Staff Directory

Management Team

• Professor Michael West (Executive Dean)
• Professor John Edwards (Deputy Dean)
• Ms Jane Filby (Director Planning & Resources)
• Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone (Director of Executive Development)
• Ms Kelly-Anne Lewis (Director of Marketing & Communications)
• Dr Gary Simpson (Associate Dean Learning & Teaching)
• Professor Pawan Budhwar (Associate Dean Research)
• Dr Patrick Tissington (Associate Dean Business Partnerships)

Staff Groups

• Executive Dean's Office
• Marketing & Alumni office
  
• Postgraduate Programme
• Undergraduate Programme
• Economics & Strategy Group
• Finance, Accounting & Law Group
• Marketing Group
• Operations & Information Management Group
• Work & Organisational Psychology Group
• Aston Academy for Research into Management
• Doctoral Services
• Centre for Executive Development
• Innovation Voucher Advice Centre
  

Executive Dean's Office

• Mrs Claire Bates (PA to Executive Dean of ABS)
• Professor David Bennett (Head of International Liaison)
• Ms Sarah Carey (HR Adviser)
• Ms Jane Filby (Director Planning & Resources)
• Mrs Julie Green (Quality Manager)
• Ms Kelly-Anne Lewis (Director of Marketing & Communications)
• Mrs Carole Lydon (Administrator/PA to Director of Planning & Resources)
• Ms Julie Smith (Quality Secretary)
• Mr Stuart Steele (Web Analyst)
• Prof Michael West (Executive Dean of Aston Business School)

Marketing & Alumni office

• Ms Kelly-Anne Lewis (Director of Marketing & Communications)
• Mrs Patricia Bradshaw (Events & Communications Officer)
• Ms Katy Barry (Alumni Relations Officer)
• Ms Paula Kersten (Alumni Relations Officer)
• Mr Paul Hebron (Alumni Relations Officer)

Postgraduate Programme

• Ms Lindsey Allsopp (Examinations & Administration Manager)
• Ms Katy Barry (PG Alumni Relations Officer)
• Ms Jean Bonas (Student & Programme Support Office Manager)
• Ms Samantha Bonnaud (Senior Admissions Co-Ordinator)
• Mrs Caroline Bowman (International Relations Co-ordinator)
• Ms Mandeep Dhillon (MSc Admissions co-ordinator)
• Mrs Jenny Evans (MBA Programme Manager)
• Ms Laura Hawkridge (Examinations Assistant & Course Materials Co-ordinator)
• Ms Jenny Holt (Examinations Officer)
• Mrs Ravinder Kalsi (Course Co-ordinator)
• Mr John Mcbrien (MBA Student Support Co-ordinator)
• Mr Oliver Mihailovic (Course Co-ordinator)
• Miss Melvina Neale (MBA Programme Co-ordinator)
• Dr Brigitte Nicoulaud (Director MBA (Internal))
• Dr Kathryn Priest (Director MSc Programme)
• Mr Robert Spurling (Admissions Co-ordinator)
• Mrs Elsa Zenatti-Daniels (International Co-ordinator)

Undergraduate Programme

• Mrs Dashi Alpion (Placements Advisor)
• Miss Hazel Awty (Student Support Co-ordinator)
• Ms Nicola Bullivant (Placements Manager)
• Ms Elaine Clarke (Director Undergraduate Programme)
• Ms Rachel Cox (International Placement Officer)
• Mrs Maureen Creighton (Coursework Room Assistant)
• Miss Rebecca Daly (Examinations & Assessment Manager)
• Miss Joanne Duggan (Assessment Co-ordinator)
• Miss Laura Ellen (Student Support Co-ordinator)
• Mrs Anne Essex (Information Manager)
• Ms Hilary Fletcher (Placement Assistant)
• Ms Catherine Foster (Widening Participation Development Officer)
• Mrs Rosine Horton (Student Support Co-ordinator)
• Mr Simon Jones (Admissions & Marketing Manager)
• Ms Carolyn Keenan (Placement Student Support Officer)
• Mr John Kenny (Admissions & Recruitment Assistant)
• Miss Helen Mcguirk (Admissions Secretary)
• Mrs Louise Millard (UG Programme Manager)
• Miss Karen Nisbett (Admissions & Marketing Officer)
• Mrs Roanna Pain (Student Support co-ordinator)
• Miss Pamela Pinski (Admissions/Marketing Support Officer)
• Mrs Sheila Roberts (Timetabling Officer)
• Miss Carolina Salinas (International Placement Officer)
• Mrs Emma Szurminski (UG Programme Manager)
• Mrs Selena Teeling (HELM Research Administrator)
• Mr Demian Wilhelm (Placements Assistant)
• Miss Abigail Williams (PA/Undergraduate Secretary)

Economics & Strategy Group

• Dr Jane Binner (Reader)
• Dr Rakesh Bissoondeeal (Lecturer)
• Miss Liz Blackford (Group Administrator)
• Miss Besime Bozkurt (Research Fellow)
• Dr Kyle Bruce (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Jo Crotty (Senior Lecturer)
• Ms Minjia Chen (Research Fellow)
• Prof Nigel Driffield (Head of Group)
• Dr Jun Du (Lecturer)  
• Dr Yundan Gong (Lecturer)
• Professor Mark Hart (Professor)
• Dr Michael Henry (Lecturer)
• Dr Hiro Izushi (Senior Lecturer)
• Prof Paula Jarzabkowski (Professor)
• Dr Chris Jones (Research Fellow)
• Mr Barry Jones (Visiting Scholar)
• Dr Josephine Kelly (Lecturer)
• Dr Jane Lê (née Matthiesen) (Lecturer)
• Dr Graham Leask (Lecturer)
• Prof Jim Love
• Miss Natalja Martjanova (Lecturer)
• Mr Stefeno Menghinello (Research Associate)
• Miss Kelly Moore (Assistant Group Administrator)
• Mr Matthew Olczak (Lecturer)  
• Mr John Overend (BA Course Director)
• Dr Peter Rodgers (Contract Research Fellow)
• Professor Mark Rogers (Professor)
• Dr David Saal (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Vania Sena (Reader)
• Dr Paul Simmonds (Lecturer) 
• Dr Michael Smets (Lecturer)
• Mr Paul Spee (Research Fellow)
• Dr Pawan Tamvada (Lecturer) 
• Dr Efstathios Tapinos (Lecturer)
• Mr Yama Temouri (Research Fellow)
• Mr Kirit Vaidya (Senior Lecturer)

Finance, Accounting & Law Group

• Femi Alese (Lecturer)
• Omneya Abd-Elsalam (Senior Lecturer)
• Mrs Shereen Awan (Assistant Group Administrator)
• Prof David Bainbridge (Emeritus Professor)
• Dr Ilias Basioudis (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Ataur Belal (Lecturer)
• Prof Stan Brignall (Professor)
• Dr James Brown (Lecturer)
• Sir Adrian Cadbury (Honorary Professor)
• Prof Patricia Chelley-Steeley (Professor)
• Dr Anastasia Chivikova (Lecturer)
• Dr Stuart Cooper (Senior Lecturer)
• Mr Matt Davies (Lecturer)
• Dr Amedeo De Cesari (Lecturer in Finance)
• Mr Robert Goddard (Senior Lecturer)
• Ms Ifigenia Georgiou (Lecturer)
• Dr Kathryn Haynes (Reader in Accounting)
• Ms Claire Howell (Senior Lecturer)
• Ms Odette Hutchinson (Lecturer in Law)
• Dr Alfonsina Iona (Lecturer)
• Professor Nathan Joseph (Professor of Finance)
• Dr Neophytos Lambertides (Lecturer)
• Prof Alan Lowe (Research Convenor)
• Dr Melina Manochin (Lecturer)
• Mr Frank Meisel (Senior Lecturer)
• Professor Graham Pearce (Visiting Professor of Public Policy & Management)
• Professor Jill Poole (Professor of Commercial Law)
• Mr James Roebuck (Lecturer in Law)
• Dr Graham Sadler (Lecturer)
• Mrs Rosaleen Shirley (Group Administrator)
• Prof Jim Steeley (Professor of Finance / Head of Group)
• Mr Mike Tricker (Senior Lecturer)
• Mrs Margaret Woods (Reader in Accounting)

Marketing Group

• Dr Anna Ackfeldt (Lecturer)
• Dr Evmorfia Argyriou (Sessional Lecturer)
• Ms Laura Chamberlain (Lecturer)
• George Christodoulides (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Ian Combe (Lecturer in Marketing)
• Professor Leslie de Chernatony (Honorary Professor of Brand Marketing)
• Dr Ronan De Kervenoael (Lecturer)
• Karen Dent (Sessional Lecturer)
• Mrs Samantha Doidge (Group Administrator)
• Dr Andrew Farrell (Lecturer)
• Stephanie Feireisen (Sessional Lecturer)
• Professor Keith Fletcher (Visiting Professor)
• Dr David Gilliland (Senior Lecturer)
• Keith Glanfield (Sessional Lecturer)
• Jane Gravells (Sessional Lecturer)
• Prof Gordon Greenley (Head of Group)
• Iftakar Haji (Sessional Lecturer)
• Prof Graham Hooley (Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor)
• Mike Hussey (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Jill Jesson (Lecturer)
• Mrs Darshan Kitare (Research Administrator)
• Professor Nick Lee (Professor) 
• Professor Malcolm McDonald (Visiting Professor)
• Dr Neeru Malhotra (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Erik Mooi (Lecturer)
• Dr Brigitte Nicoulaud (Director MBA (Internal))
• Ms Basia Nowakowska (Group Administrator, Maternity Cover)
• Tony Oakley (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Mark Palmer (Senior Lecturer)
• Geoff Parkes (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Riliang Qu (Lecturer)
• Chris Richardson (Lecturer)
• Dr John Rudd (Lecturer in Marketing and Strategic Management)
• Prof John Saunders (Professor of Marketing)
• Hans Schlappa (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Aarti Sood (Lecturer)
• Dr Vasilis Theoharakis (Senior Lecturer)
• Prof Veronica Wong (Professor)
• Joobee Yeow (Sessional Lecturer)

Operations & Information Management Group

• Mrs Zeenat Ahmad (CPMP Executive)
• Dr Pavel Albores (Lecturer)
• Prof David Bennett (Professor of Technology Management)
• Mr Paul Bocij (Teaching Fellow)
• Dr Christopher Brewster (Lecturer)  
• Miss Grace Bruce (Assistant Group Administrator) 
• Dr Peter Burcher (Head of Group)
• Dr Ben Clegg (Senior Lecturer/Research Group Convenor)
• Dr Ozren Despic (Lecturer)
• Dr Prasanta Dey (Reader in Operations Management)
• Prof John Edwards (Deputy Dean & Head of Faculty)
• Dr Ali Emrouznejad (Senior Lecturer)
• Mrs Jill Forrest (Research Support Officer)
• Dr Panagiotis Ganotakis (Lecturer) 
• Dr Roya Gholami (Lecturer)
• Dr Andrew Greasley(Lecturer)
• Dr Matthew Hall (Lecturer / Director of International Relations)
• Professor Helen Higson (Professor of Higher Education Learning & Management / PVC External Relations)
• Dr William Ho (BAM Course Director/Lecturer)
• Mr John Kidd (Honorary Visiting Lecturer)
• Dr Doug Love (Senior Lecturer)
• Mr John Morley (Group Administrator)
• Professor Duncan Shaw (Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems/Director of The Aston CRISIS Centre)
• Dr Gary Simpson (Associate Dean : Learning & Teaching)
• Prof Emmanuel Thanassoulis (Professor)

Work & Organisational Psychology Group

• Mrs Lul Adamasachew (Research Fellow)
• Prof Sam Aryee (Director Research Degrees Programme)
• Prof Pawan Budhwar (Associate Dean Research)
• Dr Michael Butler (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Matthew Carter (Research Fellow)
• Prof Cary Cooper (Visiting Professor)
• Dr Jonathan Crawshaw (Lecturer)
• Ms Kathryn Daniels (Sessional Lecturer)
• Dr Ann Davis (Senior Lecturer)
• Mr Jeremy Dawson (RRUK Research Fellow)
• Dr Olga Epitropaki (Senior Lecturer)  
• Dr Yves Guillaume (Lecturer)
• Prof Margaret Harris (Emeritus Professor)
• Miss Debbie Harrison (Research Administrator)
• Mr Graham Hieke (Research Associate)
• Prof Robin Martin (Head of Group)
• Dr Paul Naylor (Senior Research Fellow) 
• Mrs Carole Parkes (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Emily Payne (Research Administrator)
• Dr Cinzia Priola (Lecturer)
• Miss Joanne Richardson (Research Fellow)
• Dr Claudia Sacramento (Lecturer)
• Dr Judy Scully (Lecturer)
• Dr Helen Shipton (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Nicholas Theodorakopoulos (Lecturer)
• Mrs Jenny Thompson (Group Administrator)
• Dr Geoff Thomas (Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Patrick Tissington (Associate Dean Business Partnership)
• Miss Anna Topaka (Research Fellow)
• Mr John Watt (Sessional Lecturer)
• Prof Michael West (Executive Dean of Aston Business School)
• Dr Stephen Woods (Lecturer)
• Ms Lynne Woolley (PA to Head of Group)

Aston Academy for Research into Management

• Miss Nic Felton (Research Support Officer)
• Ms Debbie Evans (Research Administrator)
• Ms Maria Podsiadly (Senior Administrator)
• Mrs Bhomali Grover (AARM assistant)

Doctoral Services

• Ms Catherine Pouncett (Research Degrees Programme Manager)
• Ms Jeanette Ikuomola (PhD/MSc Administrator)

• Ms Ranjit Gill (DBA Administrator)

Centre for Executive Development

• Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone (Director of Executive Development)
• Mr Jim Dickson (Development Director)
  
• Mr Terry Hodgetts (Programme Director)
• Ms Tanya Lomas (Client Manager)
• Mrs Irene Vickers (PA to Head of Executive Development)
• Mr Jamie Whitehouse (Office Administrator)
• Ms Jodie Woodward (Client Manager)

Innovation Voucher Advice Centre

• Mr Andrew Wilson (Innovation Voucher Project Manager / ABS Technology Project Manager)
  
• Miss Rebecca Cudby (Senior Administrator)
• Mr Adam Hewitt (Research Administrator)
• Mrs Dawn Vaughan (Research Administrator)