Strathclyde Business School's guest lecture programme

A number of guest lectures are organised throughout the MBA year to appeal to MBA students, and also to students from other postgraduate business courses. This year, guest lecturers included:

• Gordon McAlpine 'Secret Millionaire' and CEO, The Sales Club
• Kim Warren, strategy expert and professor at London Business School
• Mark Anderson, President, Strategy & Business Development, Pearson International
• Martin O'Grady, CFO, Orient Express
• Sir Christoper Evans, leading medical sciences entrepreneur, hosted by Sir Tom Hunter, as part of the New Enlightenment at Strathclyde lecture series
• Mick Elliott, Chief Executive, RSNO
• David Knott, Head of Enterprise Architecture at Lloyds TSB
• Blair Jenkins OBE, former Head of News and Current Affairs at both BBC Scotland and Scottish Television
• Charan Gill, entrepreneur, founder of Ashoka chain of restaurants

Other events included:

• Cranfield Trust networking event involving representatives from Cranfield Trust and other charitable bodies
• AMBA Cluster event held at SBS: Dave Pratt, long-term entrepreneur within the energy sector and current Chairman of AiM listed Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc; Alex Barton: former student entrepreneur and founder of Student Designers; and Mamta Singhal, former finalist of AMBA Student of the Year, and Senior Executive in Innovation and Enterprise with Scottish Enterprise, and Dr Jonathan Levie, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship