Prof. Andrew Lock

Keynote Speakers in parallel Session:

Prof. Andrew Lock
Dean, Business School, University of Leeds

Professor Andrew Lock is Dean Emeritus at the Business School at the University of Leeds, having stepped down from the Deanship in August 2008. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. from London Business School. He graduated from Leeds in French returning in 2000 after 30 years as Dean of the Business School, having been previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Faculty at Manchester Metropolitan University.. He is a past Chair of the Association of Business Schools which represents business schools in the UK. He is an auditor both for the EQUIS European business school accreditation and AMBA¡¯s MBA accreditation schemes and organises the Public Chairs Forum in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Institute of Direct Marketing, and the Royal Society of Arts, a chartered member of the British Computer Society and a Freeman of the City of London. His work has been published, inter alia, in the Journal of Marketing Management, the European Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Advertising Research,and Management Learning. Under his leadership, Leeds entered the top 50 in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings for the first time In 2008.