Andrew Kakabadse is professor of governance and leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading and emeritus professor at Cranfield University School of Management. [1] He has consulted and lectured in the UK, Europe, the US, SE Asia, China, Japan, Russia, Georgia, the Gulf states and Australia. [2] He has also published 32 books, over 200 journal articles and 18 monographs. Andrew has held positions on the boards of a number of companies and has also been an adviser to a Channel 4 business series. [3] He is currently embarked on a major world study of boardroom effectiveness and governance practice. [4] A number of governments are participating in this new study, including British Ministers of State. [5] He has been awarded a £2 million research grant to examine governance and leadership in the private sector and with governments. [6]
In addition to being a professor of international management development at Cranfield University School of Management, Andrew is also currently visiting professor at the University of Ulster; [7] visiting scholar in residence at Thunderbird School of Global Management, US; [8] visiting professor at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia; visiting professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Melbourne, Australia. He was also acting visiting professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, [9] was visiting professor at Hangzhou University, China, [10] was visiting fellow at Babson College, [11] Boston, US, was honorary professorial fellow, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, [5] and was the H Smith Richardson Visiting Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina, US, October 2005 - 2006. [12] Andrew is often sought out by media to comment on global business topics, most recently in The Times [13] and Time magazine. [14]
Andrew is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, [15] and he sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Managerial Psychology [16] and the Leadership and Organisation Development Journal. [17] He is also a fellow of the International Academy of Management and Economics, [18] fellow of the British Psychological Society [19] and fellow of the British Academy of Management. [20] He is ranked 14= in the HR Most Influential 2012 UK Thinker list. [21] He is also ranked as one of the top 50 most influential management gurus in the world. Source: Harvard Business Review.