Martin Lockett

Biography

Professor Martin Lockett’s career brings together the academic and business worlds. After 13 years’ research and teaching in leading universities (Cambridge, Open University, Imperial College, Oxford), he spent 16 years in a variety of senior business roles including general management, strategy consulting, business development, and management of major change programmes.  This included working for John Lewis, KPMG, American Management Systems, Sapient and Arthur D Little with experience in Europe, Asia, US, Middle East and Africa.  He then moved back to the academic world at Ashridge where he became Dean of Academic Development.  This included leading the international development of Ashridge, managing international partners and agents; obtaining degree awarding powers and maintaining/ improving Ashridge’s business school triple accreditation; design of undergraduate and postgraduate degree frameworks; and research and postgraduate teaching.  He then designed and led the academic integration of Ashridge and Hult International Business School, with campuses in the US, UK, Middle East and China.  In 2017, he moved to his current role as Dean of the Faculty of Business at UNNC.

Research Interest

During his career, Martin has researched and published academic and professional publications in a range of areas including: Chinese management and its relationship to culture China’s economy, business, foreign trade and investment Systems thinking and organisations The factors behind successful IT innovation Information systems strategy and management Cooperative ownership in the UK and China Recent research has included: Project portfolio management Organisational and business implications of aging populations International higher education management (especially comparison of UK and US) Quality assurance of global universities