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.

  • Otto C Frommelt
    MBA (Warwick), DBA (Nottingham) Managing Director, Volvo Austria GmbH, and General Manager, Volvo Truck Center Austria, and Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Vienna

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Corporate governance.