Course Directors

Emerits Professor David Faulkner

Formerly Director of Studies, Said Business School, Oxford, and University of the Creative Arts; Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, Author of Management books published by Oxford University Press. His roles have included: Strategy course Director and Internal examiner of MBA and Member of the Graduate Programmes Committee, Cranfield University Internal PhD Examiner 19931991, Research Fellow and Project Director University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research, and The Judge Institute of Management Studies. 

In 1995 he returned to the University of Oxford where successively Director of the Saed Business School, University of Oxford, and Director of the MBA Programme, Fellow of Christ Church, and Tutor in Management, and Chief Examiner MBA, 2002, and for the BA in Economics and Management.  

Subsequently he was Visiting lecturer/ PhD supervisor/ Examiner in Strategy for the Universities:- Aarhus, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cranfield, Georgetown, USA, Henley/ Brunel, INSEAD, Lancaster, LBS, Oxford, Warwick. 

During the last 15 years he has been Director of Studies and Lecturer in Management at Exeter College, University of Oxford, and Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, Dean of Magna Carta College and President of Oxford Graduate School.

Tony Lavender

CEO of Corporate Development International, is an independent Chartered Manager, educated at Harvard and Oxford.

His background is in PR and Events management, and Consultancy, who has previously served as a senior Government Administrator in the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office with extensive experience in Project Management and Training.

Sandy Saunders

Entrepreneur and Industrial Advisor to the Bank of England and UK and US Investment Institutions, former Member of Council, CBI, the National Economic Development Office, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Executive Chairman of more than 20 Quoted Industrial Groups, Vice- President Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils, and Chairs the Association for South Bucks, and is a former Mayor of Beaconsfield.

His outside interests include Chairing the Beaconsfield Community Association, the Beacon EVT Bursary Fund, Curzon College, and the London Association of Reserve Naval Officers.

He is also Life President of Brain Tumour Research.