Honorary Professors

WBS is proud to benefit from the academic and industry expertise of the following honorary professors.

  • Philip Ashdown
    MBA (Warwick), ACIB, FSA Partner, Silvermine Partners LLP

    Banking and private equity, strategic development, deal structures, financial leverage and key strategic drivers

  • Antreas Athanassopoulos
    BSc (Patras), MSc (Essex), PhD (Warwick) General Manager, Retail Banking, National Bank of Greece

    Business modelling and development, segmentation, risk management models, statistical models and optimisation

  • Craig Baker
    BSc (Warwick), PhD (Warwick) Partner and Managing Director, Public Sector Practice (London), Boston Consulting Group

    Strategy and development in the field of public policy

  • Keith Bedell-Pearce CBE
    LLB (Exeter), MSc (Warwick), Solicitor Chairman, 4D Data Centres Ltd, and Senior Independent Director of F&C Asset Management plc

    IT developments, the future and strategic implications of development in e-commerce

  • Bernard Crump
    MB ChB (Birmingham), DSc Hon (Lincoln), MRCP, FRCP, MFPHM, FFPHM Former CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

    NHS policy and management, the interface of clinical and organisational sciences

  • James W Bryant
    BSc (Durham), BA (Open), MA, PhD (Lancaster), MBCS, CEng Professor of Operational Research & Strategy Sciences at Sheffield Business School/School of Business & Finance, Sheffield Hallam University

    Operational research, management science, game theory and drama theory

  • Anthony Carey
    BSc (Brunel), MBA (Warwick), Fellow ICAEW Partner, Mazars LLP, in charge of corporate governance and international financial reporting standards

    Corporate governance, corporate performance, international accounting standards

  • Clive Fletcher
    BA (University College, Cardiff), PhD (University of Wales Medical School), FBPsS Emeritus Professor, University of London (Goldsmiths College)

    Behavioural assessment, performance appraisal, leadership

  • Otto C Frommelt
    MBA (Warwick), DBA (Nottingham) Senior Advisor, Operational Development, Volvo Trucks HQ, Gothenberg

    Strategy under uncertainty, foresight, strategic leadership, low carbon society and alternative energy in the automotive industry

  • Mike Geddes
    BA (Southampton), DPhil (Sussex) Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick

    Local governance, sustainability

  • Jan Hall OBE
    MA (Oxford) Partner, JCA Group, and formerly European Chief Executive of Gold Greenlees Trott PLC

    Strategy and identity, marketing and corporate identity, executive coaching

  • Sir Alan Langlands
    BSc (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow), FRCP Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England

    Entrepreneurship, commercialisation of research bases in biotechnology and creative industries

  • John Leighfield CBE
    MA (Oxford), FBCS, FIDPM, FIOM Former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Warwick and former Chair of University Council

    Information systems, use of IT in education

  • Malcolm McDonald
    MA (Oxford), MSc (Bradford), PhD (Cranfield), DLitt (Bradford), FRSA, FCIM Emeritus Professor, Cranfield School of Management

    Role of marketing, marketing planning

  • Kevin Morley
    MSc (Surrey), MBA (Aston) Chairman of 5 private companies, and a non-executive director of two PLCs

    Management of change, company turnaround, globalization, customer satisfaction, communication, creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship

  • Gillian Morris
    LLB (Bristol) PhD (Cambridge) Barrister, Matrix Chambers

    Employment law, employment relations in public services, human rights

  • Sir Alec Reed CBE
    Founder and Chairman of Reed Executive PLC

    Innovation, entrepreneurship

  • Göran Roos
    MSc (Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden), MBA (INSEAD), Advanced Diploma in Management (Henley) Founder and Manager, Intellectual Capital Services

    Intellectual capital, information management, strategy and innovative management

  • David Taylor
    BA (Strathclyde) Author and keynote speaker

    Leadership, organisational change, change leadership

  • Jeffery Tolman
    BSc (Wales) Operating Partner, Duke Street

    Strategy, corporate positioning and marketing, development of holistically robust business models to build sustainable competitive advantage

  • Alyson Warhurst
    BSc (Bristol), MSc, DPhil (Sussex) Chief Executive Officer and Founding Director, Maplecroft - global risk advisory firm

    Global risks, ethical supply chains, human rights, corporate reputation, CSR