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.

Professor Ray Loveridge MA, DLitt (Cambridge)
Core Faculty Member

Professor Loveridge has been a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Said Business School, the University of Oxford since 1998, a member of the University Congregation and permanent member of the SCR of Brasenose College. He was Director of the MSc (Management Research) Programme at the School between 2003 and 2006. He is Professor Emeritus at Aston University and, currently, is Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia and at the British University in Cairo. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School, Ruskin College, Oxford, Churchill College, Cambridge and the London School of Economics. He holds a Cambridge MA and a London MSc.

In 2003 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge. He was formerly a design engineer at Gloster Aircraft Ltd. Academically, he has held tenured positions at the London School of Economics, at London Business School and at Aston University where he was Head of the Strategic Management Division. He has taught as visiting professor at Fudan University, Shanghai; Helwan University, Egypt; McMasters University Ontario; INSEAD and ESSEC, Paris and at the University of Mannheim. He has, singly or jointly, been awarded a number of national and international research grants including an ESRC Programme Grant, an EC programme grant and a joint award from the ASEAN-EU Management Centre Brunei. Over 2007 he has acted as in situ consultant to the UNDP programme of university curriculum development in Middle Eastern countries. He was chief editor of the journal Human Relations from 1989 to 2000, and is currently editorial advisor of Asian Business and Management. He is a Trustee and Council Member of the Tavistock Institute, London. He is married with three daughters from a previous marriage.

Book publications include ‘Information Technology in European Services' with John Child (1990), ‘The Strategic Management of Technological Innovation' with M.Pitt (1990). Book chapters include ‘Human Resource Management in the Multinational Enterprise' with M.Casson and S.Singh in Internationalisation: Process, Context and Markets, G.Hooley, R.Loveridge and D.Wilson (eds) 1998, ‘Institutional Perspectives on Business Strategy' in D.Faulkner and A. Campbell (eds) The Oxford Handbook on Strategy (2003, 2006),'Embedding Multinationals' in J.Dunning and Tsai-Mei Lin (eds) Multinational Enterprises and Emerging Challenges of the 21st Century, Chentenham UK: Edward Elgar (2007). Recent articles include ‘The Globalization of the Telecommunications Sector: the dynamics of firms, governments and technologies', Competition and Change, 1999; ‘Embedding the Multinational Enterprise: bridging internal and external networks in transitional institutional contexts' Asian Business and Management,4, 2005; ‘Developing Institutions-‘Crony Capitalism' and National Capabilities: a European Perspective, Asian Business and Management, 5, 2006.

Professor John Samuels B Com, FCCA
Core Faculty Member

After leaving school John Samuels was employed in the Gas Industry where he trained and qualified as an Accountant. He then studied at the University of Birmingham where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Commerce. He later became Professor of Business Finance at that University, and is now an Emeritus Professor. He has at different times been Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science and was twice Head of the Business School at the University of Birmingham.

Whilst being involved in the senior management of the University he was responsible for the establishment and promotion of a number of new academic programmes. Two of the more unusual ones were a programme for the Iranian Ministry of Finance and a joint degree programme with the Thai Chamber of Commerce University.

As well as taking on a leadership role at his University he became a distinguished academic. This was recognised in 2005 when the British Accounting Association awarded Professor Samuels a Life Time Achievement Award.

He has published over 70 articles in academic journals and written eight books, including Management of Company Finance (with F.M.Wilkes and R. Brayshaw) which (through its six editions) was for over 20 years the main British textbook on finance for those studying accounting. His most recent book, to be published early in 2008, is on a different topic, namely ‘The Globalisation of Football – The Beautiful Game is Over.'

Professor Samuels has held visiting appointments in the USA at Purdue University and Tulane University. He is currently involved in teaching at masters level in Hong Kong, Singapore and Mauritius, and in the more recent past has taught regularly on programmes in France and Thailand. He has held external examining appointments in the UK in a number of Universities including Warwick, Lancaster, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Oxford and Leeds and overseas in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei, Zimbabwe, Botswana, West Indies, Kuwait, Mauritius, Malta and the National Univesity of Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin.

He has consulted for a number of major companies and international organisations. He has been a non executive director of Wolseley Hughes plc, (later Wolseley plc) Chairman of Link Computers Services and a director of Birmingham Research and Development, of Birmingham Venture Capital and of Birmingham Business Support Centre. Outside the UK he has undertaken consulting work in Kuwait, Cyprus, Pakistan and Nigeria. The appointments he has held outside academic and business life have included being Chairman of Birmingham Volunteer Service Council and a Trustee of the Acton Society.

He has over the years been involved with the editing of a number of journals including Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Applied Economics, and Managerial Finance. He is currently joint editor of Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies.

His research activities have in the past been focused on international accounting and international finance but his more recent work has been connected with the economics of sport.

Dr Uday Phadke MA (Cantab) PhD
Associate Faculty Member

Dr. Uday Phadke is the founder and Chief Executive of Cartezia (www.cartezia.com), which specialises in the design and building of new products, services and businesses for the emerging digital marketplace. The principal focus of his activities is to analyse and create custom-built strategies for new start-ups and many of the world's leading music, newspaper and TV groups, retailers, computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies and financial services organisations.

Dr. Phadke read Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge. His professional career over the last twenty years has spanned technical, operational and business development roles in the engineering, computing, electronics, media and investment industries, punctuated by several spells in academia. Prior to setting up Cartezia in 1997, he was a founder-Director of Generics, a Cambridge-based high technology company that developed innovative new products and services for a wide range of international companies, and European Director of Computing and Telecommunications for PA Consulting.

Dr. Phadke has been extensively involved over the past fifteen years in providing strategic guidance and training to senior executives in a wide range of industries. In particular, he devised and ran the annual top management forums in New York and Los Angeles on Strategic Technology Planning for the Conference Board in the United States. Dr. Phadke has lectured extensively in Europe, North America and Asia on the business impact of digital convergence; in particular, he has delivered keynote addresses at the World Newspaper Congress and the Asia-Pacific Newspaper Publishers Conference. He was previously a Member of the International Council for the Management of Innovation and Technology.

During this period, Dr. Phadke has also advised senior management in a wide range of media, telecommunications, technology and investment companies including Vodafone, Hewlett-Packard, Burda, Mannesman, France Telecom, EMAP, BT, Scottish Telecom, AT&T, Canon, BBC, Reed-Elsevier, ICL, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Scotland, Motorola, Amazon, Hearst, Bear Stearns and Disney. He has also been closely involved in the nurturing of several new mobile and broadband start-ups.

Dr.Phadke is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institutes of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also provides specialist lectures on research and innovation strategies at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Westminister. He has also recently created and delivered a new Masters course in International Entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway University of London. He currently serves on the Boards of several early-stage businesses, including Dezineforce, where he is non-Executive Chairman.

George Eddy Ococ (ACIS, MBA, MSc Finance)
Core Faculty Member

Eddy is a result driven dynamic professional and a team leader with proven track records of professional achievements who displays excellent communication skills. He has extensive knowledge and experience in Accounts, financial management and general administration, educated up to master's degree level he has an innovative outlook for challenges in a changing and demanding work environment. After his formal education Eddy joined the Kensington College of Business where he obtained the graduate ship of the professional Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA). He is currently an Associate member of the Chartered Institute Secretaries & Administrators as well as the Association of Certified & Chartered Accountant (ACCA). Eddy proceeded to the University of East London where he obtained his MBA & Msc Finance in 2004 & 2008 respectively. Eddy has presented research papers in Mergers & Acquisition, case for joining the Euro Zones as well as human resources problems within the NHS and now provides specialist lectures on research methods at the London Academy of Higher Education.

Before joining the academia Eddy worked with Corporate bodies at various capacities like Spear Motors Ltd as an Accountant, Europola Ltd as a Financial Controller, Nayttex International plc as a financial analyst, Connect Nursing Ltd as a Finance manager. He is currently the programme coordinator as well as a senior lecturer at West London School of Management & Technology.