CV—Thomas Ahrens

ahrens101@gmail.com, +971 50 5772927, PO Box 68224, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Appointments

Professor of Accounting and Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre,

United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), from September 2010

Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick,

January 2005-August 2010

Associate Dean (MBA), WBS, August 2006-July 2009

Senior Lecturer in Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science

(LSE), October 2002-December 2004

Lecturer in Accounting, LSE, September 1996-September 2002

Lecturer in Accounting, University of Southampton, July 1995-August 1996

Assistant Auditor, Arthur Andersen, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1991-May 1992

Education

PhD Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science

(LSE), 1996, Contrasting Involvements: An Ethnographic Study of Management

Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany

MSc Accounting and Finance, LSE, 1991

BA (Hons) European Business Administration and Dipl-Betriebswirt (FH), Middlesex

Polytechnic/London and FH Reutlingen/Germany (joint degree programme), 1990

Editorial Boards

Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research since 2012 (current term runs until 2017),

Associate Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research 2010-2011

Co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance since 2006

Member of the Editorial Boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society since 2005,

the European Accounting Review 2003-2011, Management Accounting Research

since 2007, and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management since 2014

Research

My research has focused on the uses of financial information for organisational

control and corporate governance. Through field research in various private and

public sector organisations I have studied specific ways of integrating financial

control into management and governance practices. My publications have addressed

issues of

The links between financial control and accountability, organisational culture,

and strategy

Governance

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Anglo-German comparisons of management accounting and control

Interpretive and qualitative field research methodologies in accounting and

governance

Practice theory

See http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=r4ZKlM0AAAAJ for citations of

my work.

UAEU Corporate Governance Centre

I founded this centre when I came to the UAE in 2010 and have been directing it

since. The centre is dedicated to the study of governance practices that are relevant to

the UAE. Among its research projects have been governance-related research into the

Abu Dhabi health system, and the UAE higher education system, the roles of directors

of UAE companies, innovation in UAE start-up companies, and organisational

excellence awards in government. In 2011 Memoranda of Understanding with the

Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the UAE Securities and

Commodities Authority were signed as frameworks for agreeing joint research.

Working Papers

T. Ahrens, Strategies of action that underpin organisational institutions: A field study

of influential management control and quality management practices

T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Using management control theory to understand recent public

sector corporate governance changes: localism, the public interest, and enabling

control in an English local authority

T. Ahrens, B. Catasus and G. Johed, Interactional and contributory accounting

expertise on the board of directors

T. Ahrens, C. S. Chapman and R. Khalifa, A conceptual framework for researching

corporate governance practices

T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, NCC and the grassroots: Accountability and accounting under

austerity

T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Endogenous institutional change through practice memories

of accounting: Medium term austerity budgeting in an English local authority

T. Ahrens, F. Fabel and R. Khalifa, Legitimacy, legality, and accountability in cross-

border audits of development NGOs

T. Ahrens and G. Johed, Board work as organized hypocrisy: decoupling the audit

committee and IFRS from the board

T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Are university students making rational choices that can

strengthen the knowledge economy? A field study of the UAE

T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Political arenas in public sector performance management: A

hermeneutics of benchmarking in an English local authority in the wake of the 2011

Localism Act

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Peer Reviewed Journals

R. Zacca, M. Dayan and T. Ahrens, Impact of Network Capability on Small

Business Performance, Management Decision (in press)

T. Ahrens, Tracing the evolution of the Dubai Government Excellence Program,

Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences (2014) 30(1) pp. 2-15

T. Ahrens, Assembling the Dubai Government Excellence Program—A motivational

approach to improving public service governance in a monarchical context,

International Journal of Public Sector Management (2013) 26(7) pp. 576-592 (winner

of the 2012 Tawazun Best Paper Award at the Summer Research Presentation,

College of Business and Economics, UAEU)

T. Ahrens and R. Khalifa, Researching the lived experience of corporate governance,

Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management (2013) 10(1) pp. 4-30

T. Ahrens, I. Filatotchev, and S. Thomsen, The research frontier in corporate

governance, Journal of Management and Governance (2011) 15(3) pp. 311-325

T. Ahrens, A. Becker, J. Burns, C. S. Chapman, M. Granlund, M. Habersam, A.

Hansen, R. Khalifa, T. Malmi, A. Mennicken, A. Mikes, F. Panozzo, M. Piber, P.

Quattrone and T. Scheytt, The future of interpretive accounting research: a

polyphonic debate, Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2008) 19(6) pp. 840-866

T. Ahrens, Overcoming the subjective-objective divide in interpretive management

accounting research, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2008) 33(2-3) pp. 292-

297

T. Ahrens, The hidden ethics of corporate governance and the practical uses of

corporate governance codes: A commentary on Bhimani, Journal of Management and

Governance (2008) 12(2) pp. 149-152

T. Ahrens and M. Mollona, Organisational control as cultural practice—a shop floor

ethnography of a Sheffield steel mill, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2007)

32(4-5) pp. 305-331

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Management accounting as practice, Accounting,

Organizations and Society (2007) 32(1-2) pp. 1-27

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Doing qualitative field studies: positioning data to

contribute to theory, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2006) 31(8) pp. 819-841

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Accounting for flexibility and efficiency: A field study

of management control systems in a restaurant chain, Contemporary Accounting

Research (2004) 21(2) pp. 271-301 (republished in the Contemporary Accounting

Research Virtual Issue on Field Research, 2012)

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The structuration of legitimate performance measures

and management: Day-to-day contests of accountability in a U.K. restaurant chain,

Management Accounting Research (2002) 13(2) pp. 1-21 (runner-up for the David

Solomons Prize for best paper)

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Occupational identity of management accountants in

Britain and Germany, European Accounting Review (2000) 9(4) pp. 477-498

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T. Ahrens and J. Dent, Accounting and organizations: Realising the richness of field

research, Journal of Management Accounting Research (1998) 10 pp. 1-39

T. Ahrens, Talking accounting: An ethnography of management knowledge in British

and German brewers, Accounting, Organizations and Society (1997) 22(7) pp. 617-

637

T. Ahrens, Strategic interventions of management accountants: Everyday practice of

British and German brewers, European Accounting Review (1997) 6(4), pp. 557-588

T. Ahrens, Styles of Accountability, Accounting, Organizations and Society (1996)

21(2/3) pp. 139-173

Books

T. Ahrens, Contrasting Involvements: A Study of Management Accounting Practices

in Britain and Germany, monograph series “Management, Organisation and Society”,

Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishing (1999), 152 pages

Book Chapters

T. Ahrens, Everyday accounting practices and intentionality, in C. S. Chapman, D. J.

Cooper and P. B. Miller (eds.) Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions, Oxford:

Oxford University Press (2009), chapter 2, pp. 30-47

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Loosely coupled performance measurement systems

[revised version], in A. D. Neely (ed.), Business Performance Measurement— Unifying Theory and Integrating Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(2nd ed., 2007), pp. 477-491

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Doing qualitative field studies, in C. S. Chapman, A.

G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of management accounting

research, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing (2007), volume 1, chapter 3, pp. 99-112 (The

Handbook won the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting

Association 2008 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature

Award.)

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Theorizing practice in management accounting

research, in C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of

management accounting research, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing (2007), volume 1,

chapter 11, pp. 299-318

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, New measures in performance management, in A.

Bhimani (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting, Oxford: Oxford

University Press (2006), chapter 1, pp. 1-19

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Accounting and the crafting of strategy: a practice-

based view, in C. S. Chapman (ed.), Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting,

and Performance Measurement, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005) chapter 6,

pp. 106-124

T. Ahrens, Refining research questions in the course of negotiating access for

fieldwork, in C. G. Humphrey and W. Lee (eds.) Real Life Guide to Accounting

Research, Oxford: Elsevier (2004) chapter 17, pp. 295-307

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T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Loosely coupled performance measurement systems,

in A. D. Neely (ed.), Business Performance Measurement—Theory and Practice,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002) pp. 244-258

T. Ahrens, Introducing the commercial manager: Management accounting support for

the sales function, case study with teaching note, in T. Groot & K. Lukka (eds.),

Cases in Management Accounting: Current practices in European companies, Essex:

Pearson Education (2000) pp. 147-159

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Sustaining antagonistic harmony: Food margin

management in a UK restaurant chain, in A. D. Neely & D. B. Waggoner (eds.),

Performance Measurement—Theory and Practice, vol. 1, Cambridge: Centre for

Business Performance (1998) pp. 1-6

T. Ahrens, Financial and operational modes of accountability, in: R. Munro & J.

Mouritsen (eds.), Accountability: Power, Ethos and the Technologies of Managing,

London: International Thomson Business Press (1996) pp. 149-163

Book Reviews

T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Making Political Science Matter’, by Sanford F. Schram

& Brian Caterino (eds.) (New York University Press, 2006), European Accounting

Review (2007) 16(2) pp. 460-463

T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Globalization, Management Control and Ideology’, by

Riad Ajami, C. Edward Arrington, Falconer Mitchell, and Hanne Nørreklit (editors)

(DJØF Publishing, 2005), European Accounting Review (2006) 15(3) pp. 431-433

T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘The Ethnographic Imagination’, by Paul Willis (Polity

Press, 2000), British Journal of Sociology (2002) 53(3) p. 510

T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Making Social Science Matter’, by Bent Flyvbjerg

(Cambridge University Press, 2001), European Accounting Review (2002) 11(3) pp.

633-638

Other Publications

T. Ahrens & C. S. Chapman, In defence of the double-blind review, EAA Newsletter

(2014) issue 2 pp. 13-14

T. Ahrens, Company directors’ knowledge of insider trading: a contextual analysis, A

report for the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (2013)

T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Enabling Emiratis to Drive the Knowledge Economy

through Higher Education Governance: A Symbolic Boundaries Approach, A report

for the UAE Federal Demographic Council (2012)

T. Ahrens, Management Accounting Studies Guide for the External Programme,

University of London (2005)

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Organizational roles of management accountants, in:

C. Clubb (ed.), Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, vol. 1, Accounting, Oxford:

Blackwell (2nd edition, 2005) pp. 327-332

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Hereford Steak Houses: A case illustrating flexible

budgeting and variance analysis in a chain restaurant (with teaching note), in C. T.

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Horngren, A. Bhimani, S. M. Datar and G. Foster (eds.) Management and Cost

Accounting, Harlow: Prentice Hall Europe (3rd edition, 2004) pp. 633-635 & later

editions

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Thought piece: Management accounting in practice—

from business models to modelling the business, European Accounting Association

(EAA) Members Newswire (March 2004) issue 6, online publication available under:

http://www.eaa-online.org/members/letter.cfm

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Repositioning financial control in a UK restaurant

chain, special issue of Management Research News (2002) 25(8/9/10) entitled

Organizing/Theorising: Developments in Organization Theory and Practice, pp. 15-17

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The role of management accountants in Britain and

Germany, Management Accounting (May 1999) pp. 42-43

T. Ahrens, “Intergalaktischer” Controllingansatz oder lieber Zahlen, die Verhalten

ändern, Controller Magazin (1997) 22(6) pp. 423-424

T. Ahrens, Management Accounting Studies Guide for the External Programme,

University of London (1997)

Grants

Z. Zakaria, T. Ahrens, S. Mamat, Governance and Control in Government Linked

Companies: Managing Multiple Accountabilities in Practice, Malaysian Ministry of

Education, September 2013-August 2015, $9,162

T. Ahrens, Company directors’ knowledge of insider trading: a contextual analysis,

Securities and Commodities Authority (UAE), March-August 2013

T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Enabling Emiratis to Drive the Knowledge Economy

through Higher Education Governance: A Symbolic Boundaries Approach, Federal

Demographic Council (UAE), October 2011-May 2012, awarded $66,667

T. Ahrens and R. Khalifa, Revising the objectives of corporate governance practices:

A field study of the governance roles of UAE boards of directors, UAEU Research

Competition evaluated by the National Research Foundation, September 2011-August

2014, awarded $202,670

R. Zacca, M. Dayan, and T. Ahrens, Drivers and enablers of innovative start-up

enterprises within the UAE, UAEU Research Competition evaluated by the National

Research Foundation, September 2011-August 2014, awarded c. $200,000

T. Ahrens, Tailoring quality assessments to specific government entities: An

application of the theory of hybrids in governance to the Abu Dhabi Award for

Excellence in Government Performance (ADAEP), College of Business and

Economics, UAEU, July 2011-June 2012, awarded 6 weeks salary

T. Ahrens, The governance of the UAE health system, Oasis Hospital Al Ain, 2011,

$2,725

T. Ahrens and D. Elmes, Centre for Global Energy, pump-priming grant, University

of Warwick Research Development Fund, August 2008-July 2009, awarded £19,341

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T. Ahrens, Integrative characteristics of performance measurement systems, The

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), London, September 2003-

January 2007, awarded £9,890

Joint organiser (with C. S. Chapman and F. Panozzo) of a series of 3 Euroconferences

(Palermo 1997, Cork 1998, Berlin 1999) under the European Commission’s Training

and Mobility for Researchers (TMR) Programme entitled Management Accounting in

Europe: Engaging Research and Practice. Awarded £50,000 under contract number

ERFMMACT970207

T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The training of management accountants in Britain

and Germany, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), London,

April-August 1998, awarded £1,400

T. Ahrens, Uses of management information in a chain restaurant, University of

Southampton Faculty Grant, January-August 1996, awarded £750

Honours & Awards

Keynote speaker, 4th Global Accounting & Organizational Change (GAOC)

Conference, UAE, November 2014

Invited plenary speaker, 2014 Annual Asia-Pacific Management Accounting

Association Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, October

2014

Tawazun Best Paper Award at the Faculty of Business and Economics Summer

Research Presentation, UAEU, 2012

Guest Editor of Journal of Management and Governance, Number 3 / August 2011,

Special Issue: Emerging Issues in Management and Governance, edited by Thomas

Ahrens, Igor Filatotchev and Steen Thomsen

Visiting Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July-August

2011

Organiser and chairman of the symposium “Accounting and Corporate Governance:

The contribution of fieldwork”, 34th Annual Congress of the European Accounting

Association, Rome, Italy, April 2011

Invited plenary speaker, 7th Annual Global Management Accounting Research

Symposium (GMARS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, June 2010

Visiting Professor, Accounting Department, International Islamic University Malaysia

(IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 2010

Faculty member on the Emerging Scholars Colloquium of the 9th Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on Accounting Conference (IPA), Innsbruck, Austria, July 2009

Invited plenary speaker, 23rd Kitan International Symposium on Manufacturing

Management, University of Nagoya, Japan, February 2009

Outstanding Warwick MBA Teacher Award for 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09

WBS Undergraduate Teaching Award 2007/08

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Panel discussant, Emerging Issues in Management and Governance, Journal of

Management and Governance Symposium at the annual meeting of the Accademia

Italiana Di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), Milano, Italy, October 2007

Invited Speaker, Management Accounting Workshop, University of Liverpool, UK,

May 2007

Invited Speaker, Doctoral Seminar, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy, January

2007

Faculty member on the 3rd Doctoral Summer School in Management Accounting,

Jointly organized by the University of Siena, Manchester Business School and the

European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change

(ENROAC), Siena, Italy, July 2006

Faculty member on the Emerging Scholars Colloquium of the 8th Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on Accounting Conference (IPA), Cardiff, UK, July 2006

Visiting Researcher, Örebro University, Sweden, November 2005

Invited plenary speaker, first joint workshop of the Management Control Association

(MCA) and the European Network for Research on Organisational and Accounting

Change (ENROAC), University of Antwerp, Belgium, April 2005

Invited research seminar, Monash University, Australia, July 2004

Invited Speaker, Seminar on Organisational Ethnography, Ca’ Foscari University

Venice, Italy, May 2004

Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan, September 2003

Runner-up for the David Solomons Prize for best paper in Management Accounting

Research 2002

Visiting Professor, Finnish Academy for Graduate Studies in Management

Accounting, May 2002

Polakos and Alongi Visiting Scholar, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA,

January 2002

Doctoral Supervision

Alyazia Alkuwaiti, doctoral advisory committee member UAEU, The impact of the

board of directors and other governance mechanisms on the performance and risk of

UAE listed firms, 2014-

Suaniza Binti Mamat, first supervisor WBS, The impact of strategic alliances on

management control systems: a case study of a Malaysian company, 2008-2012

Zamzulaila Zakaria, first supervisor WBS, Accountability and cultural practices in a

Malaysian pharmaceutical company, 2007-2011

Laurence Ferry, first supervisor WBS, Performance measurement in local

government, 2006-2011 (part-time student)

Helen Rogers, second supervisor WBS, Transfer pricing and taxation, 2005-2010

(part-time student)

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Lectures and PhD Seminars

Fundamentals of Cost and Management Accounting, BSc second year core course,

UAEU, 2013-

Cost and Managerial Accounting, BSc third year core course, UAEU, 2011-

Advanced Management Accounting, BSc final year option, UAEU, 2010-2011, 2013-

Philosophy of Social Research, DBA core course, UAEU, 2011-2013

Qualitative Research Methods, DBA core course, UAEU, 2011-2014

Business Research, MBA elective, 2012-2014

Accounting for Senior Managers, MBA core course, UAEU, 2011

Methodology & Methods of Research, MBA Project & Dissertation Workshop, WBS,

2007

Management Accounting, MBA elective, WBS, 2006-2009

Accounting and Financial Management, MBA core module, WBS, 2006

Cost Management Systems, 3rd year BSc elective, WBS, 2005-2009

Management Accounting and Control, MSc elective, LSE, 2000-2004, 2006

Advanced Managerial Accounting (5 week module on performance measurement and

organisation), 3rd year BSc elective, LSE, 1997-2003

Elements of Accounting and Finance, 1st year BSc core module, LSE (650 students

registered) 1999-2005

Interpretive case study research in management accounting, 3 day doctoral seminar,

The Finnish Academy for Graduate Studies in Management Accounting, May 2002

Financial Reporting, MBA, City University Business School, March-May 2000

Financial Reporting and Management, MSc elective, LSE 1996-1999

Advanced Accounting , Chevening Scholarship Course for Young Indian Bankers,

LSE Continuing Education Unit, May/June 1997

Management Accounting I, MSc core module, University of Southampton, 1995-

January 1997

Management Information II, 2nd year BSc module, University of Southampton, 1995-

1996

Accounting and Finance 1, 1st year undergraduate, Mikkeli Polytechnic, Finland,

March 1996

Professional Service

Editorial boards (see above)

Occasional reviewer for Abacus; Accounting, Audit & Accountability Journal;

Behavioral Research in Accounting; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Human

Relations; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Economic and

Administrative Sciences; Journal of Management Accounting Research; Organization

Studies; Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management; and for research

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proposals and publications of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and

Wales (ICAEW) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Management Accounting

Association, since 2013

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Accounting,

Governance and Sustainability (CAGS) at the University of South Australia, since

2011

Member of the Standing Scientific Committee for the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th Annual

Congresses of the European Accounting Association in Turku (2009), Istanbul (2010),

and Rome (2011) with responsibility for research presentations in Accounting

Education, Accounting History, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Public Sector

and Not-for-profit Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting, and Taxation

and Accounting

Organised and chaired a symposium entitled “Accounting and Corporate Governance:

The contribution of fieldwork” at the European Accounting Association Conference,

Rome, April 2011

Grant reviewer for the UAE’s National Research Foundation, 2009

Member of the Scientific Committee for the 29th and 30th Annual Congress of the

European Accounting Association, Dublin (2006) and Lisbon (2007)

Co-chair (with A. Hansen and M. Messner) of the accounting track at the European

Academy of Management conference, Paris, May 2007

Organised and chaired a one-day workshop on field research in accounting with 24

national and international participants at WBS, July 2006

External Examiner for the MBA Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong,

2006-2009

Advisor to the UK National Audit Office on financial reporting and cost control at the

BBC, November 2005

External Examiner for Accounting, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004-2008

Member of the Programme Development Group of the European Institute for

Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels (EIASM), 1999-2003

Co-chair (with C. S. Chapman and F. Panozzo) of a series of 3 Euroconferences

(Palermo 1997, Cork 1998, Berlin 1999) entitled Management Accounting in Europe:

Engaging Research and Practice for young accounting scholars.

Administration—UAEU

Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre, since 2010

Member of the University Promotion Advisory Group, since 2011

Member of the Faculty Panel to interview the new Dean, May 2014

Member of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the College of Business and Economics,

since 2013

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Member of the DBA Admissions Committee of the College of Business and

Economics, since 2010

Member of the DBA Steering Committee of the College of Business and Economics,

since 2012

Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the College of Business and

Economics, since 2010

Chairman of the Professional Cooperation and Faculty Affairs Committee of the

Department of Accounting, since 2013

Member of the Promotions Committee of the Department of Accounting, since 2013

Member of the Curriculum Development and Maintenance Committee of the

Department of Accounting, since 2013

Student advisor for undergraduate students, since 2013

Member of the Promotions Committee of the College of Business and Economics,

2010-2013

Chairman of the Promotions Committee of the Department of Accounting, 2010-2012

Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Accounting, 2010-2012

Member of the Professional Cooperation and Faculty Affairs Committee of the

Department of Accounting, 2010-2012

Coordinator for the suite of undergraduate management accounting courses, 2011-

2012

Administration—WBS

Associate Dean (MBA), 2006-2009, with responsibility for all postgraduate general

management programmes, total revenue c. £10 million in 2008/09, with over 40

administrators (FTE), made up of full-time MBA, executive MBA, distance learning

MBA, IBM corporate in-house MBA, Global Energy MBA, MSc Management.

Major achievements:

i. Designed and launched worldwide first general management MBA for

the energy industry (The Warwick Global Energy MBA)

ii. Implemented teacher training programme and significantly improved

teaching quality

iii. Championed use of blended learning and prepared launch of blended

learning MSc Management

iv. Enhanced MBA rankings

Member of the Social Studies Faculty Board, 2007

Member of the WBS Academic Policy Committee, 2006-2009

Member of the WBS International Strategy Group, 2006-2008

Member of the WBS Research Committee, 2005-2007

Member of the WBS Doctoral Programme Committee, 2006

Teaching planning for the Accounting Group, 2005/06

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Professional exemptions liaison with CIMA, 2005

Convenor of the Accounting Research Meetings, 2005-2007

Administration—LSE

Chairman of the Sub-board of Examiners BSc Accounting and Finance, 1999-2004

Chairman of the Sub-board of Examiners Diploma Accounting and Finance, 1999-

2002

Chairman of the BSc Review Panel of the Department of Accounting and Finance,

2001-2004

Member of the MSc Review Panel of the Department of Accounting and Finance,

2001/02

Member of the LSE Research Committee, 1998-2001

Undergraduate admissions tutor for the Department of Accounting and Finance, 1997-

1999

Undergraduate admissions selector for the Department of Accounting and Finance,

1996-1999

Chief Examiner for management accounting on the LSE External Degree Programme,

1998/99

Thomas Ahrens, June 2014