Warwick Business School has appointed a new Dean

Professor Mark Taylor has been appointed by the University of Warwick as the new Dean at the Warwick Business School, and he will take up his new post in the summer term. Professor Taylor comes with outstanding credentials in the worlds of academia and business.

Since 1999 Professor Taylor has held a professorship in international finance at Warwick University. However, he has been on leave for the last four years while he's been working as a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. In this post he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund.

Prior to his Professorship at Warwick, he was a Fellow of University College, Oxford, and has also held professorships at Cass Business School and at Liverpool University and was Visiting Professor of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was also a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, for five years and an Economist at the Bank of England.

Professor Taylor says, 'I want to consolidate and build on WBS's success to make us a leading intellectual powerhouse among business schools, where academic excellence and business relevance in research and teaching are one and the same thing.'

The Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick, Professor Nigel Thrift says, 'Mark Taylor has all the right qualities and experience for leading and developing the strengths of Warwick Business School. We carried out an exhaustive global search to find our new Dean and we are convinced that Mark's international experience of business and leadership and superb academic credentials are a winning and exciting combination.'

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Content added on 8th March 2010.

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