM, BP, Philips, Reed-Elsevier, and Marks & Spencer. Additionally, he has held many Board positions in the private and public sectors, and chaired those of major public bodies e.g., West Lothian FE College. He has directed a host of scenario planning projects for governments, cities, regions, and organisations on four continents in the private, public and third sectors.
In 2016, the British Academy of Management (BAM) honoured him with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and in 2022, he was honoured with the highest award from BAM – the ‘Cooper Medal’ for outstanding contribution and leadership.
Professor Andrew Crane, University of Bath School of Management
Andrew is a Professor of Business and Society and the director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) at the University of Bath School of Management. He is a multi-award-winning author and teacher, as well as being a popular speaker and media commentator.
For the past 25 years, he has been examining the changing roles and responsibilities of the corporation in the global economy. He specialises in issues of corporate social responsibility and business ethics, with a particular focus on modern slavery, the political role of business, cross-sector partnerships, and CSR communication.
With over 100 publications, including books, articles, chapters, and reports, Andrew is one of the most widely-cited researchers in responsible business. His goal is to use the power of academic research to drive positive change in the world.
In addition to his academic roles, Andrew is a member of the Modern Slavery Engagement Forum at the Home Office for the UK Government, a founding member of the Data Strategy Board for TISCreport, and since 2017 part of the Development Committee of the Slavery and Trafficking Risk Template (STRT), a free, open-source industry standard template for companies to manage their supply chain risks.
Professor Katy Mason, Lancaster University
Katy is currently President of the British Academy of Management. Her expertise lies in the making and shaping of moral markets. Making moral markets is a particular form of open and collaborative innovation, that aims to co-design markets for the good of people and the planet; infrastructuring an ‘everyone economy’ that (re)uses materials in ways that best protect our planetary boundaries.
Studying the management practices that mobilise the collective and co-ordinated actions that constitute moral markets, Katy has worked with organisations such as Rolls-Royce, Microsoft, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, the Cabinet Office, North Yorkshire County Council, Quickline and Cybermoor.
Her research is generating insights into how market actors can effectively work across organisational boundaries, crossing social worlds to collaboratively co-design real-world solutions, making accessible, (re)usable, and valuable innovative goods and services. These cross-boundary connections are helping firms learn how to build a circular economy, one market connection at a time, and are transforming the way markets work for our society and the planet.
Before entering academia, Katy worked as Marketing Executive for a number of blue-chip companies. Her work has been published in leading journals.
Professor Alessandro Zattoni, LUISS University
Alessandro is President of EURAM. He has been the Head of the Department of Business and Management of LUISS University in Rome (2017-2024), Associate Dean for executive education and life-long learning (2015-17) and a member of the Steering Committee of LUISS Business School (2015-17).
Before joining LUISS, he held faculty positions at Bocconi University of Milan and Parthenope University of Naples.
His major research interest is corporate governance, with a focus on board of directors, governance codes, and sustainability. He has published more than 150 works including books, book chapters, leading journal articles and teaching cases.
He is currently an Advisory Board Member of CGIR, an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Management Studies and a Consulting Editor of Journal of World Business.
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