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The School is managed by an Executive Team, ably supported by the Heads of Groups and the Programme Directors. The School also has an external Advisory Board.
The Advisory Board
The Advisory Board has a remit to:
- Advise on the overall strategy and direction of the School, particularly in terms of issues such as corporately-orientated research, corporate engagement in general and executive education in particular; external image, identity and positioning of the School; and other questions of strategy and direction that may arise
- Help establish and develop the School’s position within networks of practice, locally, nationally and internationally
- Advise on fund raising activities, including identifying opportunities especially those most relevant to the focus areas of the School
- Act as a sounding board for new ideas and developments in the School
- Assist the Executive Team to build and deliver cases for institutional change where these are required
- Provide appropriate and constructive challenges to the assumptions and operating routines of the School and the University
Read the full Advisory Board Terms of Reference
Members include:
- John Campbell, Chair
Senior Managing Director, State Street Investment Manager Services Europe - Melanie A Czarra
Managing Director, Head of Primary Debt Markets, Mizuho International plc - Olive Darragh (visiting professor)
Founder/CEO Darragh, Inc - Sir John Elvidge
Former Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government - Stephen Halliday
CEO Wood Mackenzie - David Milne
Non-executive Director, Wolfson Microelectronics plc - Christopher Montgomery (visiting professor)
CEO, The Seamont Group, and Global VP NAMEX & Consumer Digital with EMI Music North America - Ronald O’Hanley (visiting professor)
President, Asset Management and Corporate Services Fidelity Investments - Jack Perry CBE
Non-executive director of Robert Wiseman; consultant to McCulloch Unique Hotels;
advisory committee member of Barclays’ Wealth UK.
Former CEO Scottish Enterprise. - Isobel Sharp CBE (visiting professor)
Partner, Deloitte LLP - Otto Thoresen
Director General, The Association of British Insurers - John Waddell
Chief Executive of Archangel Informal Investment - Judy Wagner
Director, FWB Ltd
School's Executive Team
The School’s Executive Team is the main management group in the School. The team usually meets every two weeks and comprises:
- Head of School - Nick Oliver
- Director of PG Programmes - David Marshall
- Director of UG Programmes - Sarah Cooper
- Director of Research - Volker Mahnke
- Director of Corporate Development - Simon Earp
- Director of Faculty - Pauline Weetman
- School Administrator - Ann Hunter
- Secretary to the Executive Team - Elizabeth Andrews
The School is organised into a matrix structure, comprising disciplinary groupings, teaching programmes and research clusters.
There are six discipline-based groups, each one having its own Head of Group:
- Accounting and Finance - Head of Group: Seth Armitage
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Head of Group: Peter Rosa
- Management Science and Business Economics - Head of Group: Tom Archibald
- Marketing - Head of Group: Jake Ansell
- Organisation Studies - Head of Group: Jim Hine
- Strategy and International Business - Head of Group: Brad Mackay
Heads of Groups provide academic leadership and organise teaching. They meet every month in the Heads of Groups Forum which is chaired by the Head of School, who is the main conduit between the Forum and the Executive Team. The Heads of Groups Forum discusses a wide range of academic and other School issues.
For teaching, the School operates a system of programme management. Each programme has its own Director, supported by a mix of shared and dedicated administrative support. Programme Directors and Programme Administrators meet on a monthly basis in the Programme Directors' Forum, chaired by the Director of Programmes, Tony Kinder. He also oversees the School’s portfolio of degree programmes and is the main conduit between the Forum and the Executive Team.
Directors of Programmes
The current Directors of Programmes are:
- Undergraduate programmes in Business and Accounting - Sarah Cooper
- MBA (Full-time, International and Modular) - Tony Kinder
- MBA (Part-time) - Simon Earp
- MSc in Accounting and Finance - Tom Brown
- MSc in Management - Gavin Kretzschmar
- MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets - Ling Liu
- MSc in Finance and Investment - Jens Hagendorff
- MSc in Carbon Management - Dave Reay
- MSc in Carbon Finance - Francisco Ascui
- MSc in Marketing - Iain Black
- MSc in Marketing and Business Analysis - Tom Archibald
- MSc in Financial Management - Tom Brown (acting)
- MSc in Banking and Risk - Jonathan Crook
- MSc in Human Resource Management - Brian Main
- PhD and MSc by Research programmes - Neil Pollock
Research activities are grouped around a combination of cognate research clusters and structured research centres.
Updated January 2012.