Honorary Professors

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

  • Philip Ashdown
    MBA (Warwick), ACIB, FSA Director, Altima Partners LLP

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

  • Keith Bedell-Pearce
    LLB (Exeter), MSc (Warwick), Solicitor Chairman, Norwich & Peterborough Building Society, and Chairman, The Student Loans Company

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

  • 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.

  • Robert H Fryer CBE
    BA (Canterbury), MA (Cambridge), Diploma Social & Administrative Studies (Oxford), Hon DLitt (Staffs) Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor designate, NHS University

    Continuing education and lifelong learning.

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

    Brand identity, strategy and identity, marketing and corporate identity.

  • Sir Alan Langlands
    BSc (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow), FRCP Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee, and former Chief Executive, NHS Executive, Department of Health.

    Entrepreneurship, commercialisation of research bases in biotechnology and creative industries.

  • John Leighfield
    MA (Oxford), FBCS, FIDPM, FIOM Chairman, Research Machines, and current Pro-Chancellor of the University of Warwick and Chair of University Council.

    Information systems, use of IT in education.

  • Richard Lilford
    MB, MRCOG, MRCP, PhD, MFPHM Director of Research & Development, NHS Executive, West Midlands Regional Office

    Health services and health services research.

  • 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.

  • Jacques Pézier
    Grad Eng (Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures), PhD (Dartmouth, USA), DEA (Institute Henri Poincaré) Professor, Doctoral School of Finance & Banking, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest

    Finance, financial options.

  • 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.

  • Robert G Tompkins
    BA, MA, MBA (Chicago), PhD (Warwick) Managing Director, Minerva Consulting Ltd

    Finance and financial options.

  • Peter Waine
    BSc (Bradford) Co-founder of Hanson Green

    Corporate governance.