Stephen J. Perkins JP DPhil (Oxon) is an Emeritus Professor, London Metropolitan University
and a Senior Research Fellow with the Global Policy Institute, London. His doctoral thesis at the
University of Oxford analysed strategies for managing senior management activity under the
rubric of Anglo-American corporate governance principles. He is a Chartered Manager and
Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Personnel and Development, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Immediate
past Chair of the Corporate Governance Special Interest Group of the British Academy of
Management, he has occupied a series of senior management posts in industry during privatization
and internationalization initiatives, served as secretary to a FTSE top-30 board remuneration
committee, as a board non-executive director, and as an advisor to an array of state-owned and
stock market-listed companies transnatio
