David Faulkner is currently Professor of Strategy and former Director of the MBA programmes at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Open University and Director of Studies in Management at Exeter College, Oxford University.
After schooling at Kings College School, Wimbledon, Professor Faulkner served for five years as an RAF officer (Aircrew), spending most of his time was as a navigator with 32 and 6 squadrons of Canberra bombers at the Middle East air force base in Cyprus.

On leaving the RAF, he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, specialising in economics. On completing his Degree, he served briefly as a Principal Economist in the National Economic Development Office and then spent 13 years as a strategic management consultant with two of the world's leading consultancies in the field; first with McKinsey and Company and then, subsequently with Arthur D Little. During this period of his career, he led a multi-national team that helped reorganise the Government of Tanzania from a centralised unitary state to a Governmental structure with thirteen regions and devolved economic development functions. He also led the team that created Lloyds Bank International from the Bank of London and South America and Lloyds Bank Europe. He subsequently spent two years as Director of Corporate Finance in London and Continental Bankers Limited, working on Mergers and Acquisitions. At Arthur D Little, he led the team advising the Scottish Development Agency on the regeneration of Scotland's engineering industry.

From 1975 to 1981 he created and ran a sporting goods company, which he founded and developed into a £2million turnover business, manufacturing and selling Frisbee discs and golfing equipment.

Professor Faulkner left the corporate sector in 1991 to pursue an academic career and completed his doctorate at Templeton College, Oxford, writing his thesis on the Key Factors for Success in Strategic Alliances. Over the last eighteen years, he has written and edited eleven books and a large number of articles for academic journals. He has taught at Oxford University, Cranfield, Henley Management College, Warwick Business School, The Judge Business School at Cambridge University, and the Open University. In these posts, he has concentrated on directing, managing, and lecturing on, MBA programmes, while pursuing his research interests in cooperative strategies, mergers & acquisitions, and international strategic management.

From 1995 to 2003, Professor Faulkner was an 'Official Student' (a term for Fellow/Professor) in Management at Christ Church College, Oxford, and made a significant contribution to the development of the University's Said Business School as Deputy Director, serving also as Director of Undergraduate and, subsequently, Graduate Programmes in Management at the University. A member of the leading team through the start-up of the Said Business School, Oxford, he served on its Executive Committee as the School grew towards its current very substantial size. He is currently Director of Studies in Management at Exeter College, Oxford.

At Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor Faulkner was responsible for developing the MSc in Sustainability and Management, an increasingly popular international degree. He also created the MSc in International Management and marketed it internationally so successfully that it attracted over 100 students in its first year and many more in its second. As Director of the MBA Programme, he shepherded the School of Management through to accreditation by AMBA (The Association of MBAs).

Marcus Davison MA (Oxford)
Core Faculty Member

Marcus Davison graduated from Oxford in 1971 with first class honours and several university prizes in classics. He worked for thirty years in a wide variety of positions in banking and finance, including a six-year period in Hamburg as global treasurer of a German foreign trade bank. From 1991 he combined this career as a practitioner with a steadily increasing part-time academic workload, initially on the MBA programme of the Open University Business School, before devoting his time exclusively to lecturing, training and writing from 2001 onwards.

He is co-author, with Janette Rutterford, of the third edition of her highly regarded Introduction to Stock Exchange Investment, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.

He has extensive experience as an international trainer and lecturer in an exceptionally wide range of financial subjects, ranging from financial decision making and risk management at the strategic level to more technically focused areas in bonds, equities, derivatives, portfolio and risk management, foreign exchange and money markets. His training activities for major international and regional banks take him to Europe, the Middle East, South and East Asia and the United States.

He is also active as a university lecturer specialising in finance for MBA programmes. In addition to his long-standing association with the UK's Open University Business School MBA programme, he has been a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London since 2003 and at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business since 2005. He has extensive experience not only of lecturing and examining but also of designing and writing courses in both the conventional and the distance-learning environment.

His other professional interests encompass such diverse activities as undertaking research for expert witnesses in major financial disputes and advising a private equity firm on its bid for a chain of UK independent schools.

Maggie Faulkner BA, MA (Oxford)
Director of the MBA in International Law

Maggie Faulkner is Director of the MBA in International Law programme at MCC as well as being College Registrar.

She took her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Modern history at St Hugh's College Oxford University and subsequently did a PGCE in Education, a law conversion CPE and a PGDL at the Inns of Court School of Law. She was called to the Bar in 2000. Maggie has tutored in law at Oxford University.

John Child M.A. Ph.D. Sc.D., FBA
Professor Emeritus of Commerce, University of Birmingham

John Child has an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Management both from the University of Cambridge, which in 1984 also awarded him a Sc.D. for outstanding scholarly work. In 1996 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Helsinki School of Economics, one of the first business schools to be founded in Europe. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Corvinus University, Budapest.
In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management and also of the British Academy of Management. In 2004, John Child received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the International Association for Chinese Management Research.
In 2006, he was made an Honorary Member of the European Group for Organization Studies [EGOS] in recognition of his contribution to the study of organization and to the work of the association. In the same year, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Child's career started with posts in marketing and personnel at Rolls-Royce Ltd. He worked as a Research Fellow at Aston University from 1966 to 1968 and then held a faculty position at the London Business School until 1973. In that year he was appointed Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Aston University.
From 1986 to 1989 he was Dean of the Aston Business School. During 1989-90, he was seconded to the position of Dean and Director of the China-European Community Management Centre in Beijing with which he had been connected since 1985. He took up the Guinness (later Diageo) Chair of Management at Cambridge in 1991. He was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Organization Studies from 1992 to 1996. He also founded the Centre for International Business and Management [CIBAM] at Cambridge.
John's research interests include Management and economic reform in China; organization and performance of strategic alliances; internationalization of SMEs; evolution of new organizational forms.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
2010
Boisot, Max, John Child and Gordon Redding. Working the System: Towards a Theory of Cultural and Institutional Competence. International Studies of Management and Organization, 40 (forthcoming).
2009
Child, John, Said Elbanna and Suzana B. Rodrigues. The Political Aspects of Strategic Decision Making. In David Wilson and Paul Nutt (eds.) The Handbook of Decision Making. Chichester: Wiley (forthcoming).
Child, John. Challenging hierarchy. In Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott and Todd Bridgman (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 501-514.
Child, John. Context, Comparison and Methodology in Chinese Management Research. Management and Organization Review, 5: 57-73.

Child, John. China and International Business. In Alan M. Rugman (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 648-686.

Child, John and Derong Chen. The China-Europe Management Institute: A Pioneer of Management Education in China. In Malcolm Warner and Keith Goodall (eds.) Management Training and Development in China. London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Child, John, Suzana B. Rodrigues and George Frynas. Psychic Distance, its Impact and Coping Modes: Interpretations of SME Decision Makers. Management International Review 49: 199-224.

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Private Equity, the Minimalist Organization and the Quality of Employment Relations. Human Relations (forthcoming).

2008
Boisot, Max, John Child and Gordon Redding. Working the System: Towards a Theory of Cultural and Institutional Competence. International Studies of Management and Organization (forthcoming).

Child, John. The Future of Chinese Management Research: Context and Comparison. Management and Organization Review (forthcoming).

Child, John and Derong Chen. The China-Europe Management Institute: A Pioneer of Management Education in China. In Malcolm Warner and Keith Goodall (eds.) Management Training and Development in China. London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Child, John, Suzana B. Rodrigues and George Frynas. Reviving and Extending the Multi-Dimensional Concept of Psychic Distance: Evidence from Smaller Firms Exporting to Brazil. Management International Review.

Child J. and Suzana B. Rodrigues. The Process of SME Internationalization: British Firms Entering Brazil.Economia e Gestão, 17 (3): 31-55.

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Corporate Co-evolution. Oxford: Blackwell.
Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Corporate Co-evolution. Chichester: Wiley. (Winner of the George F. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management 2009)

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. The development of corporate identity: A political perspective. Journal of Management Studies, 45: 885-911.

2007
Child, John, Yuan Lu and S-H Terence Tsai. Institutional Entrepreneurship in Building an Environmental Protection System for the People's Republic of China. Organization Studies 28(7):1013-1034.

Elbanna, Said and John Child. The Influence of Decision, Environmental and Firm Characteristics on the Rationality of Strategic Decision-Making. Journal of Management Studies, 44 (4): 561-591.

Elbanna, Said and John Child. Influences on Strategic Decision Effectiveness: Development and Test of an Integrative Model. Strategic Management Journal 28: 431-453.

Rodrigues, Suzana B. and John Child. Corporate Co-evolution. Oxford: Blackwell.
Yan, Yanni, John Child and Can Yong Chong. Vertical integration of corporate management in international firms: Implementation of HRM and the asset specificities of firms in China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(5): 788-807

2006
Boisot, Max and John Child. China and the New Economy: A Case of Convergence? In Angelo Corallo, Giuseppina Passiante and Andrea Prencipe (eds.), The Digital Business Ecosystem. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Dr. George Bowen M.A., D.Phil(Oxon).
George Bowen was a senior international manager in a global multinational company, principally in North and South America and is a Sloan Fellow of London Business School.He returned to Oxford University to complete a doctorate on 'Government and the Competitive Advantage of Multinational Enterprises'.George is Lecturer in Management Studies at The Queen's College, Oxford University and teaches at the Saïd Business School, for several Oxford University colleges and for various other educational institutions.For the last twelve years he has also been a director of a company specialising in Antarctic and Arctic travel.His major areas of research interest are strategic management, international business, government and competitive advantage, development economics, entrepreneurship, North and South America, Antarctica, and the textile and tourist industries.

Prerna Tambay
Currently working towards PhD in Management from
Birkbeck, University of London.She completed MBA and
MRes from London University specialising in Management and
Organisation Analysis.
She had more than 9 years of experience in the field of
academia and services industry.

David Michael John Graves. MA