Professor Peter McKiernan, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, has been awarded the Cooper Medal for Outstanding Contribution and Leadership at the British Academy of Management.
The Cooper Medal was inaugurated in 2018 and named in honour of the Academy’s founding president, Professor Sir Cary Cooper. The Medal is awarded for a ‘sustained and significant contribution to the development of the Academy by a member’.
Professor McKiernan was nominated for his leadership of the academic community as a researcher, for university administration including Head of Departments and Dean of School, as twice elected Dean of the BAM Fellows College and through his work with the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) initiative which he co-founded in 2016.
The Cooper Medal and Certificate were presented at the BAM annual conference in Manchester on September 1. In 2015, Peter received BAM’s Lifetime Achievement Award and, in 2013, he was the Central and Eastern European Management Academy’s Institutional Champion of the Year. Peter is a past President and, currently, Dean of Fellows of the European Academy of Management.
He said, “I am very grateful to the BAM officials and membership for this huge honour. The Cooper Medal is something we never dream of winning so its award comes as a surprise. For many achievements, there has been a strong team effort and so my gratitude goes out to all colleagues who have helped support me along the journey.”