Our staff
Staff Categories
A full list of staff categories at Birkbeck's Department of Management. If you have a query about studying with us or require further information about the department, please contact us via phone or email.
Head of Department
- Libon Fung, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Deputy Head of Department
- Richard Tacon, Senior Lecturer in Management
Academic staff
- Abdulrahman Al-Surmi, Lecturer in Business Analytics
- Birgitte Andersen, Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation
- Luca Andriani, Senior Lecturer in Economics
- Daniele Archibugi, Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy
- Oliver Barish, Lecturer in Management
- Ioanna Boulouta, Lecturer in Management
- Konstantinos Chalkias, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Sara Chaudhry, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Benedetta Crisafulli, Senior Lecturer in Marketing
- Muthu De Silva, Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Marion Frenz, Reader in Management
- Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Qian Guo, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management
- Frederick Guy, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Amy Hackley, Senior Lecturer in Marketing
- Sean Hamil, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Chunjia Han, Senior Lecturer in Business Innovation
- Wendy Hein, Senior Lecturer in Marketing
- Kevin Ibeh, Professor of Marketing and International Business
- Odile Janne, Lecturer in Management
- Sue Konzelmann, Professor in Economics
- Ashok Kumar, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
- Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship
- Xiaming Liu, Professor in International Business
- Panagiota Makrychoriti, Lecturer in Financial Management
- Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Professor of Finance
- Lorenzo Neri, Lecturer in Accounting
- Klaus Nielsen, Professor of Institutional Economics
- Grace Bo Peng, Lecturer in Management
- Arron Phillips, Lecturer in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
- Sorin Piperca, Lecturer in Management
- Nick Pronger, Lecturer in Management and Marketing
- Neil Pyper, Senior Lecturer in International Business
- Federica Rossi, Reader in Innovation Policy and Management
- Giambattista Rossi, Lecturer in Sport Labour Markets
- Ammar Sammour, Lecturer in Marketing
- Karin Shields, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
- Olivier Sibai, Lecturer in Marketing
- Peter Trim, Reader in Marketing and Security Management
- Horen Voskeritsian, Lecturer in Management
- Anita Walsh, Professor in Work-Based Learning
- Geoff Walters, Professor in Management, Dean of BEI
- Fred Yamoah, Reader in Sustainability
- Mu Yang, Senior Lecturer in Management
- Pamela Yeow, Reader in Management
- Ellen Pei-yi Yu, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management
Professional and Support Staff
Support Staff
- Rhiannon Guy, Assistant School Manager
- Christina Buchmann, Senior Team Leader
- Dominic Funston, School IT Support Officer
- Edward Ciacci, Administrative Assistant, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1783
Postgraduate Team
- Em Fleming, Team Leader
- Joshua Jayraj, Postgraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1769
- Sadia Hussain, Postgraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1767
- Cherise Asante, Postgraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1761
Undergraduate team
- Simon Dunderdale, Team Leader
- Liam Gannicliffe, Undergraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1191
- Ben Gardner, Undergraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1241
- Imogen Stirland, Undergraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1773
- Alison Worthington, Undergraduate Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 3926 1761
Learning Development Tutors
- Ryan Arthur, Learning Co-ordinator (writing skills)
- Eva Szatmari, Learning Co-ordinator (maths skills)
- Andrew Silverman, Learning Co-ordinator (English language skills)
Associated Staff
Honorary Research Fellows
- Professor Brij B. Gupta (website)
Brij B. Gupta is a Director, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media and networking.
Visiting Professors
- Professor Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Grazia Ietto-Gillies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics and Director of Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS), London South Bank University. She works closely with colleagues in the CIMR carrying out empirical research set at the interface between internationalisation and innovation studies. Their joint research led to numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and reports for the United Nations and the European Commission. - Professor Asa Lindholm Dahlstrand
Asa Lindholm Dahlstrand is a professor at CIRCLE, Lund University, and was formerly at the School of Business and Engineering, Halmstad University, Sweden. She is an internationally recognised expert in entrepreneurship and technology transfer. She was awarded a PhD in the Department of Industrial Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology in 1994. Since then she has held a number of positions at Chalmers, is a member of the management team of RIDE (R&D, Innovation and Dynamics of Economies), a Centre of Excellence at IMIT/Chalmers, having been Director of RIDE for three years. - Professor Carlo Milana
Carlo Milana is formerly Research Director of the Public Economic Policy Institute (ISAE). He has led several important projects there, often in collaboration with the European Commission and other international organisations such as the OECD. Dr Milana is now in London for a European Commission research project on productivity. He is the Managing Editor of Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance. - Profssor Jonathon Potter
Jon Potter is Senior Economist in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE) at the OECD. His work for the OECD includes in-depth analysis and policy development for governments around the world such as Korea, Thailand, Russia and Mexico. He is a member of the Big Innovation Centre steering group. He is on the Editorial Board of Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance and is a Fellow of the Institution of Economic Development and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Visiting Research Fellows
- Dr Simon Philbin
- Mr Ray Lambert
- Dr Linjie Li
- Professor Thierry Rayna
- Dr Juan Paramio Salcines
- Dr Anastasia Stathopoulou
- Mr Rupert Waters
Rupert Waters is an economic geographer who is both an academic and a public policy research and management practitioner. He is Head of Economic Research and Infrastructure, Buckinghamshire Business First. He leads Buckinghamshire’s responses to all Government economic development polices, including securing Local Enterprise Partnership status for Buckinghamshire, and bringing together theory and local and national data to lobby Ministers for policy support in meeting the economic challenges facing Buckinghamshire. He previously worked as a consultant at Deloitte, KPMG, and GLE. His academic and policy work has focused particularly on Regional and Local economic development strategy, scientific labour markets, innovation, technology and higher education, and urban and rural regeneration analysis.
Teaching and Scholarship Staff: Associate Lecturers
- Seyi Adesina
- Dabir Ahmed
- Fahema Ahmed
- Rizwan Ahmed
- Alban Asllani
- Riccardo Benzo
- Sumeet Chahal
- Magda Hercheui
- Peter Hirsch
- Asif Kalam
- Kofi Narh-Saam
- Daniel Neofetou
- Lilian Onuegbu
- Mary Otiotio
- Davide Padovani
- Mark Panton
- Edwin Phiri
- Nabil Rafiq
- Saverio Romeo
- Peter Ross
- Megan Sullivan
- Ariel Sun
- Jennifer White