The School Executive performs a number of activities and comprises academic and professional services staff.

The School Executive's main tasks are:

  • To create strategy and policy to guide the School
  • Represent and engage academic groups and professional functions in the running of the School
  • Ensuring it operates effectively and efficiently
  • Ensuring appropriate and sustainable resourcing
  • Integrating, coordinating and monitoring activities to ensure progression

School Executive members

The School Executive meets once a fortnight during the academic year to discuss a wide range of academic and other School issues.

  • Ben Sila
    Personal Chair of Finance and Director of PGT Programmes
  • Ewelina Lacka
    Reader in Digital Marketing & Analytics and Head of Marketing Group
  • Freya Brooks-Todd
    Reporting and Projects Manager
  • Gavin Jack
    Dean of the Business School and Chair in Management & Organisation Studies
  • Jo Danbolt
    Baillie Gifford Chair in Financial Markets and Deputy Dean and Director of Faculty
  • Leonidas Barbopoulos
    Professor of Finance and Head of Group Accounting & Finance
  • Lizzie Robertson
    Executive Assistant to the Dean
  • Michelle O'Toole
    Personal Chair of Management and Organisation Studies and Head of Organisation Studies Group
  • Piera Morlacchi
    Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Head of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group
  • Seth Armitage
    Professor of Finance and Director of UG Programmes
  • Stephen Osborne
    Chair of International Public Management and Head of Strategy Group
  • Susan Dunnett
    Personal Chair of Consumer Culture and Society and Director of Education
  • Thomas Archibald
    Professor of Business Modelling and Director of Research
  • Will Chicken
    Director of Professional Services
  • Yizhe Dong
    Personal Chair in Banking and Business Economics and Head of MSBE Group

In addition, two Student Council members (one from Undergraduate level and one from Postgraduate level) are full members of the Executive.