Strategic International Advisory Group
Meet the experts who contribute to the strategy and leadership of our Business School.
Our advisory group members
Our advisors hold high-profile roles in businesses and public institutions. They work in partnership with the Dean to support our progress and improvements. This benefits our students, staff and partners, and helps us deliver local, national and international impact.
Meet our advisors
Lee Chambers
Lee is the chief psychologist and founder of Essentialise and Male Allies UK. His diverse career has ranged from corporate finance to building a tech company. He now focuses on supporting organisations to embed and deliver effective wellbeing and inclusion.
Lee holds the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellowship, Freedom of the City of London and the UN Women Changemaker Award. He sits on the CMI Women’s Board and is an ambassador for the UK Government’s Lilac Review for Disabled Entrepreneurship.
Go to Lee’s LinkedIn profile.
Adele Every
Adele is the managing director for the public sector at Cisco. Focused on enabling secure, next-generation government services, she leads teams working with complex ecosystems, supporting the digital transformation agenda. Before joining Cisco, she spent 17 years at Capgemini.
She works with academia, government, start-ups and large businesses to improve skills across communities. She is a trustee for the National Centre for Universities and Business.
Laoise Flanagan
Laoise is a director at Deloitte with over 20 years’ experience. She leads the UK Education Sector team’s focus on organisational resilience and strategy, and the Private Growth team in North and South Europe. She also mentors a significant network across the business.
Laoise is a visiting professor at Manchester Met and chairs the Strategic International Advisory Group at the Business School.
Katie Gallagher, OBE
Katie runs two not-for-profit organisations, chairs the UK Tech Cluster Group and sits on the Digital Skills Council. She is an experienced founder and strategist with over 15 years’ of experience across start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, and public and private sector partnerships.
Silvia Hernandez
Silvia is a member of Accenture’s Global Talent and Organisation Executive Committee. She is also the Stuttgart Hub Lead and the Global Products Industry Talent and Organisation Lead.
For over two decades, she has held leadership roles in automotive, innovation and advisory.
Silvia is a proud sponsor of our diversity initiatives and an LGBTQ+ and mental health ally. She is an active member of networks that support female founders, young entrepreneurs, and female representation in the C-suite and supervisory boards.
Silvia is a thought leader, author and public speaker. She frequently speaks at international conferences.
Mark Jarvis
Mark is an experienced non-executive director and former Global and Group Chief Financial Officer at EY with over 40 years experience in the broad banking and professional services market.
View Mark’s LinkedIn profile.
Sahib Patel
Sahib is currently the Global Finance Leader for Amazon Business Payments and Lending, responsible for steering the firm’s long-term payments strategy and FP&A function.
View Sahib’s LinkedIn profile.
Stephen Church
Stephen is EY’s Market Leader for the North of England, leading a 2000 strong team, supporting entrepreneurial businesses and large corporate and public sector entities.
He brings 30 years of experience from working across multiple industry sectors. Stephen builds connections across leadership, sector and industry boundaries delivering digitally enabled transformation for clients with demanding change agendas.
Stevie Spring
Stevie Spring CBE has served on many public, private equity, membership and charity boards. Currently, she is chairman-elect of PRS for Music, the global music rights organisation.
She is also an independent non-executive director and chairman for the £11bn turnover Coop Group; a member of the Pladis global advisory board; an investor advisor to two tech companies; and chair of Mind, the mental health charity.
Stevie was named by GQ magazine as one of the UK’s 100 most connected women. She is on Debrett’s list of Britain’s 500 most influential people, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
Tim Williams
Tim is the Chief Executive of Oxford United Football Club. He has over 25 years of professional finance experience, including more than 15 years in sport, media, advertising and entertainment.
View Tim’s LinkedIn profile.
